LEGAL AID

SERVICE
 WHAT IS LEGAL AID?
Legal aid is the provision of assistance to people otherwise unable to afford
legal representation and access to the court system.

EQUALITY THE RIGHT TO THE RIGHT TO

BEFORE LAW COUNSEL FIAR TRIAL
 The legal aid is for those who cannot
afford other means of access to
justice has therefore has become an
essential component in the elements
of develop societies.
IMPORTANCE However financial crisis rates of

OF LEGAL AID
globalization and chanegs in
goverment and outlook cross the
global have provided a range of
pressures on all public spending
including the provision of legal aid.
 MODES OF LEGAL AID
1 2 3 4

Free Legal MahaLok Adalat E - Legal Aid Arbitaration and

counseling and clinic counseling
assistance.
Object of Legal Aid
To ensure equal justice to all.
to give free legal advice to weaker section of the society.
The need for legal assistance to be readily available and
easily accessible to deserving person.
To separate legal literacy amongst the citizens of India,
specially the weak, poor inrespective of race, caste, sex,
colour or creed.
To arrange legal aid camps to settle disputes a micably
amongst the citizens of India and to setup alternative
methods of redress of grivences specially, by voluntary
consent of the advisory parties.
Eligibility for 01 Should be a member of the SC/ST category.

Free Legal
Aid 02 Woman or a child

Person with a disability as per S. 2(i) Persons

03 With Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection
of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995

3
04 an industrial workman
 NGOs– There are many NGOs that work
3 HOW LEGAL for the upliftment of the economically
weaker section and provide free legal aid.

AID IS Legal Aid Clinics in NLUs- Section 4(k) of

the LSA makes it mandatory to set up a
RECIEVED free legal aid clinic in law
colleges/universities.

Pro Bono Cases– Corporate Responsible

is extended to provide free legal aid,
especially in reputed firms.

Legal Aid Clinics– They are established in

villages depending upon their size and
population by the District Authorities.
 The right to free legal services is an
essential ingredient of reasonable, fair
and just procedure for a person accused
of an offence and it must be held implicit
KHATRI VS in the guarantee of Article 21 and the
State is under a constitutional mandate to
STATE OF provide a lawyer to an accused person if
the circumstances of the case and the
BIHAR needs of justice so require.
The State cannot avoid this obligation by
pleading financial or administrative
inability or that none of the aggrieved
prisoners asked for any legal aid.
Thank you!
ARCHANA PAL