Panel Discussion in Bangalore - ‘The Difficulty of Equal Justice: Legal Aid and the Criminal Justice System’

october 17 2019

The panel comprising Justice Madan B Lokur (Former Judge, Supreme Court of India), Professor Vijay Raghavan ( Professor, Centre for Criminology and Justice, TISS), Adv. Aarti Mundkur (Advocate, Bangalore), Adv. Monica Sakhrani (Senior Advisor, Fair Trial Fellowship, Project39A, NLU Delhi), and Dr. Anup Surendranath (Executive Director, Project 39A, NLU Delhi) discussed the state of legal aid in India by locating it within the larger criminal justice system. Among discussion on various aspects of the legal aid system, the panel delved into the structural problems within the system and the concerns around the quality of lawyering in legal aid cases.