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Dr. Kalpeshkumar L Gupta
Associate Professor of Law
Parul University, Vadodara
May 17, 2021
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Legal Aid in India:
Issues & Challenges
Webinar Organised by
Sabarmati University, Ahmedabad
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1. Legal Aid?
2. Kind of work in legal aid done
3. Issues and Challenges
4. What more can be done in legal aid ?
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Clinical Legal Education, Law School & Legal Aid
Access of Justice
 Constitutional Goals
 Preamble – Justice, Liberty & Equality
 Article 14 Equality before law and equal protection of law
 Article 21 – Just, Fair & Reasonable Procedure established by due
process of law
 Article 22(1) Right counsel of own choice
 Article 39A – Equal Justice and Free Legal Aid
 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 Order XXXIII
 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 304 (Legal aid to accused at
State expense in certain cases.)
 Advocates Act, 1961, Section 9A (Legal Aid Committee)
Clinical Legal education Law schools and Legal Aid (Law). MOOC on Access to Justice available at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLYzG5UPdJA accessed on April 5, 2019
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Goal of Legal Education
“Article 39A emphasizes that free legal service is an
inalienable element of 'reasonable, fair and just'
procedure; for without it a person suffering from
economic or other disabilities would be deprived of
the opportunity for securing justice. The right to free
legal services is, therefore, clearly an essential
ingredient of 'reasonable, fair and just’ procedure for
a person accused of an offence and it must be held
implicit in the guarantee of Article 21.”
- Justice P N Bhagwati in the case of Hussainara Khatoon v/s. State of Bihar (1979)
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Goal of Legal Education
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Component of Legal Aid
Legal Representation
Legal Advice
Legal Awareness
Paralegal Services
Public Interest Litigation
Promoting Alternate Dispute Resolution
Law Reform
Clinical Legal education Law schools and Legal Aid (Law). MOOC on Access to Justice available at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLYzG5UPdJA accessed on April 5, 2019
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Why to involve Law Students?
Legal Aid at much lower cost
Teaching professional responsibility
Ideal platform for students to learn practical skills
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Clinical Legal Education
Clinical Legal Education is a progressive educational ideology
and pedagogy that is most often implemented through university
programs. Clinics are interactive, hands-on classrooms that
promote learning by doing.
Why Clinical Legal Education?
“Clinical Legal Education (CLE) programs provide pro bono
services to the community while educating the next generation of
social justice, pro bono champions.”
Source :- https://www.babseacle.org/clinical-legal-education/
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Clinical Legal Education
The CLE Solution
CLE educates people on their legal rights and how to access them,
serves the needs of the community, and provides pro bono services to
the disadvantaged.
CLE builds bridges between law schools, civil society, government,
non-governmental organizations and communities that would otherwise
not have access to legal assistance.
CLE fosters professional ethics and teaches students practical skills
for tomorrow, while helping marginalized communities today.
Source :- https://www.babseacle.org/clinical-legal-education/
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Rule 11. Legal Aid Centre:
Each institution shall establish and run a Legal Aid Clinic under the supervision
of a Senior Faculty Member who may administer the Clinic run by the Final year
students of the Institution in cooperation with the Legal Aid Authorities with list
of voluntary lawyers and other Non-Government Organizations engaged in this
regard in the locality generally from which the student community of the
Institution, hail from.
Rules of Legal Education - 2008
In 1997 that the Bar Council of India (BCI) made Legal Aid a compulsory practical
paper to be taught in law colleges all over the country
Is Legal Aid is Compulsory in Law Schools?
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Legal Services
Authorities Act, 1987
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Legal Services
Authorities Act, 1987
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Issues
1. Lack of Clinical Legal Education
2. Lack of dedicated legal aid counsels
3. Budget constraints
4. No idea about legal aid activities
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Case 1
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A Study of Law School Based Legal Services Clinics (2011)*
*http://www.in.undp.org/content/india/en/home/library/democratic_governance/a_study_of_law_schoolb
asedlegalservicesclinics.html
- Access to Justice Project on “Study of the Law School
based Legal Service Clinics” was undertaken in seven
States: Orissa, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Uttar
Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan. Total 39 Law
Schools covered.
- The study was intended to understand the functioning of
legal aid cells established in these states by the law colleges
and suggests ways and means to improve their functioning
to act as effective instruments of access to justice.
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*http://www.in.undp.org/content/india/en/home/library/democratic_governance/a_study_of_law_schoolb
asedlegalservicesclinics.html
Findings
- 82% of the colleges have designated faculty to conduct legal aid
activity. But only a miniscule of them provides the facility of
academic credit to the faculty in terms of workload/lecture hours
and for the students in terms of grades or marks. This has
considerably reduced the enthusiasm in the conductance of legal
aid activity and many often consider them burdensome or
additional work in the process the cause of legal aid is
substantially dampened.
