“LAW AND JUSTICE IN INDIA PROGRAMME (organised by NLU Odisha in association with Centurion University on 14 and 18 November 2022)”
National Law University Odisha in association with Centurion University of Technology and Management, Bhubaneswar conducted the “Law and Justice in India” programme for students and faculty members of Victoria University, Australia on 14 and 18 November 2022. The participants of the course consisted of 9 undergraduate law students and 2 faculty members from Victoria University.
As part of the programme, faculty members of NLU Odisha offered lecture sessions on wide ranging topics from ‘Access to Justice’, to ‘Legal Environment on Business and Addressing Corruption’, to ‘Workers Rights and Labour Law’. These lectures were to introduce the Australian students to how different areas of law work in practice in various parts of India.
Apart from the sessions, faculty members of NLU Odisha accompanied the Australian visitors to the High Court of Orissa and the Judicial Magistrate Court, Cuttack (Rural). This enabled the visitors to witness live sessions and get exposure to the judicial process prevalent in India. The visitors also got to visit the Record Room, Digitization Centre, High Court of Odisha. There they got to know how judgements and court records of as early as the 1800’s are being stored.
The Australian team also visited the Juvenile Justice Board and Child Welfare Committee, Cuttack to know about the working of the institutions for the care, protection, rehabilitation and welfare of children. The visitors were also taken to the Odisha State Legal Services Authority and the Village Legal Aid Centre at Dompada, Odisha. This helped them to understand the application of concepts like Lok Adalats, preventive and strategic legal aid programmes etc.
