Legal Aid, Activism and RTIs

How NLSIU Bangalore’s legal aid cell won $5,000 global citizenship prize

LSC: Recognise
LSC: Recognise

NLSIU Bangalore’s legal services clinic (LSC) explains some of the projects that have won it $5,000.

Katju’s ‘Court of Last Resort’ NGO to free undertrials with Fali, Memon & Mahesh Bhat

Katju
Katju
Katju NGO, with “mandate of the people”, to be inaugurated on 15 April.

Law schools show dismal record of RTI Act compliance

Rights through Information
Rights through Information
As the government has constituted a new taskforce to enforce implementation of access to the Right to Information, research by Infocracy India suggests that most law schools are not complying with the law.

NLU Delhi legal aiders free Tihar undertrial accused of Rs 1,000 theft

Exclusive: Members of NLU Delhi’s legal aid committee have won their first release of an undertrial prisoner languishing in Tihar jail for two years for the theft of a Rs 1,000 wallet.

NUJS legal aid wrap 2011: Plans greater co-operation, joint projects

NUJS Kolkata legal aid society (LAS) has called for a strengthening of legal aid networks across India, as it released a report of the college’s legal aid activities this year which included tie-ups with human rights organizations and a successful national conference.

NLSIU students win in consumer tribunal v Pepsi MRPs

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Five NLSIU Bangalore students with their legal aid clinic have won their consumer forum action against Pepsi Co for charging differential minimum retail prices (MRPs) on beverages, with the forum finding that the practices were “unfair” and “illegal”.

Infocracy: Making high school RTI drafting classes mandatory; Improving law school worker conditions

Infocracy India, an initiative to increase RTI activism amongst Indian law students, is launching a project to make RTI drafting an obligatory part of the Class 10 school syllabus and to investigate whether minimum wage is paid to campus labourers.

Infocracy India: Become a social lawyer and community journalist

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A man walks along a beach, picks up a starfish and flings it into the ocean. He does it with all the starfish he finds. Someone asks him: “Hey! There are thousands of starfish here. What difference are you making?” The man bends down, picks up another starfish and flings it into the ocean. “It makes difference to this one.”