Legal profession is all about service. Service to individuals, organisations, corporate entities etc. It becomes the bounden duty of a person in the profession to ensure access to justice even to those underprivileged who cannot afford to pay the lawyers. American Bar Association (ABA) has made it mandatory for every lawyer enrolled with it to offer 50 hours of free consultation to those who cannot afford the legal fees. In India, Article 39A of our Constitution requires the State to make legislation for free legal aid in order to ensure that opportunities to secure justice are not denied to any citizen by reason of economic or other disability. Accordingly we have National Legal Service Authority and State Level Legal Service Authorities.
(Ref: 01. American Bar Association-www.abanet.org 02. National Legal Service Authority-causelists.nic.in/nalsa, both last visited today, on 29.08.2010).
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