- Few activities on legal awareness i.e. public talk
- Few were having collaboration with NGOs and other local
bodies
A Study of Law School Based Legal Services Clinics (2011)*
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*http://www.in.undp.org/content/india/en/home/library/democratic_governance/a_study_of_law_schoolb
asedlegalservicesclinics.html
Reasons for ineffective work
1. Lack of financial support
2. Restriction on faculty to practice
3. Absence of academic credit for students
4. Legal aid not being part of the work load for faculty
5. Lack of involvement of the bar
6. Lack of infrastructural facilities
7. Lack of involvement of judiciary
8. Restriction on students
9. No training of faculty
10. Lack of directive from BCI
11. Absence of designated full time faculty
12. Poor student quality
13. Lack of trained faculty
14. Part time students
A Study of Law School Based Legal Services Clinics (2011)*
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*http://www.in.undp.org/content/india/en/home/library/democratic_governance/a_study_of_law_schoolb
asedlegalservicesclinics.html
Few Recommendations for strengthening legal aid centres
1. Faculty designated for Legal Aid need training and the students need to be
trained in several skills that are required for organizing legal aid activities. Hence, a
Training of Trainers Program (TOT) needs to be organized in each State. These
programs need to be designed and conducted by expert faculty in Clinical
Methodology. A nodal agency which is actually involved in Legal Aid may be
identified for conducting training programs for the faculty of Law Schools in the
project States.
2. Identifying 5 potential Law Schools from each State to strengthen their Clinics.
Total 35 faculties from the identified Law Schools from seven States should be
trained in Legal Aid. Two week intensive training program should be conducted to
train these faculty members. These trained faculty members would strengthen the
Clinics in their respective Colleges. Within a year, 35 Clinics in seven States would
be functional.
A Study of Law School Based Legal Services Clinics (2011)*
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*http://www.in.undp.org/content/india/en/home/library/democratic_governance/a_study_of_law_schoolb
asedlegalservicesclinics.html
Few Recommendations for strengthening legal aid centres
3. This activity may be continued for five years and within five years there would be
at least 25 Law Schools in each State with fully functional Clinics. The nodal agency
would be monitoring the progress of the Clinics. A quarterly newsletter showcasing
the activities carried by the selected Law School Clinics could be brought out.
4. A proper networking would be developed among these Clinics and at the end of
the year a Conference on Legal Aid Clinics should be organized. The purpose of
this Conference would be to involve students and faculty with other stake holders
on a single platform to share the experiences and best practices among the Law
Schools.
5. Identifying expert Clinical faculty to prepare Training Manuals on activities of
Legal Aid.
A Study of Law School Based Legal Services Clinics (2011)*
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*http://www.in.undp.org/content/india/en/home/library/democratic_governance/a_study_of_law_schoolb
asedlegalservicesclinics.html
Few Recommendations for strengthening legal aid centres
6. Continue the same initiation in all other States.
7. Create a website for sharing the concerns and experiences.
A Study of Law School Based Legal Services Clinics (2011)*
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Case 2
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Impact of Competency & Commitment of the Legal Aid
Counsels of the Legal Aid System in the City of Delhi*
*Conducted Empirical Research under the UGC Research Award in 2014 by Prof. Jeet Singh Mann, NLU Delhi
Samples
- 702 beneficiaries of legal aid services
- 173 judicial officers
- 11 member secretaries Delhi Legal Services Authorities
- 174 Legal Aid Counsels
- 1039 women at Special Courts and Family courts
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Impact of Competency & Commitment of the Legal Aid
Counsels of the Legal Aid System in the City of Delhi*
*Conducted Empirical Research under the UGC Research Award in 2014 by Prof. Jeet Singh Mann, NLU Delhi
Findings
- 98% of the beneficiaries opted for free legal services on the ground
that they had no resources to engage paid private counsels for their
litigation.
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Impact of Competency & Commitment of the Legal Aid
Counsels of the Legal Aid System in the City of Delhi*
*Conducted Empirical Research under the UGC Research Award in 2014 by Prof. Jeet Singh Mann, NLU Delhi
Findings
- 54.5% of the regulators find that the LACs join legal aid services for
promoting and supporting the causes of the beneficiaries of the legal
aid services.
- 9.1% regulators felt that LACs join legal aid services for employment
opportunities.
