LEGAL AID FOR POOR AND INDIGENT LITIGANT IN BANGLADESH

Abstract

Legal aid is a widely accepted system for poor and indigent litigant with intends to ensure natural justice in Bangladesh. Our poor litigant people cannot meet the expenses of the high fees of lawyers so that to give them legal aid there are governmental and nongovernmental organization. In Bangladesh, the law is often discriminatory and complex in the procedure for poor and indigent person. The poor and indigent person faces problem of inadequate and unequal access in justice and trial system. For this reason, Legal aid plays an important role for the development of justice system of Bangladesh, to ensure fundamental rights, equality before law and the equal protection of laws. However, the current Legal aid system of Bangladesh is facing some critical technical and policy related predicaments while extending their services to the poor and destitute local as well as indigent people. Thus, the present paper has penned to highlight all the exiting shortcomings of the Legal aid services in Bangladesh, analyses critically the legal and technical barriers of the service and propose a policy recommendation of how to overcome these problems in Bangladesh