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Our Mission and Purpose 

 

Why do we do this?

Justice Adda works  towards transforming the relationship  people have with the justice system. The justice system is  usually thought of as complex, distant,  overwhelming and intimidating. Our endeavour is to empower people  to  use the law  for their well-being. 

How do we do this?

Through the process of  co-production,  iteration  and applying principles of design justice, our interventions seek to identify and reduce  barriers people face to access justice,  and provide them with strategies to  resolve unmet legal needs. We believe that this can foster greater engagement and trust in the legal system, creating better individual and social outcomes. 

What do we do?

We strive to make information about laws and the justice system thought provoking, playful, and understandable. Our projects are open access and  multilingual - available in  multiple Indian languages, including Hindi, Urdu, Marathi, Malayalam, Bengali, and Kannada making our resources  accessible to especially those who may not engage with English content.


We aim to bridge knowledge gaps, engage people and communities with socio-legal issues and tools in a language and format that feels familiar and relatable. 
 

Meet the Team

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Siddharth Peter de Souza
Founder

Siddharth studied law at Humboldt University, Berlin, and the universities of Cambridge and Delhi. His interests lie at the intersection of access to justice, data justice and legal design.

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Siddhi Gupta
Design & Communications Lead

Siddhi is a designer, educator and researcher. Her practice intersects visual communication and creative education. She has studied communication design at NIFT, Delhi and RCA, London.

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Aparna Mehrotra
Law & Communications Lead

Aparna Mehrotra is an advocate practicing in courts and tribunals in India. Her practice and research interests include constitutional law and literacy, gender and sexuality law and transnational climate justice.

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Varsha Aithala
Operations Lead

arsha Aithala is a lawyer, teacher, and researcher based at the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. She specializes in social investment, law and technology, access to justice, and legal system reform.  

SiddharthProfilePicturepng_edited.jpg

Siddharth Peter de Souza
Founder

Siddharth studied law at Humboldt University, Berlin, and the universities of Cambridge and Delhi. His interests lie at the intersection of access to justice, data justice and legal design.

SiddharthProfilePicturepng_edited.jpg

Siddhi Gupta
Design & Communications Lead

Siddhi is a designer, educator and researcher. Her practice intersects visual communication and creative education. She has studied communication design at NIFT, Delhi and RCA, London.

SiddharthProfilePicturepng_edited.jpg

Aparna Mehrotra
Law & Communications Lead

Aparna Mehrotra is an advocate practicing in courts and tribunals in India. Her practice and research interests include constitutional law and literacy, gender and sexuality law and transnational climate justice.

SiddharthProfilePicturepng_edited.jpg

Varsha Aithala
Operations Lead

arsha Aithala is a lawyer, teacher, and researcher based at the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. She specializes in social investment, law and technology, access to justice, and legal system reform.  

SiddharthProfilePicturepng_edited.jpg

Siddharth Peter de Souza
Founder

Siddharth studied law at Humboldt University, Berlin, and the universities of Cambridge and Delhi. His interests lie at the intersection of access to justice, data justice and legal design.

SiddharthProfilePicturepng_edited.jpg

Siddhi Gupta
Design & Communications Lead

Siddhi is a designer, educator and researcher. Her practice intersects visual communication and creative education. She has studied communication design at NIFT, Delhi and RCA, London.

SiddharthProfilePicturepng_edited.jpg

Aparna Mehrotra
Law & Communications Lead

Aparna Mehrotra is an advocate practicing in courts and tribunals in India. Her practice and research interests include constitutional law and literacy, gender and sexuality law and transnational climate justice.

SiddharthProfilePicturepng_edited.jpg

Varsha Aithala
Operations Lead

arsha Aithala is a lawyer, teacher, and researcher based at the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. She specializes in social investment, law and technology, access to justice, and legal system reform.  

SiddharthProfilePicturepng_edited.jpg

Siddharth Peter de Souza
Founder

Siddharth studied law at Humboldt University, Berlin, and the universities of Cambridge and Delhi. His interests lie at the intersection of access to justice, data justice and legal design.

SiddharthProfilePicturepng_edited.jpg

Siddhi Gupta
Design & Communications Lead

Siddhi is a designer, educator and researcher. Her practice intersects visual communication and creative education. She has studied communication design at NIFT, Delhi and RCA, London.

SiddharthProfilePicturepng_edited.jpg

Aparna Mehrotra
Law & Communications Lead

Aparna Mehrotra is an advocate practicing in courts and tribunals in India. Her practice and research interests include constitutional law and literacy, gender and sexuality law and transnational climate justice.

SiddharthProfilePicturepng_edited.jpg

Varsha Aithala
Operations Lead

arsha Aithala is a lawyer, teacher, and researcher based at the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. She specializes in social investment, law and technology, access to justice, and legal system reform.  

Who do we work with? 

These projects have, through different strategies,  aimed to:

 

  • understand people’s experience of justice and the law  and foreground diverse voices  to inform policies, advocacy efforts, and new legal innovations that can bring about meaningful change.

 

  • research and analyse how the law  impacts people’s lives, particularly those on the margins, and explore interventions that promote justice, equity, and empowerment - with real-world data, case studies, and field insights.

 

  • break-down and explain complex research  in a comprehensible, practically relatable and actionable way .  

 

  • facilitate workshops and learning spaces to enable people and communities to access the justice system.

Our Annual Reports

Organization

 

Justice Adda, part of Jusadd Innovation Lab LLP is a social enterprise that helps human rights campaigners, development organisations, justice and other legal institutions to empower people to understand and use the law by providing content, design, and technology solutions. 

Justice Adda was incubated at the Cambridge Social Ventures programme in the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation at Cambridge Judge Business School.

Disclaimer 

The information available on justiceadda.com is for general informational purposes

only and does not constitute legal advice. JusAdd Innovation Lab LLP assumes no

responsibility if such information is construed as legal advice. All  information on  this

website is provided in good faith and we do not make any representation or warranty on

its accuracy, adequacy, validity, suitability, reliability or completeness on the website

for this purpose .
 

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