Odisha State Legal Service Authority

State Government vide Law Department Notification No. 8010/L dated 5.5.1981 introduced Orissa State Legal Aid and Advice Scheme under Orissa State Legal Aid and Advice Programme and constituted Orissa Legal Aid and Advice Board for providing free legal Services to the Weaker Sections of the Community. The Parliament further enacted the Legal Services Authorities Act 1987 (Act No.39 of 1997) which isbasically aimed to provide free and competent legal services to the weaker sections of the society to ensure that opportunities for securing justice are not denied to any citizen by reason of economic or other disabilities and to organize Lok Adalat to secure that the operation of the legal system promotes justice on a basis of equal opportunities.nnThe Legal Services Authorities Act 1987 was amended by Act No.59/94 and finally came into force on 9th November, 1995 . Further this Act was amended by Act No. 37/02 by which ChapterVI-A was inserted for pre-litigation, Conciliation and Settlement.nnWith the enactment of Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987 the erstwhile Orissa State Legal Aid Advice Board was dissolved vide gazette Notification No.115 dated 1.2.1997.nnThe State Legal Services Authority has been constituted by the State Government in the Law Department Notification No. 15664/LAP dated 23.9.96. The present Executive Chairman, Hon’ble Kumari Justice Sanju Panda, Judge, Orissa High Court has assumed the office as such on 06.12.2018 vide Govt. of Odisha Law Department Notification published in the Odisha Gazette vide No.LSA-67/18-13237/L Dtd. 05.12.2018.

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