5 Legal Aid

1. The framework: the Legal Aid Act, 2054 (1998) and the Legal Aid Rules, 2055 (1999): the statutory scheme — the legal-aid committees (the central committee at the SC's apex; the High-Court-and-district committees): the indigent-and-vulnerable applicants' screening; the deputed-and-panel advocates' assignment; the costs-and-fees' state support;2. The constitutional-and-treaty floor: Article 20(10) — the indigent's free legal aid right (verified: "An indigent person shall have the right to free legal aid as provided for by law"); the Article 46's remedy linkage; the ICCPR's Article 14(3)(d) face (the international anchor);3. The practice-and-institutions: the courts' legal-aid sections; the NGO-lawyers' movement (the FWLD, the LACC, Pro-Public-and-the cause-lawyering organizations — the PIL-and-rights bar's social wing); the law-school clinics' contribution (the student-practitioners' aid); the legal- aid's reach-and-gaps (the urban concentration; the awareness-and-take-up problem; the quality-and-continuity questions);4. The assessment: the aid as the access-to-justice promise's test (the constitutional right's delivery machinery — the "justice for all" as the system's measure) — the aid's expansion-and- deepening as the profession's-and-state's joint unfinished duty.