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Law Ministry tele-consultation service now addressing queries related to pandemic, lockdown
NEW DELHI: A Law Ministry tele-consultation service launched to help rural residents get pre-litigation legal advice from a panel of lawyers is now receiving calls from people seeking solutions to problems arising out of the coronavirus pandemic and the lockdown in various parts of the country.
People have been calling various local centres of the tele-law scheme seeking solutions to various issues such as police highhandedness in implementing Covid-appropriate behaviour and discrimination being faced by health workers and their families who are wrongly accused of being carriers of coronavirus.
In a first for Jharkhand, a transgender person became a member of a National Lok Adalat bench, organised by the District Legal Services Authority at the Ranchi civil court on Saturday.
Amruta Alpesh Soni, 38, from Sholapur district in Maharashtra, was part of the National Lok Adalat’s bench number 19, which also comprised judicial magistrate, Ranchi, Manish Kumar Singh, and Nityanand Singh, panel lawyer (DLSA Ranchi).
Lok Adalat is a forum where the disputes/cases pending in the court of law or at pre-litigation stage are settled/compromised amicably. The Lok Adalat has been given statutory status under the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987.
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“Section 17 of the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007, is declared as ultra vires of Section 30 of the Advocates Act, 1961”
In a groundbreaking judgment, the Kerala High Court has declared as unconstitutional the bar on lawyers representing parties in matters before the Maintenance Tribunals constituted under the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007 (Maintenance Act).
A Bench of Chief Justice S Manikumar and Justice Shaji P Chaly pronounced judgment in the case last week, allowing a writ petition filed in 2011.
Drawing from Section 30 of the Advocates Act, the Bench ruled,
For Lok Adalats, speed overrides quality
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April 07, 2021 23:45 IST
The system must look beyond swift disposal of cases and focus on just and fair outcomes
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The system must look beyond swift disposal of cases and focus on just and fair outcomes
Justice delayed is justice denied. Access to justice for the poor is a constitutional mandate to ensure fair treatment under our legal system. Hence, Lok Adalats (literally, ‘People’s Court’) were established to make justice accessible and affordable to all. It was a forum to address the problems of crowded case dockets outside the formal adjudicatory system.