Theme: Trending Community Development through Paralegal in Asia: Paralegal practice.
The Network of Women Lawyers for Research and Change conducted a roundtable discussion on the scope, practices, gaps and need for paralegal practices and its role in enhancing access to justice in Nepalese context. This roundtable generated concrete and innovative recommendations on how the community para-legalism could be pursued with new vigor today and in the future. The roundtable will comprise of judges, former judges, senior lawyers, paralegal actors, representatives of civil society including law students. Prakhar Dixit spoke on "Existing paralegal practices in India".