Efficacy of Legal Aid: Bridging the Justice Gap

Abstract

The legal resource is the supply of help to those who are not able to come up with the money for felony illustration and get admission to the courtroom docket system. Ensuring that legal aid is available for everyone especially to the economically weaker sections of the society where this access to justice is so important. This paper investigates the judicial attitude and role towards legal aid, with a special but not exclusive focus on its elevation to a constitutional right under Article 21 of the Indian Constitution through adjudication. In fact, Justice P.N. Bhagwati defined legal aid as “not merely a repaint of law in favour of the strong.” Thus, it prospers on equal justice. As per him, legal aid is one type of emergency call for the help of law. Moreover, legal aid involves a broader concept of social justice, which affords a societal climate in which equality of status and opportunity will be secured to all, thus making the power of the judiciary accessible and in everyone’s grasp during the critical point at which the citizen must assert his rights. Keywords: Legal Aid, Unbiased Justice System, Law, Constitutional Provisions, Other Legal Provisions