Legal aid refers to lawyers who are organized by legal aid institutions established by the government to provide legal aid for economic difficulties or special cases (special cases refer to those in which the criminal suspect or defendant is blind, deaf or dumb, or a mental patient who has not completely lost the ability to identify or control his own behavior, according to the provisions of the second and third paragraphs of Article 34 of the Criminal Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), and the people's court, the people's procuratorate and the public security organ shall notify the legal aid institutions to appoint lawyers for him. ) provide legal services free of charge.
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The outline of the Tenth Five-Year Plan of China defines "establishing a legal aid system" as the social development goal of the Tenth Five-Year Plan. The 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China put forward "actively developing legal aid" as an important content of building socialist political civilization.
Legal aid is a social welfare undertaking to help the poor and protect the legitimate rights and interests of the vulnerable groups in society, and it is also an important measure for China to implement the general plan of governing the country according to law and build a well-off society in an all-round way. The Central Committee and the State Council attach great importance to legal aid. The outline of the Tenth Five-Year Plan of the country defines "establishing a legal aid system" as the social development goal of the Tenth Five-Year Plan, and the Sixteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly puts forward "actively developing legal aid" as an important content of building socialist political civilization. The promulgation and implementation of the Regulations on Legal Aid and the launch of the large-scale public welfare activity "Fair and just legal aid for China" marked a new expansion and breakthrough in the breadth and depth of legal aid work in China.
At present, in China, there are still a group of people or classes who are in an unfavorable social position due to the low state of nature, economy, society and culture. It is difficult to solve the pressure brought by social problems like normal people and get into trouble. This is the so-called vulnerable group. As an important part of the judicial system, legal aid provides legal help to people who lack the ability and financial difficulties, so that they can stand before the law on an equal footing and enjoy equal legal protection. Legal aid system is the inevitable product of the development of human legal civilization and legal culture to a certain stage, and the result of the progress of national economic and social civilization and the enhancement of the concept of rule of law. It is an inevitable choice to help the people solve the difficult litigation problem through legal means under the background of building a socialist country ruled by law in China, and it is an important guarantee to promote judicial justice.