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Fellowship for Young Lawyers
Committee for Legal Aid to Poor
(CLAP)
(Registered under Societies
Registration Act, 1860)
Young Lawyers for Justice
Fellowship Programme
(Supported by
Department of Justice, Government of India &UNDP)
The Committee for
Legal Aid to Poor (CLAP), Legal Support and Juridical Advocacy
Organization invites application from motivated young lawyers
permanently residing in the district of Bolangir,Cuttack, Ganjam,
Kalahandi,Keonjhar,Khurda,Koraput Mayurbhanj, Nayagarh, & Nawrangpur,
for Young Lawyers for Justice Fellowship Programme.
Age Limit: 22-40
years as on 1st December 2011.
Qualification &
Experiences: Applicant must have duly enrolled his/her name under
the Advocates Act, 1961 in State Bar Council, Odisha and shall have
experiences of not more than 7 years in court practice.
Fellowship:
Selected lawyers
shall be offered with a fellowship for 12 months starting from
January 2012.
Selection Test:
Only short-listed
applicants to the Young Lawyers for Justice Fellowship Programme
shall be called to appear interview before Selection Board.
Training:
The selected
lawyers shall be provided with training by CLAP on various laws
concerning to human rights, gender justice, child rights, rights and
entitlements of marginalized people, social lawyering, legal
drafting, law- based conciliation, etc. The trainings shall cover
on strategic application of law in addressing the vulnerabilities of
the victims. The trained young lawyers after the training programme
shall work with community, NGOs, Legal Services Authorities, Police
system and NHRIs for securing the best access of disadvantaged to
justice system. The fellowship programme shall be useful for the
professional excellence of young lawyers without disturbing their
regular court practice.
Expectation from
Fellow Lawyers:
Fellow lawyers
will be expected to test training lesson locally through assigned
task such as conducting legal awareness for the marginalised
people at the community level, legal aid clinic, and undertaking
action research on issues of the marginalised communities in their
respective areas in association with local NGOs, District Legal
Services Authority through financial support and guidance of CLAP.
The trained lawyers shall be engaged in the following activities
with the support of the proposed fellowship programme:
1. Reaching out to
the communities with the help of Legal Resource Network of CLAP.
2. Conducting
Legal Aid Clinics at the Community to provide necessary legal
assistance to the disadvantaged for addressing their
vulnerabilities.
3. Forwarding the
complaints regarding the human right violations to Human Rights
Commission.
4. Referring the
cases to Legal Services Authorities for free of cost legal
intervention.
5. Ensuring legal
representation of the marginalized and disadvantaged sections living
in their local area in judicial proceedings.
6. Educating the
local community members about their rights through awareness
programmes
7. Training of
paralegal workers identified by the District Legal Service
Authorities or by the local NGOs.
8. Documenting
case studies, processes adopted, barriers/challenges encountered and
outcome of their intervention.
9. Offering
conciliation services for amicable settlement of disputes without
court intervention.
10. Identifying
the local issues which affects the local populace at large and
develop a local advocacy plan for addressing those issues through
legal intervention strategies.
11. Conducting
action research on the issues of marginalized people in their
respective areas.
Last Date for
Submission of Application:
Application from
interested lawyers along-with bio-data, passport size photograph,
testimonials in support to the educational qualification and
Advocate enrolment number, Suitability Note describing the
Expression of Interest and copy of the publication or article, if
any, should reach by 24th December 2011 at Committee for Legal
Aid to Poor, Bimala Devi Memorial Building, 367, Markatnagar,
Sector-6, CDA, Cuttack-753014, Odisha, Telephone-0671-2363980 or
through mail to: clap_india@dataone.in. Applications reaching after
due date shall not be entertained.
Executive Director
Committee for Legal Aid to Poor
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