Legal Aid Services we offer -Kanoon Sutra

Why Legal Aid Matters

Justice shouldn’t be a privilege — it must remain a right accessible to all, regardless of wealth or background. For many people — daily wage workers, small-town residents, marginalized communities, survivors of domestic violence, people with limited income — the cost of hiring a lawyer can feel overwhelming. Legal complexity, procedural delays, lack of awareness of rights — these often become barriers to justice.

Legal aid bridges that gap. It offers affordable or free legal support, empowers vulnerable individuals with knowledge, protects their rights, and ensures that justice remains within reach, not out of reach. For our law firm, providing legal aid isn’t just a service — it’s a commitment to fairness, equality, and social responsibility.

When you seek legal aid, you’re not entering a discount deal — you’re engaging a dedicated support system aimed at helping you navigate laws, understand your rights, and secure fair outcomes with dignity.

Who Can Benefit from Legal Aid Services

Our legal aid services are designed to help:

Low-income individuals and families
Women, children, and senior citizens
Survivors of domestic violence, harassment or abuse
Victims of social injustice or exploitation
Minorities and marginalized communities
People facing criminal charges or civil disputes but lacking financial resources
People seeking free legal advice or pro-bono representation
Persons needing help with legal documentation, compliance, or dispute resolution but unable to afford regular legal fees

What Our Legal Aid Services Cover

We provide a full range of legal aid services across civil, criminal, family, consumer, labour, human-rights, property-dispute and social-justice matters. Our commitment is to ensure legal empowerment, not just litigation.

• Free or Low-Cost Initial Consultation & Case Assessment

We begin with a no-cost assessment of your case — understand facts, documents, risks and likely challenges. We explain legal options in plain language, without jargon, helping you make informed choices from Day 1.

• Pro-Bono or Litigant-Friendly Fee Structures

Wherever possible, we offer pro-bono representation — especially for genuine victims, vulnerable persons, or litigants with no financial means. When pro-bono is not feasible, we propose moderated fee schedules, transparent cost estimates, and flexible payment plans.

• Representation in Civil Courts, Criminal Courts & Tribunals

Our firm represents legal-aid clients in a variety of courts and tribunals: civil suits, consumer courts, family courts, criminal courts, labour tribunals, property disputes — ensuring that access to justice spans all domains.

• Family-Law Support: Divorce, Maintenance, Custody, Domestic Violence

Recognizing that family-law issues disproportionately affect vulnerable persons (women, children, senior citizens), we offer full legal aid support for domestic violence complaints, maintenance applications, divorce filings (where justified), custody proceedings, and protection orders.

• Criminal-Justice Aid: Defence & Victim Support

Whether you are wrongly accused or a victim of crime, we provide legal representation, bail applications, filings, evidence support, and navigation of criminal procedure — ensuring fair trial and protection of rights even under limited means.

• Consumer Rights & Social Justice Litigation

We help consumers, workers, tenants, and citizens fight exploitation — unfair practices, labour disputes, unfair dismissal, property fraud, harassment, harassment by landlords, consumer rights violations, and social-welfare claims, often under consumer protection, labour, tenancy or human-rights laws.

• Property & Land Dispute Resolution for Economically Weaker Persons

Land, tenancy, inheritance — property disputes often trap vulnerable people. We provide legal aid for disputes involving small plots, ancestral lands, tenant rights, Partition suits, land-right claims, and other property-related cases.

• Representation in Civil Courts, Criminal Courts & Tribunals

• Legal Documentation & Advisory for Social Welfare — Government Schemes, Social Security, Identity Documents

We assist clients in legal aid with documentation needs: applying for government welfare schemes, identity cards, social security pensions, legal heir certificates, property transfer deeds, wills, affidavits — enabling people to access their basic rights without legal barriers.

• Mediation, Alternative Dispute Resolution & Settlement Support

Court battles are not always the solution. For many social, family- or civil-disputes, mediation or out-of-court settlement offers faster, less traumatic resolution. We provide mediation support, negotiate equitable settlements, and draft legally sound agreements — minimizing cost, delay, and emotional harm.

• Legal Education & Rights Awareness — Workshops & Community Outreach

Access to justice begins with awareness. We conduct periodic legal-awareness camps, rights-education workshops, community outreach programs, especially in rural or under-represented areas, to inform citizens about their rights and procedural mechanisms.

Our Approach to Legal Aid

1.Human-Centered Legal Support

We treat each client as a person — not a case number. We listen first, understand context, evaluate vulnerability, and then craft legal strategies. We avoid complex legal jargon; instead, we explain rights, options, and consequences in plain language.

2 Transparent & Affordable Legal Framework

We believe in clarity. From the very first meeting, clients understand what services we provide, what costs (if any) are applicable, what timelines to expect, and what options they have. Hidden fees, surprise bills, or ambiguous terms have no place. For clients genuinely unable to pay, we strive for full pro-bono support or minimal-cost representation.

3 Long-Term Support & Empowerment

Legal aid often begins with a complaint or dispute — but our goal extends beyond: we help clients understand their rights for the future. We assist with documentation, social-welfare registration, compliance, protective agreements, and advisory support to prevent future disputes. Legal aid for us is not just reactive — it is preventive and empowering.

TYPES OF LEGAL AID CASES WE HANDLE

1. Domestic Violence, Harassment & Protection of Women

Domestic violence cases often unfold quietly behind closed doors. Survivors usually endure fear, shame, lack of financial independence, or pressure from family. Many hesitate to seek help because they believe legal support will be expensive or complicated.

1.1 Protection Orders

These orders stop the aggressor from committing further violence. Courts can prohibit the abuser from:

Entering the shared household
Approaching the survivor
Communicating aggressively
Threatening or coercing
Removing children
Harassing family

1.2 Residence Orders

A woman has a legal right to stay in her matrimonial home — even if her name is not on the property title.
Residence orders protect against illegal eviction.

1.3 Maintenance & Financial Relief

We help survivors secure:

Monthly maintenance
Emergency monetary relief
Medical expenses
Child support
Compensation for emotional abuse

1.4 Support During Divorce Proceedings

For survivors seeking separation, we provide:

Legal drafting
Counselling
Safe-house referrals
Strategic representation

1.5 Police Assistance & FIR Registration

We stand with the survivor through the intimidating process of:

Filing FIRs
Recording statements
Seeking protection from police
Ensuring their safety

2 Criminal Legal Aid — Defence & Victim Rights

Criminal cases escalate rapidly. Without representation, innocent individuals may face: Wrongful arrest, Extended jail time , Coerced confession, Lost evidence ,Denial of bail