Legal aid refers to a legal guarantee system that legal aid agencies established by the government or law firms established by the people organize lawyers to provide legal services for people with financial difficulties or special cases, especially in rural areas.
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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 35 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.
Legal aid in China has the following characteristics:
1. Legal aid is the responsibility of the state and the behavior of the government, which is organized and implemented by the legal aid agency established by the government. It embodies the obligations of the state and the government to citizens.
2. Legal aid is a legal and institutionalized behavior and an important part of the national social security system.
3 recipients are persons with financial difficulties, the disabled, the weak or special objects designated by the people's court.
4. The legal aid institution shall reduce or exempt the legal service fee for the recipient, and the court shall reduce or exempt the case acceptance fee and other litigation fees for the recipient.
5. The forms of legal aid include both litigation legal services and non-litigation legal services. Mainly take the following forms: criminal defense and criminal agency; Agents in civil and administrative litigation; Non-litigation legal affairs agency; Notarial certificate.
Main form
(1) criminal defense and criminal agency
(2) Civil and administrative litigation agency
(3) Non-litigation legal affairs agency
(4) Notarization certificate
(5) Legal consultation and drafting of legal documents.
(6) Other forms of legal services.