- Another 36.4% regulators were of the considered views that LACs
joins legal aid services to gain experiences in courts. The moment the
LACs get some exposure and become confident at practice in courts,
they depart from the legal aid institutions. As per the views of those
regulators respondents, LACs are allowed to practice and experiment at
the cost of poor beneficiaries.
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Impact of Competency & Commitment of the Legal Aid
Counsels of the Legal Aid System in the City of Delhi*
*Conducted Empirical Research under the UGC Research Award in 2014 by Prof. Jeet Singh Mann, NLU Delhi
Findings
- Lack of devotion is probably due to the nature of engagement of the
LACs and the better quantum of honorarium involved in their private
practice as compared to legal aid services.
- It is also seen that the LACs are piece rated employees, although not in
strict sense, because they are involved and paid on the basis of allotted
cases, where honorarium in stages is paid, without any usual payment
like a regular employee. In the real sense, they are not empanelled for
the full-time operation of the legal aid services. This can be deducted
from the fact that 29.3% LAC respondents are accessible for the free
legal aid litigation on a part time basis only.
- More than 57.5% of the LACs do not have full time availability,
because of ad-hoc empanelment by the DLSA
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Impact of Competency & Commitment of the Legal Aid
Counsels of the Legal Aid System in the City of Delhi*
*Conducted Empirical Research under the UGC Research Award in 2014 by Prof. Jeet Singh Mann, NLU Delhi
Findings
- 37% of the beneficiary respondent, the LACs demanded money for providing
legal aid services to the beneficiaries.
- 56.4% beneficiaries either did not pay or were reluctant to disclose.
- 90.9% of the regulators have acknowledged that complaints from the
beneficiaries regarding LACs demanding money for defending the claims of the
beneficiaries have regularly been received at the DLSAs
- About 2.3% the LACs have accepted that they demanded money from the
beneficiaries for the service rendered. As per these respondents, a LAC is
required to make initial payment for the relevant documents & charges and the
DLSAs make no advance payment at the time of allocation of cases to the
LACs. After that, bills and forms submitted to the DLSAs for claiming
honorarium in stages.
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Impact of Competency & Commitment of the Legal Aid
Counsels of the Legal Aid System in the City of Delhi*
*Conducted Empirical Research under the UGC Research Award in 2014 by Prof. Jeet Singh Mann, NLU Delhi
Findings
Parameters – Quality of arguments, quality of articulation and quality of drafting
- 72.8% regulators who are responsible for the empanelment of the LACs, have
assessed that most of the LACs are above average and none below average in
their argument skills
- 55.9% of the judicial officers were of the view that the quality of argument
skills of the LACs is below average
- 21.7% of the respondents in the same category felt that the LACs are just
average in their skills
- As per 61.8% judicial officer, LACs were of just average in the event of
articulation skill. Whereas around 18.5% of the judges have found it to be
below average.
- 54.5% of the regulators are of the opinion that LACs are good at the drafting,
another 45.5% felt the drafting skills of the LACs are just fair or average.
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Impact of Competency & Commitment of the Legal Aid
Counsels of the Legal Aid System in the City of Delhi*
*Conducted Empirical Research under the UGC Research Award in 2014 by Prof. Jeet Singh Mann, NLU Delhi
Findings
- Around 49.7% of the judicial officers and 54.5% regulators indicate that
majority of the LACs are of average professional skills.
- Around 26.1% judicial officers were of the considered appraisal that overall
professional skills of the LACs are below satisfaction level.
- Assessment of the find that LACs were not competent to handle serious
crimes involving a matter of life and death. As per the considerate views of
89.30% of the judicial officers, the LACs are never engaged in serious
crimes such as rape, murder, culpable homicide not amounting to murder,
narcotics and other major offences.
- Such senior judicial officers always consider the appointment of amicus
curiae, generally experienced legal practitioners of competency known to
the judicial officers, are engaged to protect the interest of poor people, who
are not in a position to hire a counsel at own.
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Impact of Competency & Commitment of the Legal Aid
Counsels of the Legal Aid System in the City of Delhi*
*Conducted Empirical Research under the UGC Research Award in 2014 by Prof. Jeet Singh Mann, NLU Delhi
Findings
- As per opinion of 61.8% judicial officers, the LACs are just average in case of
arguments skills.
- 75.1% judicial officer opined that the LACs are partly committed to the causes
of legal aid services. These judicial officers found that majority of the LACs are
occupied with a private practice and hardly interested in the protection of the
interests of the beneficiaries.
- 37.3% of the beneficiary expressed that LACs are not devoted the services of
legal aid system. Another 18.5% beneficiaries considered that LACs were not at
all committed.
- Overall aspects, 69.5% of the respondents, infers that LACs are not entirely
committed and devoted to the causes of beneficiaries.
