Procedures for lawyers to meet suspects:
1. If a lawyer is entrusted by a criminal suspect or defendant to provide legal aid or act as a defender, he shall issue a letter of introduction from the law firm, a power of attorney and a lawyer's practice certificate to the detention center when meeting with the criminal suspect or defendant.
2. If a lawyer proposes to meet the criminal suspect, he shall arrange a meeting within 48 hours. For the crime of organizing, leading or participating in underworld organizations, the crime of organizing, leading or participating in terrorist activities, or major and complicated cases such as smuggling crimes, drug crimes, corruption and bribery involving more than two people, if the lawyer proposes to meet with the criminal suspect, he shall arrange a meeting within 5 days.
Lawyers can engage in the following businesses:
(a) to accept the entrustment of natural persons, legal persons or other organizations as legal advisers;
(two) to accept the entrustment of the parties in civil cases and administrative cases, to act as agents and to participate in litigation;
(3) Accepting the entrustment of criminal suspects and defendants in criminal cases or legal aid agencies to act as defenders according to law, accepting the entrustment of private prosecutors in private prosecution cases, victims in public prosecution cases or their close relatives to participate in litigation as agents;
(four) to accept the entrustment and represent the complaints of various litigation cases;
(five) to accept the entrustment and participate in mediation and arbitration activities;
(6) Accepting entrustment to provide non-litigation legal services;
(seven) to answer questions about the law and write litigation documents and other documents related to legal affairs.
Legal basis:
Criminal Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China
Article 39 A defense lawyer may meet and correspond with a criminal suspect or defendant in custody. Other defenders, with the permission of the people's courts and people's procuratorates, may also meet and correspond with criminal suspects and defendants in custody. If a defense lawyer holds a lawyer's practice certificate, a law firm's certificate, a power of attorney or a letter of legal aid to ask for a meeting with the criminal suspect or defendant in custody, the detention center shall arrange the meeting in time, which shall not exceed 48 hours at the latest. In criminal cases endangering national security and terrorist activities, defense lawyers should obtain permission from the investigation organ when meeting with the criminal suspect in custody during the investigation.