Hefei Legal Aid Center was established in199665438+February, which is the first legal aid institution established in Anhui Province. It belongs to Hefei Municipal Bureau of Justice and is a fully funded institution. Its duty is to organize, coordinate and supervise the city's legal aid work; Accepting, examining and handling legal aid cases; Provide legal advice to the society. Hefei Legal Aid Center has 10 staff, including 4 full-time lawyers, 5 paralegals and/kloc-0 background staff, all of whom graduated from law school. The current director of Hefei Legal Aid Center is lawyer Tamia Liu.
The business scope of Hefei Legal Aid Center is: criminal legal aid, including cases of blind, deaf, dumb and other disabled people or minors, or cases where the defendant who may be sentenced to death has not entrusted a defender; Civil legal aid, including requesting state compensation according to law; Requiring to enjoy social insurance benefits or minimum living security benefits; Requesting the payment of pensions and relief funds; Requesting to pay alimony, alimony and alimony; Asking for payment of labor remuneration; Advocating civil rights and interests arising from courageous acts; And other matters that really need to provide legal aid; Free substitute books and free legal advice.
Since its establishment, Hefei Legal Aid Center has always given priority to safeguarding the rights of vulnerable groups such as the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, actively explored various measures to facilitate people's consultation and application for legal aid, and tried its best to meet the legal aid needs of people in need. In May, 2004, Hefei Legal Aid Center established the scope of accepting aid cases for Hefei Legal Aid Center according to the Regulations on Legal Aid and the Regulations on Legal Aid in Anhui Province. The scope of accepting aid cases is highly operable. On the one hand, it is convenient for the receptionist to quickly and efficiently examine the application for legal aid of the parties according to law. On the other hand, according to the actual situation of our city, the scope of legal aid has been appropriately expanded to allow more poor people to benefit from legal aid. In order to further expand the coverage of legal aid, Hefei Legal Aid Center has also set up legal aid workstations (offices) in Hefei Poverty Alleviation Center, Hefei Disabled Persons' Federation and Yicheng Prison, and arranged lawyers to be on duty regularly to facilitate specific vulnerable groups to consult and apply for legal aid. In June, 2004, Hefei Legal Aid Center also cooperated with International Judicial Bridge (Foundation) to strengthen the exchange of international legal aid, and established the first municipal criminal demonstration legal aid center in our city.
Since its establishment, Hefei Legal Aid Center has handled more than 500 criminal, civil, economic, administrative and non-litigation legal aid cases 1500, including more than 800 criminal defense cases designated by people's courts, nearly 700 civil legal aid cases, more than 28,000 telephone calls and 65,438 free legal documents. Up to now, Hefei Legal Aid Center has not received a phone call or complaint letter from a recipient, nor has it found anyone or anything that violates the law and discipline. With the support and encouragement of the broad masses and the care and supervision of all walks of life, Hefei Legal Aid Center has made progress and honor one after another: 1998 won the title of "advanced collective of judicial administrative system in the city"; 1999 annual assessment was rated as "advanced collective"; 200 1 1 won the title of the first "advanced legal aid collective in the province"; In March of 20001,it was awarded the title of "National Advanced Collective of Legal Aid" by the Ministry of Justice; 200 1, 1 1, the municipal disabled persons' Federation awarded the title of "the city's advanced collective for helping the disabled"; In April 2002, it won the title of "Hefei Youth Civilization"; In 2004, it was awarded the title of "Hefei Youth Civilization"; In April 2005, he was awarded the honorary title of "Hefei 2002-2004 Advanced Collective"; In 2006 1 month, it was recorded as "collective second-class merit of judicial administrative system in Anhui Province" by Anhui Provincial Department of Justice; In April, 2006, it was awarded the title of "Advanced Collective for Protecting the Rights of Disabled Persons in Anhui Province" jointly by the Justice Department of Anhui Province and the Anhui Disabled Persons' Federation.
The aim of Hefei Legal Aid Center is to provide efficient, clean and high-quality legal services to every recipient with first-class legal aid team, and to create the most beautiful and civilized legal service window of Hefei judicial administrative system.