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Impact of Competency & Commitment of the Legal Aid
Counsels of the Legal Aid System in the City of Delhi*
*Conducted Empirical Research under the UGC Research Award in 2014 by Prof. Jeet Singh Mann, NLU Delhi
Findings
- 95% of the women respondent at family courts and special courts
because of low commitment and competency of the LACs preferred
paid service of private legal practitioners over free legal aid services of
legal aid counsels in Delhi.
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Impact of Competency & Commitment of the Legal Aid
Counsels of the Legal Aid System in the City of Delhi*
*Conducted Empirical Research under the UGC Research Award in 2014 by Prof. Jeet Singh Mann, NLU Delhi
Findings
- Monitoring Committee hardly created by legal services authorities in 11
courts in Delhi
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Impact of Competency & Commitment of the Legal Aid
Counsels of the Legal Aid System in the City of Delhi*
*Conducted Empirical Research under the UGC Research Award in 2014 by Prof. Jeet Singh Mann, NLU Delhi
Findings
- Around 20.2% judicial officers were also of the opinion that lack of
accountability of the LACs is one of main reasons for the dilapidated
state of affairs of the commitments of the LACs.
- The DSLSA or the Bar Council of Delhi or Bar Council of India has
hardly punished any LAC proportionately for demanding money from
beneficiaries, which is grave misconduct on the part of any legal
practitioners.
- Further, the LACs may resign or refuse to entertain the allotted case or
withdraw at any point in time from the list of empanelment.
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Impact of Competency & Commitment of the Legal Aid
Counsels of the Legal Aid System in the City of Delhi*
*Conducted Empirical Research under the UGC Research Award in 2014 by Prof. Jeet Singh Mann, NLU Delhi
Recommendations
- Creation of full time monitoring committee.
- Rigorous empanelment process and incentivisation.
- Introduction of a system of feedbacks to assess the commitment and
competency of the LACs.
- Punishment for the premature withdrawal or rejection for the legal aid
services.
- Maintenance of records.
- Code of Professional Conducts for the LACs.
- Recognition of the services of the LACs for the appointments and other
benefits.
- Creation of full time empanelment on tenure basis of the LACs.
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Case 3
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Cross Examination Is Not Child's Play, Purpose of Legal
Aid Is Not to Provide Platform for Young Lawyers: Gujarat
HC*
Without mincing words, the Gujarat High Court has termed the system of
providing legal aid to the poor litigants as 'a farce.' This harsh observation
was made by the division bench comprising Justice J B Pardiwala and
Justice A C Rao in a judgement setting aside the death penalty awarded to
a woman for double murder.
The court noted that it was on account of poverty and being a helpless girl
just 19 years of age that accused could not engage a seasoned, well-
experienced lawyer for trial and instead had to depend on a junior lawyer
who was not sufficiently experienced to conduct a trial.
Legal aid is a farce: Gujarat HC**
**https://www.thehansindia.com/news/national/legal-aid-is-a-farce-gujarat-hc--
515010?fbclid=IwAR0RP9VIMW6sHuUmaMmnIJQTl4UwJrbAXjyCT3V27pG1P83CjwgXRJ4E5UQ
*https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/purpose-of-legal-aid-is-not-to-provide-platform-for-young-lawyers-
143676?fbclid=IwAR001hHDVXhP5_vjvLJdoi9VdVwD8jiQGp_O0VLuC8krqcwZ3SvCYIoH_Rs
State of Gujarat v/s. Manjuben (Guj HC, 18/03/2019)
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The Way Forward
1. More emphasis on clinical legal education
2. Dedicated legal aid counsels to be deployed by
legal service authorities
3. Definition of legal aid to be expanded in Legal
Service Authority
4. Scope of Legal Aid to be expanded
5. Coordination between law colleges, ngos, civil
societies
6. Innovation in legal aid activities
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The Way Forward
Innovation in legal aid activities
HOW ?
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Legal Startups
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http://probono-india.in/
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http://www.tele-law.in/
Launched in April 20, 2017
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S.No States No. of
CSCs
1 Assam 450
2 Arunachal Pradesh 29
3 Bihar 500
4 Jammu & Kashmir 150
5 Meghalaya 42
6 Manipur 19
7 Mizoram 12
8 Nagaland 48
9 Sikkim 10
10 Tripura 40
11 Uttar Pradesh 500
Total 1800
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Launched in February 19, 2019
This mobile application will enable the PLVs to perform on field pre – registration
of cases with a facility to seek appointment from the Panel lawyer on preferred
date and time, in coordination with Village Level entrepreneur (VLE) at the CSC.
