EVER since the Indian judiciary was formally established in 1949 as one of the four pillars of Indian democracy, it has, inevitably, faced daunting challenges. These are mostly to do with the evolving nature of Indian society and the complexities of law, the introduction of Public those who cannot afford it.
In all this, the key question remains what the founding fathers of this great nation envisaged in the Constitution—access to justice for the poor and the deprived.
It is in that context that the ENC Group involved itself seriously in independent judicial review and a search for solutions to the many vexing problems facing the Indian judiciary. The Group launched India Legal, a politico-legal magazine which focused on issues of law, prominent cases in court and invited prominent legal minds to contribute. The Group also started the India Legal Research Foundation (ILRF), a non-profit organisation which provides free legal services. The television arm, APN, carries regular features on issues of law and invites legal luminaries to the studio to discuss and debate issues of contemporary interest.
As a natural extension of such efforts, in 2016, the Group came up with the idea of a Legal Leadership Conclave, intended as a series of discussions across the country where the best legal minds of India would gather in a convivial atmos phere to ideate, debate and ruminate on pressing judicial issues.
