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23/08/22 09:20 AM IST

Legal Aid Defense Counsel System

In News 
  • The National Legal Services Authority has recently introduced the concept of full time engagement of lawyers for legal services delivery under the Legal Aid Defense Counsel System (LADCS), which is in line with the ‘Public Defender System’. 
LADCS 
  • LADC is a NALSA-funded project to provide free legal aid (in line with the Public defender system) to accused persons to defend themselves in criminal trials.
NALSA 
  • NALSA has been constituted under the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987, to provide free legal services to weaker sections of society.
  • NALSA monitors and review the effectiveness of legal aid programs and to develop rules and principles for providing legal services under the Act.
  • It also distributes funding and grants to state legal services authorities and non-profit organisations to help them execute legal aid systems and initiatives.
  • ‘Nyaya Deep’ is the official newsletter of NALSA.
  • Chief Justice of India shall be the Patron-in-Chief, Second senior-most judge of the Supreme Court of India is the Executive-Chairman.
  • Outreach programme: where the legal service authorities were able to effectively reach out to the villages and provide timely legal aid.
  • Number of resolved Lok Adalat cases crossed the 1 crore mark.
Constitutional Provisions 
  • Article 39A of the Constitution of India provides that State shall secure that the operation of the legal system promotes justice on a basis of equal opportunity, and shall in particular, provide free legal aid, by suitable legislation or schemes or in any other way, to ensure that opportunities for securing justice are not denied to any citizen by reason of economic or other disability.
  • Articles 14 and 22(1) also make it obligatory for the State to ensure equality before law and a legal system which promotes justice on a basis of equal opportunity to all.
Source- Indian Express 

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