Perfect legal framework is needed to promote trade: Law Minister

Panaji, Sep 29 (UNI) Union Minister of State for Law and Justice K Venkatapathy today pleaded for placing a perfect legal framework for promoting trade, technology, communications and energy sectors that shape the societies and facilitate economic growth world over.

Inaugurating the four-day 40th LAWASIA anniversary international conference at Canacona in South Goa this evening, Mr Venkatapathy urged the participants to provide the Centre and the legislature with ''feedback on existing laws and the demand for amendments with new policy initiatives for consideration of the government.'' The prestigious conference has been jointly organized by the Bar Association of India, Society of Indian Law Firms and the LAWASIA.

About 600 delegates, including 200 from abroad, are participating in it.

''As lawyers, we have a duty to ensure the law serves us well and contributes to our collective social and economic development. The existing challenges ahead of the legal profession lie not merely in coping with rapid changes brought about by globalisation and developments in information technology, but in being able to retain its ideals of service with a concern for the public good,'' he said.

''We are not unequal to the daunting challenge before the legal fragternity,'' he added.

The legislature, through proper and consultative mechanism, responded to the need to resolve issues emerging out of globalisation and enacted reform measures.

''Well expressed, comprehensible legislation is a perfect alternative to prolonged and expensive litigious processes resolving on a case by case basis by applying obscure and prolix provisions,'' the Minister observed.

Speaking on the occasion, chief minister Pratapsinh Rane urged LAWASIA to mitigate the menace of terrorism through necessary legal climate against the perpetrators, while helping the nations update the legal systems in the era of global economy.

Prominent among those present included Lawasia president Jung Goon Lee, conference chairman Lalit Bhasin, State Law Minister Dayanand Narvekar and Goa's Advocate Ageneral Subodh Kantak.

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