The application will benefit 73,000 PLVs of National Legal Service Authority and
State Legal Services Authorities (SLSA) in the country who will be associated under
Tele-Law service.
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http://www.probono-doj.in
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http://www.probono-doj.in
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Legal Aid in India: Issues & Challenges

  • 1. Dr. Kalpeshkumar L Gupta Associate Professor of Law Parul University, Vadodara May 17, 2021 1 Legal Aid in India: Issues & Challenges Webinar Organised by Sabarmati University, Ahmedabad
  • 2. 2 1. Legal Aid? 2. Kind of work in legal aid done 3. Issues and Challenges 4. What more can be done in legal aid ?
  • 3. 3 Clinical Legal Education, Law School & Legal Aid Access of Justice  Constitutional Goals  Preamble – Justice, Liberty & Equality  Article 14 Equality before law and equal protection of law  Article 21 – Just, Fair & Reasonable Procedure established by due process of law  Article 22(1) Right counsel of own choice  Article 39A – Equal Justice and Free Legal Aid  Civil Procedure Code, 1908 Order XXXIII  Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 304 (Legal aid to accused at State expense in certain cases.)  Advocates Act, 1961, Section 9A (Legal Aid Committee) Clinical Legal education Law schools and Legal Aid (Law). MOOC on Access to Justice available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLYzG5UPdJA accessed on April 5, 2019
  • 4. 4 Goal of Legal Education “Article 39A emphasizes that free legal service is an inalienable element of 'reasonable, fair and just' procedure; for without it a person suffering from economic or other disabilities would be deprived of the opportunity for securing justice. The right to free legal services is, therefore, clearly an essential ingredient of 'reasonable, fair and just’ procedure for a person accused of an offence and it must be held implicit in the guarantee of Article 21.” - Justice P N Bhagwati in the case of Hussainara Khatoon v/s. State of Bihar (1979)
  • 5. 5 Goal of Legal Education
  • 6. 6 Component of Legal Aid Legal Representation Legal Advice Legal Awareness Paralegal Services Public Interest Litigation Promoting Alternate Dispute Resolution Law Reform Clinical Legal education Law schools and Legal Aid (Law). MOOC on Access to Justice available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLYzG5UPdJA accessed on April 5, 2019
  • 7. 7 Why to involve Law Students? Legal Aid at much lower cost Teaching professional responsibility Ideal platform for students to learn practical skills
  • 8. 8 Clinical Legal Education Clinical Legal Education is a progressive educational ideology and pedagogy that is most often implemented through university programs. Clinics are interactive, hands-on classrooms that promote learning by doing. Why Clinical Legal Education? “Clinical Legal Education (CLE) programs provide pro bono services to the community while educating the next generation of social justice, pro bono champions.” Source :- https://www.babseacle.org/clinical-legal-education/
  • 9. 9 Clinical Legal Education The CLE Solution CLE educates people on their legal rights and how to access them, serves the needs of the community, and provides pro bono services to the disadvantaged. CLE builds bridges between law schools, civil society, government, non-governmental organizations and communities that would otherwise not have access to legal assistance. CLE fosters professional ethics and teaches students practical skills for tomorrow, while helping marginalized communities today. Source :- https://www.babseacle.org/clinical-legal-education/
  • 10. 10 Rule 11. Legal Aid Centre: Each institution shall establish and run a Legal Aid Clinic under the supervision of a Senior Faculty Member who may administer the Clinic run by the Final year students of the Institution in cooperation with the Legal Aid Authorities with list of voluntary lawyers and other Non-Government Organizations engaged in this regard in the locality generally from which the student community of the Institution, hail from. Rules of Legal Education - 2008 In 1997 that the Bar Council of India (BCI) made Legal Aid a compulsory practical paper to be taught in law colleges all over the country Is Legal Aid is Compulsory in Law Schools?
  • 11. 11
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  • 15. 15 Issues 1. Lack of Clinical Legal Education 2. Lack of dedicated legal aid counsels 3. Budget constraints 4. No idea about legal aid activities
  • 17. 17 A Study of Law School Based Legal Services Clinics (2011)* *http://www.in.undp.org/content/india/en/home/library/democratic_governance/a_study_of_law_schoolb asedlegalservicesclinics.html - Access to Justice Project on “Study of the Law School based Legal Service Clinics” was undertaken in seven States: Orissa, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan. Total 39 Law Schools covered. - The study was intended to understand the functioning of legal aid cells established in these states by the law colleges and suggests ways and means to improve their functioning to act as effective instruments of access to justice.
