Looking for legal help and advice? Access Moneylife Foundation’s Legal Resource Centre
Moneylife Digital Team 21 February 2014
For those seeking legal help, Moneylife Foundation’s new initiative—Legal Resource Centre, will provide support to individuals seeking legal guidance. Here’s how the LRC works
 
After receiving several requests for legal guidance, Moneylife Foundation has setup Legal Resource Centre to help those individuals who are lost when it comes to dealing with the complex Indian legal redressal system and are seeking legal help. The LRC will guide them to the right forum and suggest on how to get the best results. We will not draft applications for them or appear for them in any legal forum.
If you are seeking legal guidance, here is a guide to the MLF-LRC:
 
What is LRC?
The LRC’s (Legal Resource Centre’s) main objective will be to provide information, advice and preliminary guidance to a person needing legal help or planning legal action
 
What will the LRC cover?
The LRC will focus on 10 main areas-
  1. Guidance for filing complaints with financial regulators & stock exchanges 
  2. Guidance for filing consumer complaints
  3. Guidance on IT Act and issues that affect life and liberty.
  4. Guidance on filing Public Interest Litigation
  5. Guidance to Whistleblowers
  6. Guidance on filing complaints & consequences in Sexual Harassment cases
  7. Guidance Wills, transmission of assets etc. 
  8. Guidance on filing RTI effectively and handling the appeals process
  9. Property, conveyance, cooperative society related issues, registration, stamp duty etc. 
  10.  Basic legal research of different kinds especially pertaining to new legislation where there is no case laws in India such as Class Action Suits under the new Companies Act
To know more, kindly visit- http://lrc.moneylife.in/home/seek-help/ 
 
 
 
How will the LRC work?
First and foremost, MLF-LRC will not act as lawyers, but as experienced guides and provide skilled support on how you can sort out a legal issue.
 
The LRC will offer its services free of cost to those who seek legal help. However, the LRC may put in place guidelines to prevent members appropriating an unreasonable time and resources, especially if it is at the cost of others.
  1. This FREE helpline is only for members of Moneylife Foundation on personal issues. 
  2. As a member of Moneylife Foundation anywhere in India or abroad, one can access the LRC by sending us a 300-400 word synopsis of the issue/specific concern by email to [email protected]. First priority of the LRC will be to provide initial help through email only. You could also access the website -  lrc.moneylife.in to log in your complaint under ‘Access LRC
  3. Please do not send scanned documents or attachments unless asked for specifically. When asked, please send only the relevant documents or pages that are specifically requested.
  4. If you are based in Mumbai or in a city where LRC has a presence, you can seek an appointment after prior registration and an email synopsis of the issue. Moneylife Foundation will endeavour to fix an appointment with a domain expert on the basis of their schedule and availability. LRC will always strive to maximise the benefits to the largest number of people by giving appointments to people with similar issues at the same time slots. We will not guarantee confidential hearings unless deemed necessary. You cannot demand an appointment with a specific domain expert. 
The FREE help is not available to any company, firm, business, association or organisation, whether for-profit or not-for-profit.
 
For more details about the ‘Terms and conditions’ of the LRC kindly go to: http://lrc.moneylife.in/feature/terms-of-usage/
 
Legal Resources
The LRC has an entire section on law books which were donated by Shirish Shanbhag, retired professor with over 32 years of experience, and Dr SD Israni, who has over 37 years of experience in Corporate, Commercial and Securities Laws.
 
To view our entire list of advisory committee of experts- http://lrc.moneylife.in/feature/expert-panel/ 
 
The LRC has a compilation of pathbreaking RTI judgements meticulously curated by Shailesh Gandhi, former Central Information Commissioner. These are useful references in RTI appeals. An extensive Legal Referencer has been prepared by Sandeep Jalan. The LRC website provides a compilation of links to various website like that of Diehard Indian, a website by Activist Gaurang Damani which has links to all our everyday needs – how to get a birth certificate, death certificate, passports, how to file a consumer complaints and so on.
 
All this can be accessed on the LRC website under LRC Resources: http://lrc.moneylife.in/feature/lrc-resources/ 
 
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Comments
jps.tel
3 years ago
Highly useful information. In this world where cheating, fraud, dishonestly grabbing someone's money, there is an Organisation for the rescue of such aggrieved people. Great. hats Off to this noble Organisation.
sonia
1 decade ago
Very good initiative, Moneylife!
uttamkumar dubey
1 decade ago
Hope any govt establishes Moneylife as the torchbearer organisation for all financial matters related to public.

Can BJP/CON/AAP commit such an initiative for the ppl of the nation or they want ruined state of affairs of the nation and the public.

thanks,
uttam
Ramakanth Inani
1 decade ago
MONEY LIFE deserves accoloades for starting LRC ( Legal resource centre). In fact all leading dailies/ electronic media ( especially in financial sector) should also start columns , in their paper/ channel. Similarly Ministry of Legal affairs & bar councils also take similar initiatives.
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