Application:
You can apply to the Legal Aid Center of the District Judicial Bureau. Under any of the following circumstances in criminal proceedings, citizens may apply for legal aid from legal aid institutions:
1. The criminal suspect fails to hire a lawyer due to financial difficulties after the first interrogation by the investigation organ or 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 review and prosecution;
3. After the people's court accepted the case of private prosecution, the private prosecutor and his legal representative failed to entrust an agent ad litem due to financial difficulties;
4. In the case where the public prosecutor appears in court for public prosecution, the defendant fails to entrust a defender due to financial difficulties or other reasons. If the people's court appoints a defense for the defendant, the legal aid institution shall provide legal aid.
Extended data
1, who applies for legal aid due to financial difficulties, shall apply in accordance with the following provisions:
(a) to request state compensation and apply to the legal aid institution where the organ liable for compensation is located;
(2) Where a request for social insurance, minimum living allowance, pension or relief fund is made, an application shall be made to the legal aid institution where the organ obligated to provide social insurance, minimum living allowance, pension or relief fund is located;
(3) Where alimony, alimony or alimony are requested, alimony and alimony shall be paid? The legal aid institution at the domicile of the maintenance obligor applies;
(four) to request payment of labor remuneration, it shall apply to the legal aid institution at the domicile of the person who pays labor remuneration;
(five) to claim the civil rights and interests arising from the courageous act, and to apply to the legal aid institution of the respondent's residence.
2. If an agent is not entrusted to apply for legal aid due to financial difficulties in criminal proceedings, an application shall be made to the legal aid institution where the people's court hearing the case is located.
The application of a criminal suspect in custody shall be transferred to a legal aid institution within 24 hours by the detention center, and the relevant documents and supporting materials required for applying for legal aid shall be notified by the detention center to the legal representative or close relatives of the applicant for assistance.
3. If the applicant is a person without or with limited capacity for civil conduct, his legal representative shall apply on his behalf.
In a civil lawsuit between a person with no capacity for civil conduct, a person with limited capacity for civil conduct and his legal representative, or in need of legal aid due to other interest disputes, other legal representatives who have no interest in the dispute shall file an application on his behalf.