  • 18. 18 *http://www.in.undp.org/content/india/en/home/library/democratic_governance/a_study_of_law_schoolb asedlegalservicesclinics.html Findings - 82% of the colleges have designated faculty to conduct legal aid activity. But only a miniscule of them provides the facility of academic credit to the faculty in terms of workload/lecture hours and for the students in terms of grades or marks. This has considerably reduced the enthusiasm in the conductance of legal aid activity and many often consider them burdensome or additional work in the process the cause of legal aid is substantially dampened. - Few activities on legal awareness i.e. public talk - Few were having collaboration with NGOs and other local bodies A Study of Law School Based Legal Services Clinics (2011)*
  • 19. 19 *http://www.in.undp.org/content/india/en/home/library/democratic_governance/a_study_of_law_schoolb asedlegalservicesclinics.html Reasons for ineffective work 1. Lack of financial support 2. Restriction on faculty to practice 3. Absence of academic credit for students 4. Legal aid not being part of the work load for faculty 5. Lack of involvement of the bar 6. Lack of infrastructural facilities 7. Lack of involvement of judiciary 8. Restriction on students 9. No training of faculty 10. Lack of directive from BCI 11. Absence of designated full time faculty 12. Poor student quality 13. Lack of trained faculty 14. Part time students A Study of Law School Based Legal Services Clinics (2011)*
  • 20. 20 *http://www.in.undp.org/content/india/en/home/library/democratic_governance/a_study_of_law_schoolb asedlegalservicesclinics.html Few Recommendations for strengthening legal aid centres 1. Faculty designated for Legal Aid need training and the students need to be trained in several skills that are required for organizing legal aid activities. Hence, a Training of Trainers Program (TOT) needs to be organized in each State. These programs need to be designed and conducted by expert faculty in Clinical Methodology. A nodal agency which is actually involved in Legal Aid may be identified for conducting training programs for the faculty of Law Schools in the project States. 2. Identifying 5 potential Law Schools from each State to strengthen their Clinics. Total 35 faculties from the identified Law Schools from seven States should be trained in Legal Aid. Two week intensive training program should be conducted to train these faculty members. These trained faculty members would strengthen the Clinics in their respective Colleges. Within a year, 35 Clinics in seven States would be functional. A Study of Law School Based Legal Services Clinics (2011)*
  • 21. 21 *http://www.in.undp.org/content/india/en/home/library/democratic_governance/a_study_of_law_schoolb asedlegalservicesclinics.html Few Recommendations for strengthening legal aid centres 3. This activity may be continued for five years and within five years there would be at least 25 Law Schools in each State with fully functional Clinics. The nodal agency would be monitoring the progress of the Clinics. A quarterly newsletter showcasing the activities carried by the selected Law School Clinics could be brought out. 4. A proper networking would be developed among these Clinics and at the end of the year a Conference on Legal Aid Clinics should be organized. The purpose of this Conference would be to involve students and faculty with other stake holders on a single platform to share the experiences and best practices among the Law Schools. 5. Identifying expert Clinical faculty to prepare Training Manuals on activities of Legal Aid. A Study of Law School Based Legal Services Clinics (2011)*
  • 22. 22 *http://www.in.undp.org/content/india/en/home/library/democratic_governance/a_study_of_law_schoolb asedlegalservicesclinics.html Few Recommendations for strengthening legal aid centres 6. Continue the same initiation in all other States. 7. Create a website for sharing the concerns and experiences. A Study of Law School Based Legal Services Clinics (2011)*
  • 24. 24 Impact of Competency & Commitment of the Legal Aid Counsels of the Legal Aid System in the City of Delhi* *Conducted Empirical Research under the UGC Research Award in 2014 by Prof. Jeet Singh Mann, NLU Delhi Samples - 702 beneficiaries of legal aid services - 173 judicial officers - 11 member secretaries Delhi Legal Services Authorities - 174 Legal Aid Counsels - 1039 women at Special Courts and Family courts
  • 25. 25 Impact of Competency & Commitment of the Legal Aid Counsels of the Legal Aid System in the City of Delhi* *Conducted Empirical Research under the UGC Research Award in 2014 by Prof. Jeet Singh Mann, NLU Delhi Findings - 98% of the beneficiaries opted for free legal services on the ground that they had no resources to engage paid private counsels for their litigation.
  • 26. 26 Impact of Competency & Commitment of the Legal Aid Counsels of the Legal Aid System in the City of Delhi* *Conducted Empirical Research under the UGC Research Award in 2014 by Prof. Jeet Singh Mann, NLU Delhi Findings - 54.5% of the regulators find that the LACs join legal aid services for promoting and supporting the causes of the beneficiaries of the legal aid services. - 9.1% regulators felt that LACs join legal aid services for employment opportunities. - Another 36.4% regulators were of the considered views that LACs joins legal aid services to gain experiences in courts. The moment the LACs get some exposure and become confident at practice in courts, they depart from the legal aid institutions. As per the views of those regulators respondents, LACs are allowed to practice and experiment at the cost of poor beneficiaries.
