Indian Lawyers’ Forum conducts legal seminar
Alegal seminar of Indian Lawyers’ Forum was convened at the residence of Adv Thomas Panicker, the President of the Forum. He welcomed everybody and thanked all for attending the meeting. The President highlighted the activities of ‘Indian Lawyers’ Forum’. He enumerated all the free legal aids the FORUM has rendered in the recent past.
He said the FORUM is very successful in providing a platform for the Indian Lawyers in Kuwait to meet and interact with and help each other. He observed that the FORUM enjoys the membership of Indian lawyers who has 15 to 20 years Court Practice in India and who are working for high profile legal firms/Corporations and holding key legal positions in various companies in Kuwait. Forum is well equipped to deal with any sort of legal and business consultations pertaining to Kuwait as well as India. Already around 50 to 100 Indian Community members approach our members for redressal of their legal problems they face in India and Kuwait. Forum decided to enhance these activities.
He said that Forum has been successfully participating and conducting legal seminars for different associations in Kuwait. He also said that Forum is ready to cooperate with any association in Kuwait which intends to conduct Legal Seminar for its Members/Public. The FORUM will write to inform all associations in Kuwait of our intentions/offer to Conduct legal seminar for them in the meetings which that associations convene.
Forum decided to approach medias for their help to publicize the news about FORUM, so that the public get a chance to know about the FORUM and approach the forum members for redressal of their legal issues. Adv Rema opined that Legal seminar to public to be considered and that will be a real service to society.
Adv Shivadas opined that the FORUM should initiate some charity programs for the benefit of public. He said individually we can collect the used Dress from the public and distribute to needy people. Mohammed Basheer suggested appointing one Additional Secretary to coordinate the Forum activities in a better way. And based on that Adv Jamshad is elected as Additional Secretary.
Adv Rajan suggested that a new Members’ ILF Directory to be published soon. He stressed the importance of Law/Legal Education among members and stressed the importance of legal awareness within the Lawyers. Forum decided to continue with the in-house legal seminars for updating legal information among lawyers.
Next meeting will be on 31st August 2018, at the residence of Suresh Pulikkal. Adv Mini Shivadas will present a legal subject for discussion.
The meeting came to an end after a sumptuous dinner and vote of thanks by President, the host of the meeting.