“LOK ADALAT”2023

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Delhi State Legal Services Authority’s Scope of

Services:

Free legal services can be availed from Delhi State Legal Services Authority, High Court Legal Services Committee and from all the District Legal Services Authorities situated at the premises of Delhi District Court by all the entitled persons as per rules of the act.

Services provided by Delhi State Legal Services Authority:-
1. LegalAid
2. Helpline1516
3. OneStopCentres
4. LegalLiteracy
5. Mediation
6. Legal Services Clinics

• Provide free and competent legal aid and servicesby advising on legal aspects and assigning lawyers to following categories:
  1. SC or ST
  2. Victim of trafficking or begar
  3. Women or Child
  4. Person with disabilities
  5. Victim of Mass Disaster / Ethnic Violence / Caste Atrocity / Flood / Earthquake or Industrial disaster
  6. Industrial Workmen
  7. In Custody / Protective Home / Juvenile Home / Psychiatric Hospital / Psychiatric Nursing Home
  8. Person having annual income less than  3 Lac
  9. Senior Citizen having annual income less than  4 Lac
  10. Transgender annual income less than  4 Lac
  11. Acid Attack Victim
  12. Person infected and affected with HIV AIDS
• Runs Helpline Number 1516to give quick and easy access to legal advice and services.
• Runs a Whatsapp Number : 9667992802 for the Victims of Domestic Violence
• Conduct Legal Service Clinics
• Conducts Lok Adalats, Special Lok Adalats and Permanent Lok Adalats
• Conducts Legal awareness Programmesfor general masses.
• Conducts Pre-Institution Mediation in Commercial Matters
• Granting compensation to the victims under the Delhi Victims Compensation Scheme 2018

Delhi State Legal Services Authority organizes Lok Adalats for settlement of all types of pending and pre-litigation Civil and Criminal Compoundable cases regularly every month at all the 11 Districts in Delhi. DSLSA organizes Lok Adalats in District Courts, High Court, Central Administrative Tribunal, District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forums, State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Debt Recovery Tribunals, Company Law Board & Revenue Courts.

Nature of Cases to be Referred to Lok Adalat

1. Any case pending before any court.
2. Any dispute which has not been brought before any court and is likely to be filed before the court.
3. Provided that any matter relating to an offence not compoundable under the law shall not be settled in Lok Adalat.

How to get the Case Referred to the Lok Adalat for Settlement

1. Case pending before the court :-

If the parties agree to settle the dispute in Lok Adalat or One of the parties makes an application to the court or The court is satisfied that the matter is an appropriate one for settlement in Lok Adalat.

2. Any dispute at pre-litigative stage.

The State Legal Services Authority or District Legal Services Authority as the case may be on receipt of an application from any one of the parties to any pre-litigation stage matter refer such matter to the Lok Adalat for amicable settlement.

The other type of Lok Adalat is the Permanent Lok Adalat, organized under Section 22-B of The Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987. Permanent Lok Adalats have been set up as permanent bodies with a Chairman and two members for providing compulsory pre-litigative mechanism for conciliation and settlement of cases relating to Public Utility Services like transport, postal, telegraph etc. Here, even if the parties fail to reach to a settlement, the Permanent Lok Adalat gets jurisdiction to decide the dispute, provided, the dispute does not relate to any offence. Further, the Award of the Permanent Lok Adalat is final and binding on all the parties. The jurisdiction of the Permanent Lok Adalats is upto Rs. One Crore.