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National Judicial and Legal Education
Law and Justice, two eminent academicians from law and
three or four from different fields and the Chairman of the Research Organization have to be constituted
Bar Council of India in order to take forward the proposed on the lines of IITs, IIMS with four regional
changes and to suggest necessary amendments to branches to train District judges, judicial
Constitution. officers, young Lawyers, Law teachers, Legal
and Legislative wings of Union and States
The Committee maybe empowered to work out the
has to be promoted through this organization for potential
details to constitute a Judicial Appointments Authority and
legislations. This body has to promote cross cutting edge
to introduce the National Judicial Services on the lines of
of inter disciplinary studies, paralegal courses, and also
Civil Services including financial perspectives based on
policies for the corporate legal personnel.
Judicial Impact Assessment. The Committee also needs Digitalization:
to examine to restructure the entire legal education and to
Openness, transparency is hallmarks of constitution
introduce legal studies from the ninth standard onwards
and access to ‘Open judicial and legal’ system are
and to have a stream at plus two and undergraduate
fundamental rights of public at large. Though National
levels. The present legal education has to be uniformly
Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy advocates on the
fixed at four years of study with a focused attention on
treatment and access to information, for varied reasons
practical orientation than theoretical inculcation.
and complexityof judicial and legal system are preventing
At the same time, a National Judicial and Legal
easy access to litigants of entire process due to lack of
Education Research Organizationhave to be constituted
standard models for updating information. The efforts
on the lines of IITs, IIMS withfour regional branches to
of Justice Department could not yield the results due to
train District judges, judicial officers, young Lawyers, Law
density in browsing information, and confining to litigant
Teachers, Legal and Legislative wings of Union and States.
perspective and lack of publicity, and regular coordination
It needs to focus on legal education to bring in techno,
is required between judiciary, legislative and Ministerial
socio, cultural changes that are necessary as the NEP’s
wings of Union and States. In order to prudently adopt
advocation of stand in alone Universities are going to be
the suggestions of the World Bank and World Wide
multidisciplinary Universities. Further, the organization
Web Consortium (W3C) and other technical expertise,
may provide training to law teachers with judicial and
the proposed above research institutes establishment
legislative nuances to have a practical exposure. For
needs meritorious consideration than expecting existing
better legal governance in the country to bridge the gap
law schools to discharge these functions. The Covid19
between academics, judges, practitioners and legislative
initiates of e-filing, e serving and e courts has to be
organs, the judicial discourse courses and research
augmented which will definitely in the longer run could
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