Legal Aid & Services Clinic- Lloyd Law College About The importance of Legal Aid and Awareness Campaigns as a mechanism for social progress is something that has been repeatedly stressed upon by the Government of India. In the backdrop of Poverty and Inequality, legal Aid is an effective way towards attainment of the ideals of ‘Social, Economic and Political’ Justice that are enshrined in the preamble of our constitution and under the Directive Principles of State Policy. Imparting legal awareness is the first step towards ensuring prompt and effective access to justice. Keeping this in mind, the Bar Council of India mandated all law colleges and universities in India to establish and run legal aid centers or clinics. The idea was to fulfil certain standards of legal education, but more importantly, it was also aimed at engaging the students in serving their community by promoting legal awareness through these legal aid clinics and programmes. The entire purpose of setting nationwide collegiate clinics is to acclimatize several thousand law students of the nation to the problems faced by the masses ignorant about their rights and remedies under the law. The aim is indeed a noble one but there difficulties which still need to be addressed. The Lloyd Law College Legal Aid Clinic is one successful beacon while there many more colleges and universities where such beacons need to be lighted, many thousands whose legal dilemmas need to be efficiently addressed. The Lloyd Law College Legal Aid & Services Clinic is the body which inducts students to use their knowledge of law to provide free legal aid to those who are most in need of it through various media. The Legal Aid functions that it performs are preventive, remedial, activist and reformative. Our aim is to spread legal awareness among students and people at large. we endeavours to achieve the target by organising legal literacy camps, Seminars, Legal Counselling, public Speaking, Poster Making, Street Plays, liasoning with Legal Services Authorities and thorough various other communicable mediums.
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Legal Aid & Services Clinic- Lloyd Law College
About
The importance of Legal Aid and Awareness Campaigns as a mechanism for social
progress is something that has been repeatedly stressed upon by the Government of
India. In the backdrop of Poverty and Inequality, legal Aid is an effective way
towards attainment of the ideals of ‘Social, Economic and Political’ Justice that are
enshrined in the preamble of our constitution and under the Directive Principles of
State Policy. Imparting legal awareness is the first step towards ensuring prompt
and effective access to justice. Keeping this in mind, the Bar Council of India
mandated all law colleges and universities in India to establish and run legal aid
centers or clinics. The idea was to fulfil certain standards of legal education, but
more importantly, it was also aimed at engaging the students in serving their
community by promoting legal awareness through these legal aid clinics and
programmes.
The entire purpose of setting nationwide collegiate clinics is to acclimatize several
thousand law students of the nation to the problems faced by the masses ignorant
about their rights and remedies under the law. The aim is indeed a noble one but
there difficulties which still need to be addressed. The Lloyd Law College Legal
Aid Clinic is one successful beacon while there many more colleges and
universities where such beacons need to be lighted, many thousands whose legal
dilemmas need to be efficiently addressed.
The Lloyd Law College Legal Aid & Services Clinic is the body which inducts
students to use their knowledge of law to provide free legal aid to those who are
most in need of it through various media. The Legal Aid functions that it performs
are preventive, remedial, activist and reformative.
Our aim is to spread legal awareness among students and people at large. we
endeavours to achieve the target by organising legal literacy camps, Seminars,
Legal Counselling, public Speaking, Poster Making, Street Plays, liasoning with
Legal Services Authorities and thorough various other communicable mediums.
Legal Aid Centre
Head: Mr. Piyush Sharma, Deputy Registrar (Law), Lloyd Law College
Faculty Member: Mr Vinayak Vijay, Assistant Professor (Law) Lloyd Law College
Student Team
Mrigendra Kumar Prem Piyush Pandey
Sachin Sharma Sabarni Som
Vaibhav Vashisht Rajveer Vatsa
Kshitij Kumar Sanket Kumar
Saathi Mukherji Abhinav Kumar
Manya Jain Ayush Dutt Tripathi
Kumar Shubham Pranjal Rajpoot
Devansh Solanki Harsh Kumar
EVENTS
1. Awareness Workshops/ Camps
a. “An Initiative to Raise Awareness about Transgender Rights”
The rule of law is supreme and everyone is equal in the eyes of law in India. Yet, the transgender
community is in a constant battle as they have to fight oppression, abuse and discrimination from
every part of the society, whether it’s their own family and friends or society at large. It’s high
time to recognize and honor their rights.
In this context the Legal Aid & Services Clinic- Lloyd law College, greater Noida in
collaboration with District legal Services Authority has organised an event to raise awareness
about Transgender Rights on 16th September, 2017. A street play was organized by the students
members of legal Aid & Services Clinic. The following esteemed guests were present to grace
the occasion.
• Mr. Ram Naresh Maurya, Additional District & Session Judge, Gautam Budh Nagar