(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.