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Legal awareness, sometimes called public legal education or legal literacy, is the empowerment of individuals regarding issues involving the law. [1] Legal awareness helps to promote consciousness of legal culture , participation in the formation of laws and the rule of law .
NALSA undertook activities including free legal aid and advice to the needy, disposal of cases through mediation and amicable settlement. [6] It was a unique effort to minimize the pendency load (backlog) of Indian courts as well as to afford access to justice for needy litigants.
Faizan Mustafa is an Indian academic and legal scholar. He is the former Vice-Chancellor of NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad and before that he was also the founding V.C. of National Law University Odisha (NLUO). [1] [2] He sits on the board of directors of technology incubator, the T-Hub.
In India, only part of the Islamic law of Sharia is enforced: the legal system consists of civil law, common law, customary law, religious law and corporate law. Although Islamic law is considered sacred, due to modern political and social developments sacred interpretation of classic Islamic law's in India have changed in response to societal ...
India provides some legal recognition of homosexual partnerships as live-in relationships and cohabitation is legal as per the judiciary. It does not provide for legal marriages, common law marriages, guardianship, civil unions, or issue partnership certificates, [ 7 ] [ 8 ] though same-sex couples can obtain rights and benefits as a live-in ...
Consumer Protection Act 1986 (COPRA) was an Act by the Parliament of India elected to protect the interests of consumers in India. It was replaced by the Consumer Protection Act, 2019 . It was made for the establishment of consumer councils and other authorities for the settlement of consumer's dispute and matters connected with it.
National Legal Services Authority v. Union of India (2014) is a landmark judgement of the Supreme Court of India, which declared transgender people the 'third gender', affirmed that the fundamental rights granted under the Constitution of India will be equally applicable to them, and gave them the right to self-identification of their gender as male, female or third gender.
Legal consciousness is the way in which law is experienced and interpreted by specific individuals as they engage, avoid, resist or just assume the law and legal meanings. [4] Legal consciousness is a state of being, legal socialisation is the process to Legal consciousness; where as legal awareness & legal mobilisation are means to achieve the ...