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Legal Research in India
3 months - Bangalore
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After graduating with a law degree from Oxford and gaining experience providing free legal advice to tenants CWW volunteer Lucy Chisholm wanted to gain more practical experience and use her skills and legal knowledge to help in a development context.
Chisholm worked in Bangalore, India. The organisation’s she worked with defend the rights of workers, especially those in unregulated sectors. They lobby for better trade and labour policies,intervening in specific human rights cases and running programmes for women workers in Bangalore's ready made garment industry.
Lucy’s legal background was particularly valuable in the work they undertake to research compliance of labour laws in factories, the legal counselling they offer women workers. Her transferable skills were put to excellent use networking between NGO’s, consumer organisations and trade unions in the industry.
Lucy’s key objective was to produce a piece of research that would help the organisation develop their legal policy and enable them to make legal interventions more effective for the garment workers.
During her 3 month project Lucy produced two reports. The first focused on the execution and handling of past Labour Cases by the NGO and the second on domestic legal cases. These reports offered an honest appraisal of their handing of these cases and will act as a learning tool for other organisations engaging in this field.
Lucy also created a legal database of past cases which will enable the organisation to keep comprehensive records of their previous workload and track current cases. This will help them further streamline their operations and increase efficiency.
Her hosts said, “The high standard of Lucy's work means it will be of considerable use to us now and for many years to come. Her energy and competence, was contagious, benefiting us all!”
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If you are interested in doing a Placement similar to this one, contact us quoting Case Study Reference: India Legal work (Cividep)
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