HIDAYATULAH NATIONAL LAW

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The Right To Legal Aid: A Comparative Analysis

of India And The United Kingdom

Ayush Bansal
Deepak Kumar Srivastav
ROLL NO.-08
Faculty:- Comparative Public Law
LL.M. (2014-2015)

Dr.

INTRODUCTION
India is a developing country. The development in the industrial sector is very much
appreciable, but still this progress in the field of industrialization, marketing, finance, etc.
cannot hide the indispensable drawbacks of our society like population explosion and
illiteracy. These drawbacks, coupled with environmental and social hinges results in increase
in poverty and lack of food for people.
But those who are still neglected are the main foundation of the society that is to be
remembered.
The society is divided into two parts, according to financial standard, namely haves and the
have nots. In our country with 100 million people, only a little part of the population comes
within the purview of the haves, whereas, the lions share is the have nots.
The HAVE NOTS as well as the HAVES both looks for earning their livelihood, looking for
the benefit of their family, giving a good future to the next generation, some are successful to
it, some are not.
In this ways both categories of people spend most of their lives overlooking a lot of facts,
intentionally or unintentionally, that a lot of wrongs are being done against them. Other
people, or the Government or whoever may be is infringing their rights. But the wronged
ones are not very eager to protest against the wrong doer. Even some times they are not
knowledgeable enough that a wrong is being done against them.
If they do not know that a wrong is being done, it is a different scenario. But if they know
about the fact, they are still not standing against it. As because, it may cause a lot of problem
in their field of profession and might have to face a bigger loss. In this way they are actually
abating the wrong.
So, for both the categories of people it is necessary to make them understand what sort of
wrongs they actually are facing and the abatement is also causing a greater harm to the
society and it can hamper the well being of their own next generation.
Keeping this fact in the mind the Government has taken up policies to spread awareness to
the common mass through organizing different programmes held by different authorities,
governmental or non-governmental. As the people of this country becomes aware about their

legal rights, duties and liabilities they, themselves will understand how much better their lives
can become.
Spreading the awareness about the rights of the people and how they are or can be infringed
is the primary target of these authorities. So that the one who is wronged can himself realize
that he has been wronged.
Once he has realized, that he has been wronged the question of redress arises. These
authorities, governmental or non-governmental also provide the assistance, which is required
by these wronged ones. These authorities provide HELP, in the legal field. This HELP is
turned as LEGAL AID. These authorities and different other organizations hold such LEGAL
AID CLINICS through the nation with the motto to help the VICTIMS.
Central Government has developed a plan and has also started to apply it by the help of the
Legal Services Authorities, for this purpose. This authority spreads Legal Awareness amongst
the citizens of our country, provides Legal Assistance like appointing advocates and giving
advices to the people and also to suggest the Government different other plans relating this
noble cause. These are the functions carried out by these organizations and authorities.

ISSUES
1. What Is Legal Aid?
2. What are the Constitutional Provisions Relating To Legal Aid?
3. How legal Aid programmes can be improved?
RATIONALE OF LEGAL AID
OBJECTIVES OF LEGALAID
COMPARISION OF CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISION WITH OTHER NATION
HYPOTHESIS
REVIEW OF LITERATURE
SOURCES OF DATA
ANALYSIS & INTERPRETATION
CASE LAW
CONCLUSION & SUGGESTION
The major obstacle to the legal aid movement in India is the lack of legal awareness. People
are still not aware of their basic rights due to which the legal aid movement has not achieved
its goal yet. It is the absence of legal awareness which leads to exploitation and deprivation of
rights and benefits of the poor. Thus it is the need of the hour that the poor illiterate people
should be imparted with legal knowledge and should be educated on their basic rights which
should be done from the grass root level of the country. Because if the poor persons fail to
enforce their rights etc. because of poverty, etc. they may lose faith in the administration of
justice and instead of knocking the door of law and Courts to seek justice, they may try to
settle their disputes on the streets or to protect their rights through muscle power and in such
condition there will be anarchy and complete dearth of the rule of law. Thus legal aid to the
poor and weak person is necessary for the preservation of rule of law which is necessary for
the existence of the orderly society. Until and unless poor illiterate man is not legally assisted,
he is denied equality in the opportunity to seek justice.