Team  SoOLEGAL

1 DAY WORKSHOP ON "HOW TO PURSUE A PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION - FROM IDEA TO IMPLEMENTATION"

Team SoOLEGAL
Online (24 Jul 2020@ 06:00 pm - 24 Jul 2020@ 07:30 pm)

1 DAY WORKSHOP ON

What Will This Workshop Cover :

  • Overview of how PIL came into being and how it has evolved over decades.
  • What is a good subject matter for PIL and what is not : Learning to think like a lawyer
  • Who can pursue a PIL and whether a person can represent himself/herself in a PIL
  • What preparation is required before filing a PIL
  • Drafting a PIL
  • Filing a PIL
  • Arguing a PIL
  • Pursuing the case for a long time and what timelines to brace yourself for
  • Funding PIL
  • Frivolous PILs and why not to file them
  • Impact of PIL and PIL as an instrument of social and legal change
Date: Friday 24th July 2020 6:00 PM To 7.30 PM


*5% Discount to All SoOLEGAL Members 
Who can attend: Anyone Interested In This Subject. Prior legal knowledge is a plus but not mandatory.
*CERTIFICATE OF PARTICIPATION (Soft Coy) will be given to all Registered Attendees. 

PRESENTER PROFILE:

Avani is an Advocate in the Supreme Court of India, and founding partner of ‘Avani Bansal Chambers‘ (ABC). She runs ‘Hamara Kanoon’, a legal awareness project which explains important laws in simple Hindi in a video format on YouTube.

Avani has stellar academic records winning eight gold medals at Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur, India, where she pursued B.A. LL.B. (Honors). Thereafter she pursued BCL and M.Phil in Law from University of Oxford (UK), and LL.M. from Harvard Law School (USA).

While at Oxford, she was the President of Oxford Lawyers Without Borders, Associate Editor of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal and was the first law student to be ‘highly commended’ as part of the Vice Chancellor’s Civic Award scheme for her pro-bono work and community caring. She was a recipient of scholarship for an Academic Exchange Programme to Max Plank Institute for Comparative and International Private Law (Hamburg, Germany) and has interned with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva amongst others. At Harvard, Avani was the Co-President of her LL.M. class, Vice-President (Speaker Series) of Harvard India Student Group (HISG) and LL.M. Representative with South Asian Law Students Association. She received the Dean’s Award for Community Leadership at Harvard Law School.

Avani is passionate about access to justice, gender rights, pro-bono policy in India, constitutional law, environmental law and social change. She has delivered lectures around law schools in India and has been featured in the Week, Times of India, and in a short documentary on travelling amongst others. She loves to read and write in her spare time and has written several editorial pieces for Times of India. Link to Articles on TOI:

https://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/author/avanibansal

She can be contacted at advocateavanibansal@gmail.com.

Here are some other links that have covered Avani’s work :

Interview in Superlawyer: https://superlawyer.in/avani-bansal-on-winning-9-goldmedals-her-experience-as-a-judicial-clerk-studying-bcl-m-phil-from-oxford-andlitigation-at-district-high-court

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/avanibansal?trk=hp-identity-name

Short Video Covering Her Story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf4jHvhfPbE

Recent Interview with Siddharth Varadarajan of The Wire on the SC judges row at Facebook Live :

https://www.facebook.com/thewire.in/videos/1727916813949308/?hc_ref=ARRIlqjbuagl5RHoMzXkQJeibTWDr5Vz7KTirFdyiciK7aa37JeUrKjNyw4UXdAXNw&pnref=story

Interview in Hindi with ‘The Wire’ on Judges Loya’s death :

http://thewirehindi.com/31821/hum-bhi-bharat-episode-17-judge-loya-and-indianjudiciary/

‘The Week’’s Cover story: http://www.theweek.in/theweek/cover/genderdiscrimination-in-judiciary.html

Link to the project - ‘Hamara Kanoon’ which aims to create legal awareness by explaining simple laws in Hindi: https://www.youtube.com/user/AvaniBansal/videos

Coverage by Oxford Human Rights Hub of Hamara Kanoon :http://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/hamara-kanoon-our-law-a-tech-solution-to-create-legalawareness-in-india/

BBC Hindi Interview on Right to Privacy : https://www.facebook.com/bbchindi/videos/1700556199975948/

CNN News 18 Panel Discussion on Right to Privacy : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV3LsP6iMe8&t=18s

Avani is an author of the book 'Life At Law School' published by EBC. Check here : https://www.ebcwebstore.com/product_info.php?products_id=99095840

Also, she is one of the 25 professional covered in the book titled ‘On The Rise (Inspiring Stories of Young Legal Professionals in India)’ published by Universal.

02 Jul 2020 02:09 pm
Minlun  6 Aug 2020 9:48pm
It was a very wonderful sessions. Lots of queries could be raised and I'm quite content with the sessions.
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Arka Roy   30 Jul 2020 11:21am
it was a great workshop.very informative and fascinating.many aspects i did not know about writ .
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Tarang Chelawat   26 Jul 2020 12:00am
Amazing session. Avani ma'am is probably one of the finest faculties. Her way of explanation helps one understand complex concepts in a better way.
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Neha Singh  25 Jul 2020 9:51pm
Wonderful session!! Very relevant information on PIL was shared by Avani ji.. I honestly think that her workshop should not be missed!!
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Neha Singh  25 Jul 2020 9:51pm
Wonderful session!! Very relevant information on PIL was shared by Avani ji.. I honestly think that her workshop should not be missed!!
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Prarthana Kumari  25 Jul 2020 12:48am
Such a marvelous evening to get an opportunity to attend a great workshop organised by SoOlegal with Advocate Avani Bansal mam.Its really very useful read more
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Vivekanand Ahuja   25 Jul 2020 12:17am
It was extremely informative and very helpful. The best part was that the fact that I am not from a legal background, did not hinder me from understanding read more
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Sanyogita Tiwari   25 Jul 2020 12:02am
Avani Ma’am Thanks for a wonderful and stimulating Webinar and thank you, organisers, for your generosity in organizing the conference. The session was read more
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Abhinab Choudhury  24 Jul 2020 7:50pm
Adv. Avani Thank you for such an wonderful session & the topic on PIL you briefed it was absolutely interesting. Got to know many things unknown as a read more
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SIVANI SRIVASTAVA  24 Jul 2020 7:43pm
The webinar was superb. The things covered regarding PIL was broad and every interesting, since I am not from the legal field but learned a lot about read more
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Dr. Ashok Yende   24 Jul 2020 7:42pm
Webinar lecture of Adv. Avani Bansal enlightened us in brief, important facets and parameters of PIL in simple language. It was wonderful.
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  24 Jul 2020 5:45pm
Name: Aryaman Singh Cell No: 9487760122 E-Mail: AryamanS291998@gmail.com I actually just came to know about this webinar just half an hour ago and decided read more
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  24 Jul 2020 5:49pm
I have received the link. Thank you so much! I apologize for these multiple messages. I was unaware of how the system worked so I kept clicking on 'send' read more
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  24 Jul 2020 5:45pm
Name: Aryaman Singh Cell No: 9487760122 E-Mail: AryamanS291998@gmail.com I actually just came to know about this webinar just half an hour ago and decided read more
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  24 Jul 2020 5:45pm
Name: Aryaman Singh Cell No: 9487760122 E-Mail: AryamanS291998@gmail.com I actually just came to know about this webinar just half an hour ago and decided read more
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  24 Jul 2020 5:21pm
Joining Link has been emailed to all participants. See you at the Session !
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