{"id":201710,"date":"2022-08-24T18:34:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T13:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=201710"},"modified":"2022-08-24T18:34:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T13:04:02","slug":"legal-aid-defence-counsel-system-launched-in-365-districts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/legal-aid-defence-counsel-system-launched-in-365-districts\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Aid Defence Counsel system launched in 365 districts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cLegal Aid Defence Counsel system launched in 365 districts\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>The Tribune <\/b>on<b> 23rd August 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NALSA Executive Chairman has launched the Legal Aid Defence Counsel (LADC) system in 365 districts in 22 states across India.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the Legal Aid Defence Counsel(LADC) system?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>Launched by: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nalsa\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National Legal Services Authority (NALSA)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Purpose: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To provide free legal aid to poor people facing criminal cases to defend themselves during trial.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Why was the LADC system launched?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">n India, where 70% of the population is below the poverty line, the number of cases with NALSA, especially on the criminal side, is only about 10-12%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The rest of the marginalized population was engaging private counsels even at the cost of losing their assets &#8211; selling their jewellery and mortgaging their houses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hence, to extend legal aid to these marginalized populations, the LADC system has been launched.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cLegal Aid Defence Counsel system launched in 365 districts\u201d published in The Tribune on 23rd August 2022. What is the News? NALSA Executive Chairman has launched the Legal Aid Defence Counsel (LADC) system in 365 districts in 22 states across India. What is the Legal Aid Defence&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/legal-aid-defence-counsel-system-launched-in-365-districts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Legal Aid Defence Counsel system launched in 365 districts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1760,9],"tags":[11075],"class_list":["post-201710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-polity-and-nation","category-public","tag-the-tribune","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}