Equity vs. Obligation: An Examination of How Mandatory Pro Bono will Affect Young Lawyers and the Justice Gap

The word justice simply signifies righteousness, reasonableness and just treatment. Access to justice means everyone is equally getting easily access to this justice system. Access to justice is the basis of rule of law without this no one can get access to justice even their rights are being hampered or an offence being committed against them. But in India there are lots of obstacles have on the path of this access to justice system i.e. Complex legal procedure, huge advocate fees, poverty, illiteracy, lack of infrastructure etc. And poverty among them is prevalent cause. India's maximum people have lower income and illiterate as well. Therefore they are not getting accessed to this justice system. Consequently many jurist or politicians suggesting to make pro bono legal services mandatory for lawyers to mitigate this issues. In this paper we will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this thinking. And also will define the various term related to this.