# Efforts should be made for ensuring large disposal of cases

- **Citation:** C.L. No. 3
- **Court:** Allahabad High Court
- **Decided:** 2001-01-16
- **Case number:** C.L. No. 3
- **Source:** https://unisonlegal.in/judgment/allahabad-high-court/efforts-should-be-made-for-ensuring-large-disposal-of-cases-163960
- **Pages:** 4

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Efforts should be made for ensuring large disposal of cases.

You are, therefore, requested to implement the aforesaid objectives in a suitable
and befitting manner for achieving the purpose.
C.L. No. 3 Dated 16th January, 2001

―Free Legal Aid‖ to poor persons and persons of limited means is a service,
which a welfare State owes to its citizens. The preamble to the Legal Services Authorities
Act, 1987 also lays emphasis on the competent legal services to the eligible. Equal access
to law for the rich and poor alike is essential to provide adequate legal advice and legal
representation to all those threatened as to their life, liberty, property or reputation who
are not able to pay for it. But on account of various reasons, the aided persons getting
legal aid through Legal Services Authorities and committees carry an impression that
legal assistance being provided to them is no match to that which a person with resources
can arrange. Many times litigants with less efficient legal assistance are put to
disadvantage in Courts of law and face enormous difficulties in pursuit of justice.
Hon'ble Court has also noticed that sacred obligation of the State is to provide legal aid
to all those who are not able to pay for it as, at best, being carried out in the State to a
limited extent only because of the engagement of inexperienced lawyers for the said
purpose. It is also necessary to understand the full implication of the principle of equality
in the eye of law and equal protection of the law in the context of ―Legal Aid‖ for
indigent litigants, may in practice, be deprived of adequate legal advice either due to
indigence or due to the appointment of cheap and consequently an inexperienced lawyers,
whereas the State or the other authority who would probably be able to pay more, may
engage a senior member of the bar and thus again an unfair advantage over the former.
This practical difficulty cannot, therefore, be disassociated from the question of adequate
remuneration for the services rendered. Hon'ble Court desires that this imbalance
between the qualities of legal assistance must go at the earliest.

I am further to add that in spite of various legislations, social reforms, legal
awareness, women in the State continue to suffer injustice. They very often face
embarrassment and humiliation when they are asked to discuss their personal problems
with counsel from the opposite gender. Law alone is not sufficient to stamp out this
menace from our society. Hon'ble Court desires that as far as possible legal matters
pertaining to women should be entrusted to lady advocates so that an effective and
meaningful interaction takes place between the counsel and aided person to secure
justice.

I am, therefore, desired to bring to your notice that panel of legal aid counsel
should be compressed and better emoluments should be offered so that more talented and
experienced counsel join that panel and help in providing legal aid to the poor, backward,
downtrodden and to women.
C. L. No. 4/2007: 20th February, 2007
The Hon'ble Court expressing anguish over the appalling state of affairs in the
matter of non registration of the complaints at the police stations in the matters of the
children being reported missing by their hapless indigent parents/persons while issuing
various directions to the police authorities inter alia to ensure lodging of F.I.R. In all such
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reported matters has also been pleased to pass the following orders in the Criminal Misc.
Writ petition No.15630 of 2006 -Vishnu Dayal Sharma Vs. State of U.P. and others on
02.01.2007-
―The District Judges of all the districts may issue directions to the legal
aid committees to ensure that lawyers providing legal aid are present at
S.S.P./S.P./C.O.'s offices to help such indigent and resource less persons
who approach these offices.‖
Therefore, while enclosing a copy of the order of Hon'ble Court passed in the
above Writ Petition, I am directed to request you to kindly ensure compliance of the said
directions at your end in letter and spirit.
C. L. No. 11/2007 Dated: 14.3.2007
In continuation of the earlier circular letter no. 4/2007 dated 20.2.2007 issued in
compliance of the direction given by the Hon'ble Court in Criminal Misc. Writ Petition
No. 15630 of 2006- Vishnu Dayal Sharma Vs. State of U.P. and others, I have been
directed to communicate that the Hon'ble Court has been pleased to pass following order
in furtherance of earlier directions:

―In addition to our earlier direction the district judges to provide legal aid lawyers
at the S.S.P./S.P./C.O. levels, as special cells for missing children are to be constituted in
each district as per the DGP's circular dated 10.1.2007, it is directed that legal aid
lawyers may be provided at the aforesaid special cells. The district judges should monitor
or get monitored the quality of legal aid being provided by the duly appointed lawyers
and their regularity in attending the said offices. The district Judges concerned may also
apprise this Court of any difficulty that they may face in implementing this direction for
providing legal aid. They may also suggest other areas of social concern for providing
legal aid to the unnerved, resource less persons needing legal aid so that this Court may
co-ordinate this activity and issue appropriate directions wherever possible.
We direct that the monthly report of the special cell and the DIG (Region) and
I.G. (Zone) about missing children be placed before the district level monitoring
committee comprising the District Judge, D.M., S.S.P. etc. in the monthly meeting for
effective co-ordination with the district judiciary and for appropriate directions. The
Registry may take early action on directions (6) and (7).‖

