Public Interest Litigation (PIL) is a legal process that allows individuals, groups, or organizations to seek judicial intervention in matters of public interest. It is primarily used to protect and enforce rights, promote social justice, and hold governments or authorities accountable for their actions or inactions. PIL can address a wide range of issues, including environmental protection, human rights violations, corruption, consumer rights, and administrative inefficiencies.
Unlike traditional litigation, where the petitioner must have a direct personal stake, PIL enables concerned citizens or organizations to file cases on behalf of disadvantaged or affected communities. It plays a crucial role in strengthening democracy, ensuring the rule of law, and advancing constitutional and legal rights.
At IDCLA, we are dedicated to utilizing the power of legal action to uphold justice, safeguard fundamental rights, and champion positive social change. PIL functions as an essential mechanism that empowers individuals, organizations, and communities to contest laws, policies, and actions that infringe upon public rights or compromise the principles of constitutional and human rights.
PIL provides the following services:
● Human Rights Violation
IDCLA explores how private international law (PIL) could handle human rights breaches by a multinational firm. IDCLA focuses on civil recourse, identifying competent courts and applicable law to serve multinational companies’ economic concerns and plaintiffs’ goals of holding companies accountable. The firm analyzes PIL regulations and practices from a technological and legal perspective. We emphasize ‘access to justice’. PIL rules on jurisdiction and applicable law are crucial to ‘opening’ proceedings, where human rights can be invoked and third-country victims’ interests as ‘weaker parties’ can be protected.
● Environmental Justice
Bangladesh’s legal system developed Public Interest Litigation (PIL), a groundbreaking concept that supports the social animal theory. Judicial activism in Bangladesh can enhance human rights and the rule of law despite its flaws. Judicial duty involves maintaining laws, protecting fundamental rights, and applying them fairly. The judiciary creates laws and provides guidance, but extremism is limited by government selection and local norms. IDCLA focuses on public expectations for stronger environmental involvement, including environmental protection. We work for public interest litigation in Bangladesh court rulings and access to justice.
● Access to Justice
Many consider Bangladesh’s court system gender-biased, anti-poor, and exclusionary. Access to justice is a key strategy for legal empowerment for women. Women in Bangladesh suffer legal, social, institutional, and economic impediments to justice, including inadequate legal framework, institutional barriers, lack of legal awareness, gender discrimination, and poverty. IDCL provides all legal solutions to overcome the aforesaid barriers women need. Therefore, comprehensive strategies and action plans to access justice are also provided by IDCLA.
IDCLA works for individuals and communities to pursue legal remedies, guaranteeing that regulations are enforced equitably and justly. In the pursuit of addressing unjust policies, advocating for necessary reforms, or upholding individual rights, IDCLA is committed to ensuring that the legal system serves the interests of the community.
