Legal Aid to Ensure Access to Justice in Bangladesh

Abstract

This paper lays down about how legal aid ensures access to justice in Bangladesh. Legal aid is a proven process by which exploitation of the poor can be removed and rule of law, equality and justice can be ensured for all citizens of the State. Being the owner of the State, getting legal aid is a right of the poor people. It is not a mercy or charity from the government. The State is under an obligation to ensure access to justice for all citizens . Nowadays, a legal aid can be justifiably said as a crying need to ensure social and legal justice in Bangladesh because most of the citizens are illiterate and they live below the poverty line which incidentally makes matters worse. Due to their financial crisis or lack of legal knowledge they are often precluded to access justice. In recognizing the legal aid as a right, the government has enacted some laws . In this paper, an attempt has been made to analyze and find out numerous legal the gaps, loopholes and complexities of the existing laws relating to legal aid services in Bangladesh and frame out a comprehensive solution for ensuring the aid program by adopting the qualitative and the analytical research methods. This paper is produced paper is prepared in order to know how legal aid ensures access to justice, what are the opportunities to get legal aid, who provide it, present scenario of it in Bangladesh etc. In this paper, the whole management system of legal aid, its loopholes, suggestions to overcome from the loopholes, procedures of getting legal aid, historical records with many chapters etc. are incorporated very nicely.