When can the defense lawyer meet?

Meeting time. In the investigation stage, the time for a criminal suspect to hire a lawyer is advanced from "after the first interrogation" in the current criminal procedure law to "from the first interrogation day", and the new criminal procedure law also cancels the restriction that a criminal suspect involved in a state secret case must obtain the approval of the investigation organ to hire a lawyer. Completely absorbed the provisions of the lawyer law. 2. Meeting procedures. The new Criminal Procedure Law has absorbed Article 33 of the Lawyers Law, stipulating that "when a lawyer meets, he can produce his lawyer's practice certificate, certificate of law firm, power of attorney or official letter of legal aid" (three certificates). 3. Meeting procedures. The provision that lawyers are not allowed to be monitored when meeting criminal suspects and defendants cancels the provision that the investigation organ can send personnel to be present at the investigation stage according to the situation in the current criminal procedure law. For general cases, the lawyer's meeting should be directly submitted to the detention center and must be arranged within 48 hours at the latest. To some extent, this provision solves the problem that lawyers must be arranged by the case-handling organ during the investigation stage, but the 48-hour grace period in the detention center may bring new problems in practice. Moreover, once "forty-eight hours" becomes the norm, it will directly affect the overall meeting effect in the three stages of investigation, review, prosecution and trial. 4. Scope of the meeting. Different from the Lawyers Law, the new Criminal Procedure Law cancels the restriction that lawyers should obtain the consent of the investigation organ when meeting cases involving state secrets, but increases the restriction that "defense lawyers should obtain the consent of the investigation organ when meeting detainees during investigation". Therefore, in fact, compared with the current Criminal Procedure Law and Lawyers Law, the scope for lawyers to meet with detainees during investigation has been expanded. That is, the lawyer's right to meet is obviously reduced compared with the current legal provisions. Lawyers will not be monitored when meeting with criminal suspects. The new criminal procedure law fully absorbs the provisions of Article 33 of the Lawyers Law, but it is obviously different from the Lawyers Law. To sum up, both the plaintiff and the defendant in criminal cases have the right to entrust a lawyer to defend themselves, and the defendant can generally meet on the day when compulsory measures are taken, so it is necessary to meet with the chief lawyer in time to protect their rights to the maximum extent in the first time.