ABSTRACT
Case Processing and Adjudication, and Corrections and Other Post-trial Actions are the two broad components on the ingredients of a reconstructed postcolonial law and justice system. Official case processing and adjudication in contemporary Nigeria are mainly English system-based. Thus, the postcolonial Nigerian judicial system lacks many crucial elements of reconstructed law and justice. The chapter focuses on strengthening the argument that credible, effective, and efficient case processing and adjudication components of a reconstructed law and justice system should be predicated mainly on an indigenous-based, rather than foreign-based, judiciary. The fundamentally important indigenous ingredients of justice processing and adjudication are absent in Nigeria's official judiciary. This chapter articulates the most serious obstacles to effective and efficient justice in the country regarding the two areas of the criminal justice process. Altogether, 12 case processing and adjudication issues along with seven post-conviction problems were identified and explained, and solutions to the problems were proffered.
