Consultation telephone number of legal aid center

12348 is the abbreviation of legal service telephone. The hotline of the legal aid center is 12348, which is a national unified service number. Legal aid refers to lawyers who are organized by legal aid institutions established by the government to provide legal aid for economic difficulties or special cases (special cases refer to those in which the criminal suspect or defendant is blind, deaf or dumb, or a mental patient who has not completely lost the ability to identify or control his own behavior, according to the provisions of the second and third paragraphs of Article 34 of the Criminal Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), and the people's court, the people's procuratorate and the public security organ shall notify the legal aid institutions to appoint lawyers for him. ) provide legal services free of charge.

Legal basis: Legal Aid Ordinance

Article 10 For the following matters that need to be represented due to economic difficulties, citizens who have not entrusted an agent may apply to legal aid institutions for legal aid:

(1) Requesting state compensation according to law;

(2) Requesting social insurance benefits or minimum living security benefits;

(3) Requesting pensions and relief funds;

(4) Requesting to pay alimony, alimony and alimony;

(5) Requesting payment of labor remuneration;

(six) to claim the civil rights and interests arising from the courageous behavior. The people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government may make supplementary provisions on legal aid matters other than those stipulated in the preceding paragraph. Citizens may apply to legal aid institutions for legal advice on matters specified in the first and second paragraphs of this article.

Eleventh in criminal proceedings, under any of the following circumstances, citizens can apply for legal aid from legal aid institutions:

(1) The criminal suspect fails to hire a lawyer due to financial difficulties after being interrogated for the first time by the investigation organ or from the date when compulsory measures are taken;

(2) The victim of a public prosecution case and his legal representative or close relatives have not entrusted an agent ad litem due to financial difficulties since the date when the case was transferred for examination and prosecution;

(three) since the case of private prosecution was accepted by the people's court, the private prosecutor and his legal representative have not entrusted an agent ad litem due to financial difficulties.