The recent success of the Delhi National University of Law may be another example of how law universities can operate effectively in these areas. The Legal Aid Committee of Delhi National Law University was able to release a person who had been imprisoned in Tihar prison in recent years for stealing a wallet containing 1,000 rupees. The students pleaded before the magistrate and managed to convince the magistrate. They were informed that they visit the prison 4 times a month to educate prisoners about legal aid and related activities. Since independence, the proportion of people in India who can afford a good lifestyle has steadily increased, while the proportion of people living below the poverty line has decreased significantly. This change can undeniably be linked as a direct or indirect consequence of the government`s policy of uplifting the poor. Yet many people have still not been able to reap the benefits of these policies and regulations and the resulting economic growth. This has widened the gap between rich and poor. As such, the poorest strata of society feel excluded and face various social injustices. To make matters worse, they have no one to represent them in court and are therefore deprived of justice. If the educated, affluent and urban strata of our population tend to flee and avoid the aid of the law because of the complexity of judicial procedures, how can we expect the rural and backward masses to regard the system of courts and judges as an instrument of justice? Although not all problems can be solved to the core, our constitution and legislation offer a solution to the poorest and neediest sections of society who cannot afford to access legal services by providing them with free legal aid. This free legal advice is known as legal aid. In accordance with Article 39-A, the Constitution of India provides that the State shall ensure the functioning of the legal system on the basis of equality of opportunity and, in particular, shall provide free legal aid through appropriate laws or systems or otherwise, in order to ensure that the constitutional promise is kept in letter and spirit and that equal justice is granted to the poor.
Oppressed and part of society. Whatever standards a person sets for himself, whether religious, moral, social or purely rational, it is the law that prescribes and regulates his rights and duties towards the other member of the community. This somewhat arbitrary set of principles must be adopted very broadly, as he observes, and in a modern society it tends to be diverse and complex that the assistance of an expert is often essential, not only to enforce or defend legal rights, but to identify and define legal aid, which implies that the poor and needy, who uses the services of a lawyer for the conduct of a legal case or proceeding before a court or tribunal or public authority. A law establishing legal service authorities to provide free and competent legal services to the weaker sections of society, to ensure that opportunities to provide justice are not denied to any citizen on the basis of economic or other handicaps, and to organize Lok Adalat to ensure that the functioning of the legal system promotes justice based on equal opportunities. THE MEANING AND DEFINITION OF LEGAL AID Free or inexpensive legal advice for those who otherwise could not obtain it because of their financial situation. Legal aid schemes generally require that the case for which assistance is requested has at least a 50 per cent chance of reaching the courts. As a general rule, legal aid is not available if: The principle of the rule of law and the philosophy of the Indian Constitution in its so-called basic structure stipulate that every citizen should have adequate access to justice. Nevertheless, this constitutional guarantee is a luxury for many who face problems of poverty, economic deprivation and lack of education. As a result, a project was orchestrated to identify and propose the role that law schools could play in mitigating prevailing injustices, official apathy, and raising the threshold of competence of future professionals, as well as in improving the general legal awareness of the community. It should also be noted that law schools make very little effort to inform the community of their existence and the availability of services. This large gap has, in fact, significantly reduced the impact of the free legal service of law schools. She noted that law students engaging in legal aid activities can do a lot to turn the explosion of routing slips into an exclusion from the file.
She explained that the provisions of article 89 of the Code of Civil Procedure concerning out-of-court dispute resolution procedures can have a very good effect in raising students` awareness of the legal mechanisms available. Clinical programs focused on legal aid to the poor began in the 1960s in the United States and India, clinical programs in the United States are well ahead of programs in India. Initially, clinical programs in the United States received a federal grant, and today, most law schools in the United States have well-developed and institutionalized clinics that provide multiple legal services to the community. Similar results have been obtained in other countries. In most countries, legal assistance is provided by law school clinics with the assistance of qualified lawyers.