Are public lawyers free?

Legal aid lawyers don't charge their clients. Citizens who request state compensation, social insurance benefits or minimum living security benefits, pensions and relief funds. If a lawsuit is filed according to law and an agent is not entrusted due to financial difficulties, he may apply to a legal aid institution for legal aid. Legal aid lawyer is a lawyer's position, and its biggest feature is free. No matter whether it is an aid lawyer in a broad sense or an aid lawyer in a narrow sense, as long as they are engaged in legal aid services, they cannot charge lawyer fees. The specific meaning of editing and broadcasting broad legal aid lawyers can be divided into broad legal aid lawyers and narrow legal aid lawyers. In a broad sense, aid lawyers include social lawyers appointed by legal aid agencies to provide legal aid services for a case, which is called case aid lawyers. It also includes full-time legal aid lawyers who specialize in legal aid services. Legal aid lawyers in a narrow sense, also known as public lawyers and full-time aid lawyers, refer to people who are employed by legal aid institutions or other government departments, pass the national legal professional qualification examination, obtain legal professional qualification certificates and lawyer's practice qualification certificates, and specialize in legal aid work. The establishment of such personnel belongs to the state administration or institutions and enjoys the treatment of the staff of the state administration and institutions. After accepting the assignment from a legal aid agency, a social lawyer may not charge a lawyer's fee for the assigned aid case. Full-time legal aid workers cannot provide any paid legal services to the society. Legal Responsibility Compilation and Broadcasting Article 26 of the Regulations on Legal Aid in the State Council If a legal aid institution and its staff are under any of the following circumstances, the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be punished according to law:

(a) to provide legal aid to those who do not meet the conditions of legal aid, or to refuse to provide legal aid to those who meet the conditions of legal aid;

(two) handling legal aid cases to collect property;

(three) engaged in paid legal services;

(four) embezzlement and misappropriation of legal aid funds. The property collected in handling legal aid cases shall be ordered to be returned by the judicial administrative department; The illegal income from engaging in paid legal services shall be confiscated by the judicial administrative department; Those who embezzle, privately divide or misappropriate legal aid funds shall be ordered to recover by the judicial administrative department. If the circumstances are serious enough to constitute a crime, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law. Twenty-eighth lawyers in any of the following circumstances, given a warning by the judicial administrative department, ordered to make corrections; If the circumstances are serious, a penalty of stopping practicing 1 month or more and 3 months or less shall be imposed:

(1) Refusing to accept or terminate a legal aid case without justifiable reasons;

(two) handling legal aid cases to collect property. With the previous paragraph

(two) illegal acts, the judicial administrative department shall order the return of illegal property, and may impose a fine of more than 0+65438 times and less than 3 times the value of the property. Twenty-ninth lawyers who violate professional ethics and practice discipline in handling legal aid cases shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the Lawyers Law. Legal aid refers to a legal guarantee system that legal aid agencies established by the government or lawyers of non-governmental organizations provide legal services for people with financial difficulties or special cases, especially in rural areas.

A special case refers to a case in which 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 in accordance with the provisions of the second and third paragraphs of Article 35 of the Criminal Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC). People's courts, people's procuratorates and public security organs shall notify legal aid institutions to appoint lawyers to defend them. 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. In September 2020, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of National Security and the Ministry of Justice jointly issued the Working Measures for Lawyers on Duty in Legal Aid.

Legal basis:

Legal aid law

Thirty-first parties to the following matters, due to financial difficulties, do not entrust an agent, you can apply for legal aid to legal aid institutions:

(1) Requesting state compensation according to law;

(2) Requesting social insurance benefits or social assistance;

(3) Requesting a pension;

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

(5) Requesting confirmation of labor relations or payment of labor remuneration;

(6) Requesting a citizen to have no or limited capacity for civil conduct;

(seven) claims for personal injury caused by industrial accidents, traffic accidents, food and drug safety accidents and medical accidents;

(eight) to claim compensation for environmental pollution and ecological damage;

(nine) other circumstances stipulated by laws, regulations and rules.