Can grassroots legal service workers represent criminal cases?

Legal analysis: Yes. However, he can't appear in court as a lawyer, and his power of agency is limited. The business scope of the grass-roots legal service office is: (1) applying to be a legal adviser; (2) To accept the entrustment of the parties and act as an agent in civil, economic and administrative litigation; (three) to accept the entrustment of the parties and participate in arbitration activities and non-litigation legal affairs; (4) Accepting the entrustment of the defendant, or being appointed by the people's court, to act as the defender of the defendant in a minor criminal case that does not require investigation and only tells him not to handle it.

Legal basis: Criminal Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC).

Article 32 A criminal suspect or defendant may, in addition to exercising the right of defense, entrust one or two persons as defenders. The following persons may be entrusted as defenders:

(1) lawyers;

(2) A person recommended by a people's organization or the unit to which the criminal suspect or defendant belongs;

(3) Guardians, relatives and friends of criminal suspects and defendants.

A person who has been sentenced to punishment according to law or deprived of or restricted personal freedom shall not act as a defender.

Article 45 Entrusting an agent ad litem shall be carried out with reference to the provisions of Article 32 of this Law.