Weekdays and working hours: Attorneys usually conduct interviews on weekdays and during working hours. This is because prisons and jails usually operate during daytime working hours. These hours are usually Monday through Friday, mornings and afternoons.
Appointment system: Lawyers are usually required to make an appointment to meet with a lawyer in advance to ensure that the prison or jail has sufficient time and resources to schedule the meeting. Appointments usually need to be made days or weeks in advance.
Emergencies: In some cases, lawyers may be able to meet out of hours if there is an emergency or a need for an impromptu meeting. This usually requires special permission and arrangements.
Holidays and vacations: During legal holidays and vacations, jail and prison rules may vary. Some places may restrict interviews or provide limited services.
Duration of interviews: The duration of interviews with lawyers is usually limited. Interview times may vary depending on the prison/custodial center's policies and laws and regulations, and usually range from 30 minutes to an hour.
The characteristics of a lawyer's meeting are:
1. A lawyer's meeting here refers specifically to the exercise of a lawyer's right to meet with a lawyer in the course of criminal proceedings. The lawyer's right to meet with the lawyer is an extremely important right in the criminal procedure activities. If the lawyer in the process of civil litigation, or in other non-litigation legal affairs in the meeting with the client, generally do not call "lawyers meet" and "meet with the client".
2, the law establishes the lawyer meets with the system is to protect the criminal suspect, the accused in the criminal procedure process to realize their procedural rights.
3, the lawyer's right to meet with the source of two aspects, one is based on the authorization arising from the entrustment relationship, and the second is based on the lawyer's status in the process of criminal proceedings and enjoy the right. The former is based on the client's right to authorization as a prerequisite, the purpose is to make up for the criminal suspect, the defendant's own ability to defend the inadequacy of their advice, on behalf of the application for bail, on behalf of the complaint and accusation. The latter is based on the status and role of lawyers in criminal proceedings and the rights granted by law.
In summary: lawyers generally meet with a client's time in the law there is no special restrictions, criminal defense lawyers and entrusted clients to meet with the client there is no limit to the number of times and time, can be submitted by the client to the detention center to meet with the application, and to arrange for the meeting time.
Legal basis:
The Chinese People's **** and the State Criminal Procedure Law
Article 35
Criminal suspects, defendants due to financial difficulties or other reasons have not entrusted a defender, he or she and his or her close family members may apply to the legal aid institution. Where the conditions for legal aid are met, the legal aid agency shall assign a lawyer to provide a defense for him.
If the suspect or defendant is blind, deaf or mute, or is a mental patient who has not yet completely lost the ability to recognize or control his or her own behavior, and has not appointed a defender, the people's court, the people's procuratorate and the public security organs shall notify the legal aid institution to assign a lawyer to provide for his or her defense.
Where a criminal suspect or defendant may be sentenced to life imprisonment or the death penalty and has not appointed a defender, the people's court, people's procuratorate and public security organ shall notify the legal aid institution to assign a lawyer to provide a defense for him or her.
Article 39
Defense lawyers may meet and correspond with criminal suspects and defendants in custody. Other defenders may, with the permission of the people's court or the people's procuratorate, also meet and correspond with the criminal suspect or defendant in custody.
Where a defense attorney holds a lawyer's practice certificate, a certificate from a law firm and a power of attorney or an official letter of legal aid requesting a meeting with a criminal suspect or defendant in custody, the detention center shall promptly arrange for the meeting, which shall last no more than forty-eight hours at the latest.
Crimes against national security, terrorist activities, during the investigation of defense lawyers to meet with criminal suspects in custody, shall be permitted by the investigating authorities. In the above cases, the investigating authority shall notify the detention center in advance.
Defense lawyers may meet with the suspect or defendant in custody to learn about the case and provide legal advice; they may also verify the evidence with the suspect or defendant from the date of transfer of the case for examination and prosecution. Defense lawyers are not subject to wiretapping when meeting with criminal suspects or defendants.
Defense lawyers meeting and communicating with criminal suspects and defendants under residential surveillance shall be subject to the provisions of paragraphs 1, 3 and 4.