Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry President Almas Hyder said that justice cannot be ensured until it is conveniently dispensed on the doorsteps of the people living below the poverty line.
He was speaking at the annual function of Free Legal Aid Society for the Help Less (FLASH) here at the Lahore Chamber of Commerce & Industry. President FLASH Shahid Ikram Siddiqui, Sheikh Abdul Majeed and Asif Saeed also spoke on the occasion.
Almas Hyder said that justice for all can ensure a peaceful society. He said that the right of having access to justice is indeed a fundamental right that should easily be available to each and every citizen of Pakistan. But in real terms how many of them actually happen to become recipients of justice when they are in dire need of it.
The rigors and inequities prevalent in our society in reality, however, make the obtaining of justice extremely difficult in the real life situations that confront our citizens. The LCCI president said that there is acute lack of financial resources that is an endemic fact of life in our country. This gets invariably coupled with the very wide spread ignorance that our citizens have in respect of legal procedure.
This naturally gets further accentuated for sheer lack of proper legal assistance from legal experts and the inability of the accused/litigant to get the services of counsel due to financial restraints. He lauded the efforts of Free Legal Aid Society for the Help Less (FLASH) for actively engaging in a broad spectrum of social welfare activities, particularly, for the weaker segments of the society.
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