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Legal Services Committee

OUR MANDATE
Over the years, the Legal Services Committee has been involved in fostering legal aid and awareness. While previously our focus was on spreading awareness about rights and facilitating access to courts, from this year the Committee has expanded its domain to also ensure access to government institutions. We believe that given the socio-economic nature of various issues, the remedy must involve interaction with the wider government machinery, with the legal system an essential part of this. We feel that it is our responsibility to have such an objective given the resources and legal expertise available at the disposal of the Legal Services Committee.



OUR WORK
  • LEGAL AID CLINIC
    Continuing from its operation through the previous year, the Committee re-activated the Legal Aid Clinic to ensure it is fully functional. The Clinic has a separate office space where a legal aid lawyer from the South-West District Legal Services Authority visits the Clinic every week to deal with various grievances addressed to the Clinic. Also, the Clinic now has a dedicated phone number, enabling easier access to persons both within and outside the University. The Committee ensured that awareness drives (through posters and conversations) for the Clinic were not just for areas in and around Dwarka but as much for the staff and other members of the University. Members of the Committee coordinate with the clients and facilitate their access to the lawyer. Each case is recorded and the Committee follows up on the status of the legal issues, providing assistance where it is necessary by way of filing of FIRs, RTIs, contacting officials, accompanying clients, etc. Anyone in need of free legal counsel can reach us at - +91 9560024612.
  • Inaddition to the above mentioned core activities, the Committee also facilitates legal research for various NGO’s by putting them in touch with our student body.

    LIST OF PRO-BONO PANEL
  • Siddhant Buxy (Advocate on Record, Nalsar Batch of 2013)
  • Amit Gupta (CLC Batch of 2001, Oxford BCL 2001-02 Columbia Law School LLM 2002-03)
  • Balaji Subramanian (NLS Batch of 2017, University of Michigan LLM 2018-19)
  • Chirayu Jain (NLS Batch of 2017)
  • Shrutanjaya Bharadwaj (NLUD Batch of 2017, University of Michigan LLM 2018-19)
  • Arijeet Shukla (NLS Batch of 2019)
  • Sanya Kumar (NLUD Batch of 2016, Yale Law School LLM 2017)



ANYONE IN NEED OF FREE LEGAL COUNSEL CAN CONTACT THE LEGAL SERVICES COMMITTEE AT NLU DELHI ON +91 9560024612