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History of Clinical Legal Education During British rule, legal education
in India followed the general colonial model of producing clerks, not
managers or advocates. Its primary goal was to support the existing
financial interests of England, certainly not to reform the local legal
profession (Government of India, Calcutta 1930).
After independence, legal education was expected to bring the legal
system in tune with the social, economic, and political desires of the
country. With 500 law schools and 40,000 law students graduating
every year, law schools could play a pivotal role in promoting and
providing justice, particularly through the field of legal aid.
For the first time in 1949, the Bombay Legal Education Committee
recommended that practical courses should be made compulsory
only for students who choose to enter the profession of law and the
teaching method should include seminars or group discussions, moot
court competitions etc
To produce lawyers.
To expose students to the problems
of client and also to deal with them.
To understand limitation of traditional
legal system.
Putting students in professional
world.
Clinical Programmes
To achieve the objective of Clinical
legal education enumbers of
practical courses are introduced by
BCI.
Programmes such as:
Moot Court
Legal Aid
Mock trials
Lok Adalats
Mediation Clinics
N.G.O and legal education programs.
ADR clinics.
Legal Awareness camps.
Counseling
Legal Aid clinics.
Conclusion
The introduction of clinical legal education programs in
Indian law schools is critical to teaching essential skills to law
students and instilling in them the importance of social
justice. Effective clinics provide legal services to poor and
marginalized groups that would not otherwise receive them.
Though the BCI has made it mandatory to have clinical legal
education in the curriculum, the institutions are not showing
much interest in adopting the necessary skills.
Therefore, the law and legal education which together
constitute the backbone of society should change according
to the changing needs and interests of the ever changing
society. Hence, not only the law colleges even the authorities
have to take steps to initiate clinical legal education in an
effective manner.
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