ABSTRACT

As the complexity and degrees of crimes widen, system using new technology will have to be utilized to aid lawyers etc to fight this tends. Justice is to deal with somebody properly in an appropriate manner, fair and right treatment. Everybody earnestly desires it in all cases, court proceedings pertaining justice requires almost accuracy. The aim behind the design of this software it to model a computerized documentation system of court proceedings in handling cases.

CHAPTER ONE 1.1 INTRODUCTION

In a bid to solve their problems and make life less cumbersome have been evolving from one idea to another. They have tried many way to actualize their dreams. But unfortunately, there are little or no progress because they did not havE the technologies to carry them through for technologically and scientifically they were but full of crude ideas.

Technological developments penetrates through the century and enable man to do many things without much problem. Suffice it to say that it is the quest to make life better and less cumbersome that the Almighty technological too - computer ever know and seen by man enters. It is reshaping our world and will go on reshaping it.

.5 AIM AND OBJECTIVES

The aim and objective of the study is to expose all the lapses of the existing manual system of court proceeding in legal Aid Council and for the program to be able to store a very large volume of court proceeding and for easy access and retrieval of information needed for a case.

1.6 SCOPE

This work covers only the legal aspect of the Legal Council Enugu. Hence, the administration files are not considered.

1.7 LIMITATIONS

Many factors have limited this, some of these factors are:

TIME: The time allocated to research work for this study was greatly constrained due to intense academic activities involving the researcher.

FINANCE: The major constraints for this study occurred in the form of inadequate funds. The present high cost of material, access to a personal computer unit for running and debugging of the application program, transportation expenses to an from the site of computer etc militated against the smooth and easy advancement of the work..

ASSUMPTIONS: I assume that the documentation of system of court proceedings input specification of Legal Aid Council is the same for all legal industries.

1.8 DEFINITION OF TERMS

COMPUTER: An electronic device that input data, process it, and bring it out as an information.

FILE: It is collection of related data or records.

PROGRAM: Series of instruction to the computer.

SOFTWARE: This is a general term to describe all the programs which may be used to run a computer system, together with the associated documents.

HARDWARE: This describes the physical devices, which makes up the computer system.

DATA: this is any representation of facts that can be fed into the computer for processing.

INDEX BOOK: A documentation book written in index format used to process a law report

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A COMPUTERIZED DOCUMENTATION SYSTEM OF COURT PROCEEDINGS

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