“In India, public interest litigation expanded access to justice,” Abhishek Singhvi said.
It brought bonded labourers, undertrial prisoners, environmental degradation, gender discrimination, and so on, under judicial scrutiny.
“That movement was not driven by corporate incentive; it was driven by moral imagination and reason,” he said.
“The measure of a legal system is not how it treats the powerful when they are secure, but how it treats the vulnerable when they are exposed. Law at its noblest is a shield for those without a voice,” he added.
– Suruchi. K
