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A Critical Analysis of Legal Aid in Bangladesh

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  • Md. Nannu Mian
  • Md. Mamunur Rashid

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Legal aid is essentially a mechanism that enables the poor and the vulnerable sectors of the society to be able to enforce their legal rights in order to access a fair and equitable justice in the society. 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. However, unfortunately those laws are full of weaknesses, loopholes, and procedural complexities which have to be judiciously addressed in the proper legal perspectives. As a matter of fact, legally speaking, much has been said and done, but ironically not much has been practiced. Due to these ever unsettling defects, the ultimate objectives of those laws have frequently failed to ensure enjoyment of the legal aid services among the vulnerable sectors of the society. In this research, 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.

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  • Md. Nannu Mian & Md. Mamunur Rashid, 2014. "A Critical Analysis of Legal Aid in Bangladesh," International Journal of Social Science Research, Macrothink Institute, vol. 2(1), pages 139-150, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:mth:ijssr8:v:2:y:2014:i:1:p:139-150
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