Legal Aid, Activism and RTIs
NLSIU Bangalore’s legal services clinic (LSC) explains some of the projects that have won it $5,000.
Legal Aid, Activism and RTIs
Katju NGO, with “mandate of the people”, to be inaugurated on 15 April.
Legal Aid, Activism and RTIs
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.
Legal Aid, Activism and RTIs
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.
Legal Aid, Activism and RTIs
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.
Legal Aid, Activism and RTIs
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
Legal Aid, Activism and RTIs
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.
Legal Aid, Activism and RTIs
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.”