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SEMINAR-LEGAL-AID (with picture)
Call to reach cost-free legal aid services to poor
RANGPUR, July 1, 2018 (BSS) – Officials of the judiciary at a seminar here
have called upon all concerned to reach the cost-free legal services to the
poor to ensure justice for them to make the government’s legal aid services
programme successful.
The District Legal Aid Committee (DLAC) in association with Chandanpat
union parishad organised the seminar on “Government’s Legal Aid Services and
Success of Alternative Dispute Resolution, ” at Shahbazpur High School
auditorium under Sadar upazila on Saturday afternoon.
Senior District and Sessions Judge and President of the DLAC ABM Nizamul
Haque presided over the seminar.
The judges, members of the DLAC, upazila and union legal aid committees,
police officers, leading personalities, religious leaders, human rights and
NGO activists, public representatives and local elite participated.
Judge of the Women and Children Repression Special Tribunal Md
Rokunuzzaman, Additional District and Sessions Judges Golam Rasul and Dr
Abdul Mazid, Chief Judicial Magistrate Haider Ali, Additional Police Super
Saifur Rahman, District Legal Aid Officer Marjia Khatun, Sadar Upazila
Chairman Nasima Zaman Boby and Chairman of Chandanpat union Aminur Rahman,
among others, addressed.
The speakers narrated the mass publicity on providing legal aid to the poor
by appointing lawyers at free of cost under government assistance and success
in dispute reconciliation already achieved through village arbitration
meetings.
ABM Nizamul Haque thanked the government for taking the responsibility of
providing cost free legal aid services to the poor for ensuring justice for
them.
He laid emphasis on ensuring proper coordination among the officials and
organisations concerned in reaching cost-free legal services to the poor and
inspiring common people to avail advantage of the alternative dispute
resolution programme.
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