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With the aim of making justice more accessible,a bill on right to justice is being drafted that will cater to the rights of the poorer sections of the society, said Veerappa Moily,Uunion Minister for Law and Justice. The setting up of five national institutes to train the law faculties to provide quality law education to students across the country is also in process,Moily said while addressing a seminar on Reforms in legal education at the Symbiosis International Institute at Lavale.
Apart from that,work on digitising the national law library is also on. The ministry is working on the establishment of an online legal e-learning network where anymore can access lectures and classes on legal subjects at anytime. Also,there are plans to set up law libraries in every district of the country.
S B Mujumdar,founder-director,Symbiosis International University said,We have students who are doing a five years course in law. However,the ones who want to do LLB prefer going to London as the course there is of one year as opposed to the two year course here. To this Moily answered,The proposal to reduce the time-span of LLM is already taking shape and should come into effect soon.
Moily also said that there was a need for the performance appraisal of not only the law schools but the judges as well. Talking to the students about the path to success,he stressed upon three words namely,expansion,inclusion and excellence to be the key elements in their journey. He put forth his wish of aspiring to see Indian lawyers turning into global players and called upon law schools to be pioneers in his endeavor. The focus of legal reform has historically been limited to improving infrastructure for the judiciary. The Indian lawyer must not only have improved legal skills but most importantly embody social responsibility and a strong professional ethic.