  • 27. 27 Impact of Competency & Commitment of the Legal Aid Counsels of the Legal Aid System in the City of Delhi* *Conducted Empirical Research under the UGC Research Award in 2014 by Prof. Jeet Singh Mann, NLU Delhi Findings - Lack of devotion is probably due to the nature of engagement of the LACs and the better quantum of honorarium involved in their private practice as compared to legal aid services. - It is also seen that the LACs are piece rated employees, although not in strict sense, because they are involved and paid on the basis of allotted cases, where honorarium in stages is paid, without any usual payment like a regular employee. In the real sense, they are not empanelled for the full-time operation of the legal aid services. This can be deducted from the fact that 29.3% LAC respondents are accessible for the free legal aid litigation on a part time basis only. - More than 57.5% of the LACs do not have full time availability, because of ad-hoc empanelment by the DLSA
  • 28. 28 Impact of Competency & Commitment of the Legal Aid Counsels of the Legal Aid System in the City of Delhi* *Conducted Empirical Research under the UGC Research Award in 2014 by Prof. Jeet Singh Mann, NLU Delhi Findings - 37% of the beneficiary respondent, the LACs demanded money for providing legal aid services to the beneficiaries. - 56.4% beneficiaries either did not pay or were reluctant to disclose. - 90.9% of the regulators have acknowledged that complaints from the beneficiaries regarding LACs demanding money for defending the claims of the beneficiaries have regularly been received at the DLSAs - About 2.3% the LACs have accepted that they demanded money from the beneficiaries for the service rendered. As per these respondents, a LAC is required to make initial payment for the relevant documents & charges and the DLSAs make no advance payment at the time of allocation of cases to the LACs. After that, bills and forms submitted to the DLSAs for claiming honorarium in stages.
  • 29. 29 Impact of Competency & Commitment of the Legal Aid Counsels of the Legal Aid System in the City of Delhi* *Conducted Empirical Research under the UGC Research Award in 2014 by Prof. Jeet Singh Mann, NLU Delhi Findings Parameters – Quality of arguments, quality of articulation and quality of drafting - 72.8% regulators who are responsible for the empanelment of the LACs, have assessed that most of the LACs are above average and none below average in their argument skills - 55.9% of the judicial officers were of the view that the quality of argument skills of the LACs is below average - 21.7% of the respondents in the same category felt that the LACs are just average in their skills - As per 61.8% judicial officer, LACs were of just average in the event of articulation skill. Whereas around 18.5% of the judges have found it to be below average. - 54.5% of the regulators are of the opinion that LACs are good at the drafting, another 45.5% felt the drafting skills of the LACs are just fair or average.
  • 30. 30 Impact of Competency & Commitment of the Legal Aid Counsels of the Legal Aid System in the City of Delhi* *Conducted Empirical Research under the UGC Research Award in 2014 by Prof. Jeet Singh Mann, NLU Delhi Findings - Around 49.7% of the judicial officers and 54.5% regulators indicate that majority of the LACs are of average professional skills. - Around 26.1% judicial officers were of the considered appraisal that overall professional skills of the LACs are below satisfaction level. - Assessment of the find that LACs were not competent to handle serious crimes involving a matter of life and death. As per the considerate views of 89.30% of the judicial officers, the LACs are never engaged in serious crimes such as rape, murder, culpable homicide not amounting to murder, narcotics and other major offences. - Such senior judicial officers always consider the appointment of amicus curiae, generally experienced legal practitioners of competency known to the judicial officers, are engaged to protect the interest of poor people, who are not in a position to hire a counsel at own.
  • 31. 31 Impact of Competency & Commitment of the Legal Aid Counsels of the Legal Aid System in the City of Delhi* *Conducted Empirical Research under the UGC Research Award in 2014 by Prof. Jeet Singh Mann, NLU Delhi Findings - As per opinion of 61.8% judicial officers, the LACs are just average in case of arguments skills. - 75.1% judicial officer opined that the LACs are partly committed to the causes of legal aid services. These judicial officers found that majority of the LACs are occupied with a private practice and hardly interested in the protection of the interests of the beneficiaries. - 37.3% of the beneficiary expressed that LACs are not devoted the services of legal aid system. Another 18.5% beneficiaries considered that LACs were not at all committed. - Overall aspects, 69.5% of the respondents, infers that LACs are not entirely committed and devoted to the causes of beneficiaries.
