"12348" is the national unified legal aid consultation hotline. The legal aid hotline is a public legal service that local judicial administrative departments provide free legal advice and public legal education for the masses to meet citizens' legal needs. At present, Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Henan, Hubei, Guangxi, Hainan,
Other provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) have also opened the "12348" legal aid hotline. As long as the "12348" legal aid hotline is opened, people can call this number.
"12348", free legal consultation service for telephone consultation. Due to the great language differences in different places, the personnel on duty on the "12348" special line may not be able to clearly understand the case because of the language barrier. At the same time, local laws and regulations of other places may not apply to cases in some places. Therefore, in order to facilitate communication and apply for legal aid cases nearby, it is recommended that consultants call "this city and this province".
Legal aid refers to a legal guarantee system that legal aid agencies set up by the government organize legal aid lawyers to provide free legal services for people with financial difficulties or special cases. A special case refers to a case in which the criminal suspect or defendant is a mental patient who is blind, deaf, dumb or has not completely lost the ability to identify or control his own behavior, and has not entrusted a defender in accordance with the provisions of the second and third paragraphs of Article 34 of the Criminal Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC). People's courts, people's procuratorates and public security organs shall notify legal aid institutions to appoint lawyers to defend them. If a criminal suspect or defendant may be sentenced to life imprisonment or death without entrusting a defender, the people's court, the people's procuratorate and the public security organ shall notify the legal aid institution to appoint a lawyer to defend him.
References:
China Legal Aid Network-12348 Legal Aid Consultation Line