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‘Legal Aid’ includes legal advice, assistance, representation, legal education, information, awareness, and other services through ADR, LokAdalats in compoundable cases, etc. The main objectives of this paper are understanding the concept of legal aid as an essential element of “fair and reasonable” proceedings. In this paper, the main focus is on the historical perspective of free legal concept through which the present legal aid movement gets the momentum. In historical perspective, many stages have been discussed from the ancient period to till now. Legal aid is a socio-economic tool to achieve equal justice.

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