HISTORY CREATED
The Bar Association of India is happy to inform that its President Mr Prashant Kumar, Former President, LAWASIA has been elected unanimously to the Board of Directors of International Legal Assistance Consortium (ILAC) on 02.09.2021.
He is the second Asian to serve on the Board of ILAC. ILAC is a Sweden based international non-governmental organisation that works to strengthen rule of law, empower legal professionals, and ensure equal access to justice for all where people’s justice needs are the greatest – in conflict, crisis, or transitions to democracy.
PROFILE OF NEW PRESIDENT-ELECT
A policy economist turned lawyer, Prashant Kumar specializes in constitutional, commercial and civil matters, arbitration, intellectual property and information technology law, apart from Infrastructure, power, public-private partnership and anti-dumping. He has been involved in various important constitutional matters relating to pricing of natural resources, dissolution of Legislative Assembly, disqualification of members of Assembly, powers of Speaker of the House, powers of Governor, election matters, disproportionate assets and matters under Prevention of Corruption Act at various High Courts and Supreme Court, counting former Prime Minister of India, Chief Minister of State, various Ministers, members of Parliament and State Assemblies as clients. He heads a boutique law firm, KPA Legal, based in New Delhi.
ABOUT ILAC
ILAC is an international non-governmental organisation. We work to strengthen the rule of law, empower legal professionals and to ensure equal access to justice for all where people’s justice needs are the greatest – in conflict, crisis or transitions to democracy.
The mission of ILAC is to rapidly respond and assess the needs of the justice sector in conflict-affected and fragile countries, and help strengthen the independence and resilience of justice sector institutions and the legal profession. ILAC came about from a recognition that the re-establishment of the rule of law in war-torn countries by legal assistance organisations needed to be more effectively managed and coordinated.
It was established during a conference in December 2000 in Saltsjöbaden, Sweden, supported by the Swedish Govt. and attended by 40 organisations from around the world. ILAC now has more than 80 member organisations and individual experts representing more than 3 million lawyers worldwide.
ILAC has played a crucial role to help establish and sustain the Rule of Law in fragile countries, by supporting the development of independent judiciaries and legal profession and bar associations, with key ongoing initiatives in Syria, Tunisia, MENA region, Haiti, Cuba. In the past, it had worked in countries like Libya, Guatemala and had helped establish an independent Bar in Afghanistan, which still survives and will be crucial to provide hope for the people there.
