“Social justice is the surest guarantor of peace in the world.” ― Guy Ryder.
Brief Background of Best Practices:
The rapid changes happening in the world scenarios caused changes at an unprecedented pace and scale along with climate change, demographic changes, sharing own resources and land, terrorism as a business and making defense deals, polarized system, geopolitics, technological development, globalization and improvement in better understanding of Public Policy .
The dynamic leadership implemented for the legal education and empowering young precedes the law profession and practitioners, which in turn aims to provide legal aids and advice to make necessary changes through the legal proceedings to the society.
These practices become an awakening sign of our youth to make India a developed nation. The students of law play a vital role in making a nation stand united and unique in comparison with other countries. This practice brings multi linguistic culture amongst the students through learning various policies to ameliorate not just the societal complication but also understanding policies for betterment of the country. Thus, such experience will provide justice to the common and needy people, which will help us to move forward and see a triumphant India.
The continuous drives of spreading awareness to the various section of citizen of the country raised their voice against the corruptions, terrorism, poverty, NRC related issues in the states of independent India and makes the ruling Government take responsible for securing Justice to all and providing legal remedies for poor and underprivileged section of society.
The management and students have seen that the societal issues are addressed on a daily basis with proper case study and address the nation through social media platforms or events at campus with legal frameworks. Bringing or mediating real cases from the mediation cell or police station and demonstrating in a systematic manner to provide legal aids to the society. The real law education is the very instrumental entity with the facts of disseminating legal education by providing legal aid via legal clinics.
Challenges in Implementation:
Even though this best practice provides social justice, assigns rights and duties for the society, which enables people to receive the basic benefits and justice from the ruling parties. It’s challenging in implementation and execution through the common platform for polarized economy, geopolitics and unstructured Government policies. The main challenges are changes in taxation, social security, public health, labor law and regulation of markets, to ensure distribution of wealth, and equal opportunity.
The political willingness is the basic challenge to implement the best law practices in society. The common people are not allowed to address the issues in their own manners under social justice and human rights. The govt. agencies-ED, CBI and election commission dominate the society and miss utilization of their power against the common citizen before they are convicted by the court of justice.
International interference and influence in judiciary system and creates the propagandas to destabilized the ruling government and change the mode of operations.
Ways of Implementation:
- It is the responsibility of every citizen of the country to take initiatives along with the young minded students community and the member representative of the each community must be assigned to the class and section of the society they belong to for which they find themself best fitted. This best practice implemented at campus with various real case studies as a part of curriculum for the law students who have clinical based education as part of their academic activity by involving sociological methods along with the practical field and working in the legal field;
- The practice is implemented through the law teachers deliver instruction and assessment by using specified resources provided in a curriculum;
- The part best practice in implementation of international relations by focusing geopolitics and studying foreign policy to understand, explain, and predict international political relationship which effects geographical variables by explain how countries, businesses, terrorist groups, etc. implement their political goals by controlling geographic features of the world
Outcome of Best Practices:
- The end of legal battle and provide justice to the people supported and contributed positively to this great cause thereby encouraging and motivating the faculty and student fraternity.
- Any success of this type of activity encourages students to uphold moral values and contribute more time for the society in future.
- This best practice is one of the examples of how a student and institution is imparting legal education in order to prepare young legal professionals ready to serve the society through Legal Aid.
- This best practice is aims to remove social inequality and disability in terms of work cultures of the society;
- This practice generates funds for the institution by involving students and faculty to mediate the case and provide legal aid to the society.
- This practice enhances the skills of the students by doing field work and drafting the cases with the help of faculty and practicing advocate, retired judges in arbitration.
- It provides information to the rest of the world related to the legal problems in India and they can take serious decisions about the foreign investment and make sure of the profitability of their future policies.
Problems Encountered and Resources Required
- In the initial stage it’s difficult to convince the common people regarding the benefits of this initiative and identification of legal problems and reporting to the clinic.
- More such initiative disrupted a busy semester schedule. The limited time to contribute for field works and data collection due to protection and unknown threat.
- Legal barriers due to state and central Government policies and management support, protocols of Bar Council of India and the university to restructure the curriculum as per the judgement awarded for the some historical cases for recent and past can be the real example for the society and protection of constitution.
- Unequal social rights and opportunities creates confusion in the society.
- Difficulties in case of juvenile justice and international arbitration
- Unwanted problem due to involvement in criminal cases and harassment from the police station and court visit during interrogation for the students
- Parents are not interested to involve the students for any litigation before the completion of course
- The basic training and skills required for the students to physically travel to attend the client in various cities create the panic among the students;
- Pressure on semester exams and taking additional workload for the clinical legal practices creates mental pressure for the students
- The common problem due to interconnected or interwoven with justice administration like Independence of Judiciary, Corruption in Judiciary, failure in imparting speedy Justice, failure to win the confidence of the people over justice administration system, problems of social inequalities and practices, various manifesto of political parties, domination for casting votes.
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