Course on Access to Justice by Swayam Platform of MHRD: Registrations Open

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The connection between law and society needs to be understood for the good governance of a welfare society in a democratic setup. India being a democratic country owes a duty to maintain such a relationship between law and society where the law actually caters to the need of society.

This duty makes equal access to justice by the people of India an indispensable responsibility on the shoulders of all the four pillars of Indian democracy ie parliament, executive, judiciary, and press. That is why the need of promoting equal access to justice has been highlighted tremendously in the recent past. All the four pillars of the Indian democratic system have strongly advocated for ensuring equal access to justice.

Parliament has passed some guiding legislation to strengthen equal access to justice. Judiciary is also playing a proactive role bypassing many landmark judgments to clarify any ambiguity in existing provisions for effective implementation of such guiding legislation. An executive is equally supporting equal access to justice by making and implementing government schemes for it. Press in its own way contributing to promoting equal access to justice by making people aware of their rights but still, lots more needs to be done.

People still are not aware of their basic rights and enabling provisions for eliminating impediments to access to justice. In view of this, it becomes important for people to understand the legal dimensions of equal access to justice.

The course covers all important recent developments in this area. The course of Access to Justice has been specifically designed to provide an overview of India’s justice system and an in-depth knowledge about basic rights promoting equal access to justices, mode of realization of such rights, remedies for its infringements, and other related important issues.

Details of the Course

  1. Course Length: 70 hours
  2. Weekly Time Commitment: 5 hours approximately 
  3. Certificate: Yes, after passing the exam
  4. Exam Date: To be announced
  5. Important Deadline: 30th August 2021
  6. Category: Constitutional Law, Humanities and Social Sciences
  7. Level: Undergraduate/Postgraduate
  8. Duration: 15 Weeks

About the Instructor

Dr. Bharti Yadav has been a faculty at National Law University Delhi since 2012. Her areas of interest and specialisation are Criminal Law, Research Methodology, Legal Aid and Clinical Legal Education. She has also supervised many LL.M. students for their dissertations.

She has contributed in administrative reforms initiatives at prisons by conducting various empirical researches. She has actively collaborated with Delhi Legal Services Authorities in various Legal Aid initiatives. She has been a resource faculty at Haryana Institute of Public Administration in various training programs for HCS officers and law officers of Haryana.

From 2015 to 2017, she also acted as an external member of the complaint committee against sexual harassment at the workplace of NABCONS and NABARD. She has contributed to the e-pathshala Programme of UGC by writing modules on various aspects of access to justice. She has also been a resource person for the Gyan Darshan TV channel for spreading legal awareness.

She has offered seminar courses at the University of Wurzburg, Wurzburg, Germany in the years 2016 & 2017. She was invited by Justice Academy Ankara, Turkey to address Judges and advocates on the art of cross-examination in the year 2017.

She has presided sessions on promoting justice education in the international conference of Global Alliance of Justice Education in Turkey in 2015 and Mexico in 2017.

Course Certificate

Course learners who qualify for the course examination can obtain a passing certificate and a marks sheet for credit transfer.

Contact

E-mail ID: bharti.yadav@nludelhi.ac.in

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