While enclosing herewith a copy of the above orders of Hon'ble Court, I am
directed to request you kindly ensure strict compliance of the directions quoted
hereinabove and to kindly send progress report in respect of the difficulties, if any, which
might be faced in carrying out the above directions as also your valuable suggestions
about the other areas where legal aid may be extended to the un-served resource less
persons, to the Court at the earliest.
C. L. No. 13/2007 Dated: 2 April, 2007
With reference to the Court's earlier Circular Letter No.412007 dated 20.02.2007
and 'No. 11/2007 dated 14.03.2007 regarding Criminal Misc. Writ Petition No.15630 of
2006 -Vishnu Dayal Sharma Vs. State of U.P. and others, I am directed to say that the
compliance report in respect of the directions given by the Hon'ble Court in the above
mentioned Criminal Misc. Writ Petition No.15630 of 2006- Vishnu Dayal Sharma Vs.
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State of U.P. have not been received so far. The same be furnished without any further
delay to the Hon'ble Court latest by 25.04.2007 as they are to be placed before Hon'ble
Court on the next date of hearing on 10.05.2007.
Kindly treat this matter as most urgent.
C. L N0. 29/2s007 Dated: 29 August, 2007
In continuation of the court's earlier circular letters No. 4/2007, dated 20.2.2007
and 11/2007, dated 14.3.2007 issued in compliance of the directions given by the Hon'ble
Court in Criminal Misc. Writ Petition No. 15630 of 2006- Vishnu Dayal Sharma Vs.
State of U.P. and others, I am directed to communicate you that the Hon'ble Court has
been pleased to pass following orders dated 10.5.2007 in furtherance of earlier directions:
―.....the District Judge to submit information to this court in tabular form
in addition to any detailed information which they may like to furnish the
table should contain the following columns and entries: viz. district,
complainant (with name and address), name of missing child, date of
lodging of F.I.R., name of Counsel who provided legal aid, regularity of
attendance by lawyer, dt. of placing/ matter before Monitoring Committee
in monthly meeting difficulties/problems, and additional suggestions, dt.
of publication of information about missing child, medium (i.e. radio, T.V.
or newspaper), number of children recovered in the month (dead or
alive).‖

While enclosing herewith a copy of the order of Hon'ble Court along with Chart
in tabular form, I am to request you to kindly ensure strict compliance of the directions
quoted herein as above and to kindly send compliance report in the tabular from enclosed
herewith at the earliest.
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Enhancement in the maximum limit of the amount to be incurred on
arranging Lok Adalats
C.L. No. 40/VIId-108: dated: Allahabad: August 18, 2000
In the XI meeting of U.P. State Legal Services Authority, it was resolved that the
maximum limit of expenditure on Lok Adalats be enhanced to Rs. 5000/- and under
special circumstances the Executive Chairman can enhance it up to Rs.8000/-

In this regard I am directed to communicate that the maximum amount to be
incurred on a Lok Adalat has been enhanced to Rs. 5000/- and under special
circumstances to the extent of Rs. 8000/- with the permission of Executive Chairman,
U.P. State Legal Services Authority, Lucknow.
Matter for Printing of information about free legal services on the
notices/summons/warrants of the courts.
C.L. No. 35/2009/Admin. ̳G-II' Allahabad; Dated: July 20, 2009
Upon consideration of the letter No. F. No. L/16/2006 - NALSA/3001 dated 5th
March, 2009 of Sri G.M. Akbar Ali, the Member Secretary, National Legal Services
Authority, 12/11, Jam Nagar House, Shahjahan Road, New Delhi informing about
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 ̳Resolution of Central Authorities NALSA relating to free legal services on the
Notices/Summons/Warrants of the Courts.

The Hon'ble Court upon consideration of the matter has been pleased to
incorporate/add after the body of Notices/Summons/Warrants in the amendments of the
rules as in practice under Section 12 of the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987 as
under:-
―You are hereby informed that the free legal services from the State Legal
Services Authorities, High Court Legal Service Committees, District
Legal Services Authorities and Taluka Legal Services Committees, as per
eligibility criteria, are available to you and in case you are eligible and
desire to avail of the free legal services, you may contact any of the above
legal Services Authorities/Committees.‖

Therefore, I am directed to request you to kindly print the information in the
Notices/Summons/Warrants as desired and to bring the Amendment/contents of this
Circular Letter to all the Judicial Officers under your administration control for their
guidance and strict compliance.
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