Kathmandu. The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has provided free legal services to 1,606 residents of the metropolis in a span of 43 months. The metropolis has started free legal services from March 15, 2022 with an aim to ensure easy access to justice at the local level.
According to KMC, legal services have been made available to the people of the metropolis by mobilizing the students of Bachelor’s and Master’s level in law subjects in various universities and colleges as interns.
So far, 313 interns from seven teaching institutions including Nepal Law Campus, National Law College, Kathmandu School of Law, Chakraborty Law College, Prithvi Narayan Campus, Pokhara, Lumbini Buddhist University and Kathmandu University have been engaged in the student service.
According to KMC, 11,463 senior citizens, 456 people with disabilities, 175 children and 42,188 women have availed legal services free of cost.
The KMC has been implementing various programmes aimed at making the local justice system effective, resolving disputes through mediation and providing easy access to justice to the people of the metropolis.
KMC has also made arrangements to form and activate ward women network in every ward office, establish and operate mediation center in every ward, provide basic and special mediation training and provide free legal services through ward offices and centers.
The metropolis has introduced legal provisions including the Dispute Settlement Work Procedure Act, Ward Women Network Operation Procedure, Mediation Centre Operation Directive and Legal Aid Procedures for the implementation of local judicial system.
The metropolis had signed an agreement with Nepal Law Campus on January 3, 2022 to provide free legal services to the students. According to the data so far, the metropolis has been providing free legal services to 115 people on an average daily and 3,457 people monthly.
According to the metropolis, judicial facilitators have been deployed in the center and all wards. The judicial facilitators help in preparing the necessary legal documents by studying and evaluating the documents, evidence, and factual details provided by the service recipients.
The judicial facilitators are also responsible for preparing the drafts of applications, complaints, complaints, plaintiffs, counter-respondents, written replies and settlement documents to be submitted on behalf of the service seekers and provide oral information about the legal provisions and procedures.
According to KMC, it is the main responsibility of the judicial facilitator to prepare the words, language, sentences and expressions used in legal instruments in a polite, civilized, dignified manner and in accordance with the prevailing laws.
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