A daylong training programme titled ‘public interest litigation’ was held at Rajshahi University on Friday. The training programme was organised by the Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust, marking the launch of Rajshahi Law Clinic. RU vice-chancellor Muhammad Mizanuddin was present as chief guest while pro-vice-chancellor Chowdhury Sarowar Jahan and BLAST executive director Sara Hossain was present as special guests in the inauguration ceremony.
Md Hasibul Alam Pradhan, adviser of Rajshahi law clinic of BLAST presided over the programme.
Speakers in the programme urged the lawyers not to take advantage of the helplessness of under-privileged or poor people when they rush to the lawyers for advice and legal assistance.
Sara Hossain said, ‘We have to give legal advice especially to poor and helpless people who are deprived of natural justice because of financial and other constraints.’
She also urged the
law students to create a motion in their mindedness for working to establish public rights in profession life.
RU law faculty dean Bishwajit Chandra, progressive teachers’ society convener Ananda Kumer Saha and Nazmus Sadat and Abdus Samad, BLAST Rajshahi unit management committee president and coordinator respectively, and BLAST resource person and also high court lawyer Shahriar Sakir spoke at the programme among others.
RU law department lecturer Sadiqul Islam Sagor and Shibly Islam conducted the programme.
A total of three sessions titled ‘concepts, techniques and practice of public interest lawyering’, ‘public interest litigation as a strategy of public interest litigation’ and ‘alternative dispute resolution and government legal aid programme in Bangladesh’ were held in the training programme.
About 55 students of law participated in the training programme.
-With New Age input
