The POS goes to the police station and ensures that the arrested person receives legal assistance, if necessary through the nearest legal aid structures. VLPs visit prisons, prisons, psychiatric hospitals, children`s homes/observation homes with appropriate permission from the DLSA/TLSC and determine prisoners` needs for legal services and inform the relevant authorities of the lack of basic necessities, with particular emphasis on hygiene. VLPs report child rights violations, child labour, missing children and trafficking in girls to the nearest legal aid centres or to the Child Welfare Board. Some educated and educated prisoners serving long sentences in central and county jails can be identified as volunteer paralegals. Their services are available to other prisoners in prison, including remand prisoners. The formation of these POS can be carried out at the same time as their POS. L B Nagar: The three-day training courses for paralegal volunteers under the auspices of Ranga Reddy district, Nyaya Seva Sadan, ended on Sunday. Volunteer paralegals are designed to raise awareness of the benefits of cost-effective dispute resolution related to public services such as telephone and telephone, electricity, water, insurance, and hospital services through Permanent Lok Adalat (PLA). Volunteer paralegals inform individuals on their behalf about the activities of SLSA/DLSA/TLSC/HCLSC/SCLSC legal services and provide their addresses to individuals so that they can use the free services provided by the above organizations to eligible individuals. The Secretary, DLSA or TLSC may assign one or more POS to operate the offices or legal services. POS for the distribution of information brochures and other publications of legal services authorities during legal literacy classes. Volunteer paralegals support the DLSA/TLSC in organizing legal awareness camps in their area of operation. Paralegal volunteers are required to submit monthly reports on their activities to the DLSA/TLSC under which they work in the prescribed format.
Volunteer paralegals must ensure that promotional materials on legal services are posted in prominent places within their area of practice. Paralegal volunteers who help in legal literacy classes and camps: – POS are not only expected to raise awareness of the laws and the legal system, but they must also be trained to discuss and amicably resolve simple disputes between the parties at the source themselves; This could avoid those affected having to go to the legal services authority or alternative dispute resolution centres. If the dispute is of such a nature that it cannot be resolved at source with the help of the LCVs, they could refer these parties to the alternative dispute resolution centres, where they could be referred to the Lok Adalat or mediation centre with the assistance of the relevant secretary, or legal assistance could be provided for the decision before a court; depending on the nature of the problem. In view of the illiteracy of much of the Community, the Western concept of “paralegals” cannot be fully transferred to Indian conditions: the hours of training that apply to a regular academic course cannot be covered. It should be more of a bridging course, designed in a simple, needs-based module. POS must be trained in the basics of various laws that are at the local level in terms of daily life, the subtle nuances applied in the work of a judicial system and the functioning of various other interest groups such as the police, officials of the Ministry of Social Affairs, the Department of Women and Child Welfare and other departments dealing with various useful systems of central and state governments. including the protection officers concerned. with laws on domestic violence and juvenile justice. Paralegal volunteers are designed to educate people about the benefits of dispute resolution, including the pre-litigation phase through lok adalats, arbitration, mediation and arbitration. One of the objectives of the “Access to Justice for All Policy” developed by the national legal services authorities is to develop “paralegal services” to raise awareness of the law among all segments of the population. POS, in consultation with the nearest legal aid structures in the area where they operate, organize micro-literacy camps by organizing legal literacy classes for small groups of people, including workers, women, children of scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, etc.
The District Legal Services Authority hired 93 paralegal volunteers (POPs) for 2014-2015 and placed all of them in legal aid clinics operating throughout its territory.