Section 12 — Access to justice.

12. Access to justice.—(1) The appropriate Government shall ensure that persons with disabilities are 

able to exercise the right to access any court, tribunal, authority, commission or any other body having 

judicial or quasi-judicial or investigative powers without discrimination on the basis of disability.  

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(2) The appropriate Government shall take steps to put in place suitable support measures for persons 

with disabilities specially those living outside family and those disabled requiring high support for 

exercising legal rights. 

(3) The National Legal Services Authority and the State Legal Services Authorities constituted under 

the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987 (39 of 1987) shall make provisions including reasonable 

accommodation to ensure that persons with disabilities have access to any scheme, programme, facility or 

service offered by them equally with others. 

(4) The appropriate Government shall take steps to— 

(a) ensure that all their public documents are in accessible formats; 

(b) ensure that the filing departments, registry or any other office of records are supplied with 

necessary equipment to enable filing, storing and referring to the documents and evidence in 

accessible formats; and 

(c) make available all necessary facilities and equipment to facilitate recording of testimonies, 

arguments or opinion given by persons with disabilities in their preferred language and means of 

communication.