Legal aid refers to ensuring citizens with financial difficulties to obtain necessary legal services, promoting and standardizing legal aid work, and providing free legal advice, agency, criminal defense and other legal services for citizens who meet the conditions of legal aid.
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What is the content of legal aid? 1. The concept of legal aid Legal aid refers to a legal guarantee system in which legal aid agencies set up by the government organize legal aid lawyers to provide free legal services to parties in financial difficulties or special cases. 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 34 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. 2. The object of applying for legal aid (1) is within the scope of legal aid provisions (the case that needs to be resolved through litigation or arbitration procedures should have been filed); (two) there are sufficient reasons to prove that legal aid is really needed to protect their legitimate rights and interests; (3) Being unable or completely unable to pay legal service fees due to economic difficulties; (4) the city's household registration or holding a temporary residence permit in this city. 3. Materials for applying for legal aid (1) Resident ID card, household registration certificate or temporary residence permit; (2) street (township), the labor department and the relevant units issued by the applicant and his family members; (3) Basic information about the application for assistance and relevant case materials; (4) Notice of filing a case by a court or arbitration institution; (five) other materials required by the legal aid center. If the applicant is a minor or a person without legal capacity, his guardian shall apply on his behalf and submit a power of attorney.