ABSTRACT
This study
was on a survey of record of management practices in Abia State Judiciary. It
investigated the records management practices in terms ofrecord, creation,
storage, retrieval, policies and problems associated with records management in
the judiciary. The survey design was usedfor the study, with the questionnaire
as the instrumentfir data collection. The population ofthe study was (30)
thirty records management staff ofthe judiciary, the method ofanalysis was the
use ofdescriptive statistical tables andpercentage to analyze and present. The
findings revealed that wooding system offilling was adopted, due to the fact
that it is commonly used in the judiciary. Records ofgeneral administration is
the most important record kept by the staff of Abia State judiciary, the study
also recommends that there should be adequate accommodation, funding for
records management and purchase of more modern equipments. The research
conclude that the type ofrecords management and management practices in terms offilling
system, recordsformat, storage andpresentation, security and disposal are
almost the same, but some records management adopted by each court
ofthejudiciary is dependent on the availablefunds and management practices.
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