  • 32. 32 Impact of Competency & Commitment of the Legal Aid Counsels of the Legal Aid System in the City of Delhi* *Conducted Empirical Research under the UGC Research Award in 2014 by Prof. Jeet Singh Mann, NLU Delhi Findings - 95% of the women respondent at family courts and special courts because of low commitment and competency of the LACs preferred paid service of private legal practitioners over free legal aid services of legal aid counsels in Delhi.
  • 33. 33 Impact of Competency & Commitment of the Legal Aid Counsels of the Legal Aid System in the City of Delhi* *Conducted Empirical Research under the UGC Research Award in 2014 by Prof. Jeet Singh Mann, NLU Delhi Findings - Monitoring Committee hardly created by legal services authorities in 11 courts in Delhi
  • 34. 34 Impact of Competency & Commitment of the Legal Aid Counsels of the Legal Aid System in the City of Delhi* *Conducted Empirical Research under the UGC Research Award in 2014 by Prof. Jeet Singh Mann, NLU Delhi Findings - Around 20.2% judicial officers were also of the opinion that lack of accountability of the LACs is one of main reasons for the dilapidated state of affairs of the commitments of the LACs. - The DSLSA or the Bar Council of Delhi or Bar Council of India has hardly punished any LAC proportionately for demanding money from beneficiaries, which is grave misconduct on the part of any legal practitioners. - Further, the LACs may resign or refuse to entertain the allotted case or withdraw at any point in time from the list of empanelment.
  • 35. 35 Impact of Competency & Commitment of the Legal Aid Counsels of the Legal Aid System in the City of Delhi* *Conducted Empirical Research under the UGC Research Award in 2014 by Prof. Jeet Singh Mann, NLU Delhi Recommendations - Creation of full time monitoring committee. - Rigorous empanelment process and incentivisation. - Introduction of a system of feedbacks to assess the commitment and competency of the LACs. - Punishment for the premature withdrawal or rejection for the legal aid services. - Maintenance of records. - Code of Professional Conducts for the LACs. - Recognition of the services of the LACs for the appointments and other benefits. - Creation of full time empanelment on tenure basis of the LACs.
  • 37. 37 Cross Examination Is Not Child's Play, Purpose of Legal Aid Is Not to Provide Platform for Young Lawyers: Gujarat HC* Without mincing words, the Gujarat High Court has termed the system of providing legal aid to the poor litigants as 'a farce.' This harsh observation was made by the division bench comprising Justice J B Pardiwala and Justice A C Rao in a judgement setting aside the death penalty awarded to a woman for double murder. The court noted that it was on account of poverty and being a helpless girl just 19 years of age that accused could not engage a seasoned, well- experienced lawyer for trial and instead had to depend on a junior lawyer who was not sufficiently experienced to conduct a trial. Legal aid is a farce: Gujarat HC** **https://www.thehansindia.com/news/national/legal-aid-is-a-farce-gujarat-hc-- 515010?fbclid=IwAR0RP9VIMW6sHuUmaMmnIJQTl4UwJrbAXjyCT3V27pG1P83CjwgXRJ4E5UQ *https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/purpose-of-legal-aid-is-not-to-provide-platform-for-young-lawyers- 143676?fbclid=IwAR001hHDVXhP5_vjvLJdoi9VdVwD8jiQGp_O0VLuC8krqcwZ3SvCYIoH_Rs State of Gujarat v/s. Manjuben (Guj HC, 18/03/2019)
  • 38. 38 The Way Forward 1. More emphasis on clinical legal education 2. Dedicated legal aid counsels to be deployed by legal service authorities 3. Definition of legal aid to be expanded in Legal Service Authority 4. Scope of Legal Aid to be expanded 5. Coordination between law colleges, ngos, civil societies 6. Innovation in legal aid activities
  • 39. 39 The Way Forward Innovation in legal aid activities HOW ?
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  • 45. 45 S.No States No. of CSCs 1 Assam 450 2 Arunachal Pradesh 29 3 Bihar 500 4 Jammu & Kashmir 150 5 Meghalaya 42 6 Manipur 19 7 Mizoram 12 8 Nagaland 48 9 Sikkim 10 10 Tripura 40 11 Uttar Pradesh 500 Total 1800
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  • 49. 49 Launched in February 19, 2019 This mobile application will enable the PLVs to perform on field pre – registration of cases with a facility to seek appointment from the Panel lawyer on preferred date and time, in coordination with Village Level entrepreneur (VLE) at the CSC. The application will benefit 73,000 PLVs of National Legal Service Authority and State Legal Services Authorities (SLSA) in the country who will be associated under Tele-Law service.
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