Mangaluru: The legal awareness programme was held at St Lawrence Church, Bondel

By Meena Serrao Barboza
Bellevision Media Network

Mangaluru, 23 Sep 2023: A Legal Awareness programme was held for the parishioners of St Lawrence Church Bondel on 17th September at 8.00 a.m. at Church Pendol.

 

Rev. Fr Andrew Leo D’Souza introduced the resource person with a warm welcome.

 

Resource person Fr Joachim D’Souza OFM Cap. Fr Joachim, who presided over the programme, addressed the parishioners and expressed the need of the hour to know our basic rights and to know the procedure to get ourselves protected from unnecessary problems through legal complications.

 

 

Further, he gave more knowledge about the rules for construction of wills, The Types of wills: 1. Privileged Will 2. Unprivileged Will 3. Conditional Will 4. Concurrent Will 5. Mutual Will. Uniform Civil Code (UCC) civil Law, Criminal Law & Personal law, Uniform Civil Code : problems and prospects.

 

Legal Literacy is an effective tool to protect human rights. It helps us to recognize our civil, political, social and cultural rights. Parishioners took part in this programme in large numbers.

 

An interactive session was also conducted during the course of the programme.