LEGAL AID AND FAIR TRIAL: ANALYZING CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS AND PROCEDURAL BARRIERS

AUTHOR – JANVI BHARTI* & VATSAL CHAUDHARY**

* STUDENT AT LAW COLLEGE DEHRADUN, UTTARANCHAL UNIVERSITY. EMAIL: DABIYANJANVI@GMAIL.COM

** ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, LAW COLLEGE, DEHRADUN, UTTARANCHAL UNIVERSITY, EMAIL: VATSALCHAUDHARY@UUMAIL.IN

BEST CITATION – JANVI BHARTI & VATSAL CHAUDHARY, LEGAL AID AND FAIR TRIAL: ANALYZING CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS AND PROCEDURAL BARRIERS, INDIAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL REVIEW (IJLR), 5 (5) OF 2025, PG. 933-938, APIS – 3920 – 0001 & ISSN – 2583-2344

Abstract

There is a linked concept of legal aid and fair trial serve as essential features for constitutional democracies with specific emphasis on India. Foreign to the Indian Constitution Article 21 establishes these rights as vital protects that enable justice access and enforce the rule of law. The document analyzes legal aid delivery mechanisms through Indian constitutional applications and Supreme Court rulings and Legal Services Authorities Act 1987 statutory guidelines. The document defines essential fair trial conditions and spotlights essential institutional limitations which block their execution by showing insufficient legal information access along with bad representation and extended judicial processes and discriminatory systems. The article provides practical recommendations for legal awareness and service quality improvement that uses technology within judicial processes and draws its insights from UK, USA, and South African experiences. The system needs an integrated rights-focused strategy to convert theory into actual delivery of legal aid services for disadvantaged groups.