Consultations with legal aid stakeholders of Kathmandu and Ilam held

July 07, 2015

As effective coordination is key to the success of any program, coordination meetings are being conducted in the various prisoners’ legal aid program districts. In such a string of meetings, two more were held in Ilam and Kathmandu districts on 18 Feb and 7 March 2011 respectively.

Program in Ilam was attended by all the three appellate court judges, Bishnu Dev Poudel, Mohan Bahadur Karki and Rewant Bahadur Kunwar, wherein they appreciated and provided their feedbacks to CeLRRd’s PLA program. It was said that the program is significant and of concern because it helps restore prisoners’ rights and provides them a better means and opportunity to seek justice.

Similarly, discussion in Kathmandu revealed that there have been duplication of services in some cases while in some other cases, there is no any representation. Hence, the periodic coordination meetings should be able to avoid such occurrences, thereby inviting other possible organizations to attend such meetings. Likewise, it was also said that the service should be made more accessible to the needy people and for the better service delivery the same lawyer should represent from the beginning to the end of the trial.

Other invitees included appellate court judges, bar president, district attorneys, district police, legal professionals, jailor, journalist, social workers, and paid lawyers.

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