Legal aid agencies will arrange for personnel with lawyer qualifications or legal professional qualifications to work based on work needs. Rule of Law Daily, Beijing, August 17 - Reporter Pu The third

Legal aid agencies will arrange for personnel with lawyer qualifications or legal professional qualifications to work based on work needs. Rule of Law Daily, Beijing, August 17 - Reporter Pu The third review draft of the Legal Aid Law was submitted to the 30th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress for review today. Some members of the Standing Committee and departments proposed that in order to meet actual needs, it is a realistic approach for legal aid institutions to designate qualified staff to provide legal aid, and it should be reflected in the law. In this regard, the third review draft of the case has added a provision that legal aid institutions can arrange for staff with lawyer qualifications or legal professional qualifications to provide legal aid according to work needs. Some members of the Standing Committee and local governments have proposed rational allocation of legal service resources to provide more support for legal aid work in remote areas. In order to implement the spirit of relevant central government documents, the third review draft added a provision: "The state shall establish and improve systems and mechanisms for the cross-regional flow of legal service resources in accordance with the law, and encourage and support the flow of lawyers and legal aid volunteers to areas where legal service resources are relatively scarce. Encourage and support lawyers and legal aid volunteers to provide legal aid to areas where legal service resources are relatively scarce. Some members of the Standing Committee suggested that the service methods and content of legal aid agencies should be further improved to protect the legitimate rights and interests of parties. The third review draft stipulates that legal aid agencies should remind parties of their right to apply for legal aid in accordance with the law and inform them of the conditions and procedures for applying for legal aid. Some members of the Standing Committee and departments have suggested that legal aid and lawyer defense in criminal cases be fully covered in the pilot work. Based on this suggestion, the third draft of the draft further adds a provision to the existing provisions: "In other cases that are subject to ordinary procedures, if the defendant does not appoint a defender, the people's court may based on this. If the actual situation arises, notify the legal aid agency to appoint a lawyer to serve as the defender. Some members of the Standing Committee proposed that the people's courts, people's procuratorates, and public security organs should respect the parties' right to entrust defense when notifying legal aid agencies to assign lawyers for defense. In this regard, the third review draft adds a provision: "When the People's Court, People's Procuratorate, and Public Security Bureau notify legal aid institutions to appoint lawyers as defenders, they shall not restrict or damage the rights of criminal suspects or defendants to appoint defenders."