Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust

blast is one of the largest legal services organizations in bangladesh, operating in over nineteen districts. blast has certain unique features as a legal services organization. first, it assists both women and men. second, it undertakes extensive criminal defense work and has a considerable specialization in labour law, in addition to expertise on family and land law. blast is the only ngo able to provide access to legal aid across the spectrum from the frontlines of the formal justice system to the apex court. blast is governed by a board of trustees comprised of eminent jurists, lawyers, and human rights advocates. besides its own core staff lawyers at headquarters and at each district unit, blast has an enlisted panel of about 2300 lawyers across the country who provide legal redress to clients on a pro bono basis, with a nominal honorarium. it is also well represented by lawyers pursuing its cases in the high court division and appellate division of the supreme court of banglades