There are many lawyer affairs under the Justice Bureau, which has a legal aid center. You can apply for legal aid at the legal aid center, which is completely free. However, legal aid has certain conditions, that is, the inability to bear the litigation costs is the main premise, and the rest are public interest litigation.
What are the preferential policies for disabled people to go to court?
Deaf people can ask for an interpreter, mental patients can have free lawyers and so on. All these are beneficial for disabled people to go to court. But some disabled people don't have preferential policies.
Generally, you have to apply for a disability certificate before you can get a disability certificate. The preferential policies for the disabled card are as follows:
I. Tax incentives
1. Labor services provided by individuals with disabilities are exempt from business tax.
2, the income of the disabled, by the taxpayer to apply, reported to the Municipal Local Taxation Bureau for approval, temporarily exempt from personal income tax.
3. For welfare factories and social welfare production units that are not handed over in the middle of the street offices organized by the civil affairs department, if the "four disabled" personnel account for more than the total number of production personnel, the income tax will be temporarily exempted. Where the placement of "four disabled" personnel accounts for more than 10% of the total number of production personnel, and does not reach 35%, the income tax will be levied by half.
4. Land use tax shall be temporarily exempted from the welfare factory land held by the civil affairs department for the disabled.
Second, fee waiver.
5. All disabled people are engaged in handicrafts, commerce, service industry and repair industry. The registration fee, individual association fee and management fee are halved. Large-scale (hiring helpers), management fees are charged according to the approved standards, and individual association fees are appropriately charged.
6. After verification, disabled people from families with special difficulties are engaged in business activities, and may be exempted from registration fees, membership fees and management fees after approval by our bureau.
7. Disabled employees of wholly-owned enterprises and joint ventures are treated as welfare enterprises, and management fees are charged according to the approved standards.
8. If a disabled person leads a wholly-owned enterprise or a joint venture, the registration fee will be halved.
9. Persons with disabilities who engage in small-scale business such as books, electronic games, karaoke, billiards, videos and DVD rentals are exempt from management fees. Large scale (hired helpers), with more than 30% (including 30%) disabled employees, the management fee will be charged at 50% of the approved standard.
Third, disabled people apply for legal help or legal aid.
10. If the disabled encounter infringement or civil disputes, they need to bring a lawsuit to the people's court. If legal aid or legal help is really needed, you can apply for legal aid directly to the local legal aid center, or you can apply for legal aid to the designated legal service institution for the disabled, or entrust a law firm or legal service institution to handle related matters.
1 1. If a party refuses to accept the judgment of the court of first instance and needs to file an appeal, he may also apply to the legal aid institution at the same level of the court of second instance and the institution for protecting the legitimate rights and interests of the disabled for assistance. The specific procedure is the same.
Criminal Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China
Article 9 Citizens of all ethnic groups have the right to use their own spoken and written languages in litigation. The people's courts, people's procuratorates and public security organs shall translate for the participants in the proceedings who are not familiar with the local spoken and written languages. In areas where ethnic minorities live in compact communities or where many ethnic groups live together, trials shall be conducted in the local common language, and judgments, notices and other documents shall be issued in the local common language.
Article 35 If a criminal suspect or defendant fails to appoint a defender due to financial difficulties or other reasons, he or his near relatives may apply to a legal aid institution. To meet the conditions of legal aid, legal aid institutions shall appoint lawyers to defend them. If the criminal suspect or defendant is a mental patient who is blind, deaf, dumb or has not completely lost the ability to identify or control his own behavior, and has not entrusted a defender, the people's court, the people's procuratorate and the public security organ shall notify the legal aid institution to appoint a lawyer to defend him. If a criminal suspect or defendant may be sentenced to life imprisonment or death without entrusting a defender, the people's court, the people's procuratorate and the public security organ shall notify the legal aid institution to appoint a lawyer to defend him.
Does legal aid for the disabled cost money?
No, legal aid for the disabled is free, and it is also free for anyone who requests legal aid. Citizens who meet the conditions of these regulations may obtain legal services such as legal consultation, agency and criminal defense free of charge in accordance with these regulations. Legal aid is free. If a criminal suspect or defendant fails to entrust a defender due to financial difficulties or other reasons, he or his close relatives may apply to a legal aid institution. To meet the conditions of legal aid, legal aid institutions shall appoint lawyers to defend them. Legal basis: Article 2 of the Regulations on Legal Aid Citizens who meet the requirements of these regulations can obtain legal services such as legal consultation, agency and criminal defense free of charge in accordance with these regulations.
Legal basis:
Legal aid regulations
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.
Free lawyer for the disabled
According to the current law, disabled people do not have free lawyers, but if the parties meet the conditions for legal aid, they can apply for legal aid according to law.