ABSTRACT
In 1996 public interest litigation has been revitalised in Bangladesh in a dramatic way. This chapter describes the development, which has sown the seeds for a significant growth in social action lawyering in Bangladesh in the future. Heavily dependent upon foreign aid for its survival, it remains one of the very poorest countries economic and political problems. The group was a classic pressure group of social action lawyers, backed by a multi-disciplinary team of experts on environmental and demographic issues. The Constitution contemplates a society based on securing all possible benefits to its people, namely, democratic, social, political, and equality of justice in accordance with law. The individualistic doctrine of locus standi had hitherto been the main impediment to using courts to obtain social justice for massed poor. Public Interest Litigation brings justice to the doorstep of the weak, the unorganised and exploited sections of society who have no access to the Courts because of the prohibitive cost of litigation.
