The guarantee mechanism of laws and regulations provides free legal aid for people with financial difficulties or special circumstances. A special case refers to a case in which the criminal suspect or defendant is blind, deaf, dumb or mentally ill who has not completely lost the ability to identify or manage his own civil conduct and has no right to entrust a defense lawyer 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). The court, the procuratorate and the public security department shall notify the legal aid center to organize and appoint a criminal defense lawyer to defend him.
If a criminal suspect or a criminal suspect may be sentenced to death or life imprisonment and has no right to entrust a defense lawyer, the court, the procuratorate and the public security department shall notify the legal aid center to organize the assignment of a criminal defense lawyer to defend him. Legal aid refers to the legal aid center set up by government departments to organize criminal defense lawyers to provide free legal aid to the parties in financial difficulties or special cases, which is a legal and regulatory guarantee mechanism. This article focuses on how to seek legal aid in detail.
Specific types of legal aid centers, criminal defense lawyers and criminal case agents, civil litigation, administrative litigation legal agents, non-litigation legal agents, notarization and confirmation by notary offices, legal consulting services, drafting judgment documents on behalf of them, and other types of legal aid. Qualifications for applying for a legal aid center 1. China citizens who have not entrusted an agent to represent the following matters due to financial difficulties may seek legal aid from the legal aid center.