Can grassroots legal service workers represent the cases of parties outside the jurisdiction?

1. Grassroots legal service workers can represent cases in which one party lives in the jurisdiction. In this case, they can act as agents of the parties within their jurisdiction or as agents of non-parties within their jurisdiction. 2. In civil cases, if the domicile of both parties is not within their jurisdiction, grassroots legal service workers may not act as agents.

Interpretation of the Supreme Court on the Civil Procedure Law

Article 88 In addition to the power of attorney provided in Article 59 of the Civil Procedure Law, an agent ad litem shall also submit relevant materials to the people's court in accordance with the following provisions:

(1) A lawyer shall submit a lawyer's practice certificate and certification materials of a law firm;

(2) Grassroots legal service workers shall submit the practicing certificate of legal service workers, the letter of introduction issued by grassroots legal service and the certification materials that one party is located in the jurisdiction;

(3) the close relatives of the parties shall submit the identity documents and certification materials related to the client;

(4) the staff members of the parties concerned shall submit their identity documents and proof materials of their legal labor and personnel relations with the parties concerned;

(5) citizens recommended by the community or unit to which the party belongs shall submit their identity documents, recommendation materials and certification materials of the community or unit to which the party belongs;

(6) Citizens recommended by relevant social organizations shall submit their identity documents and certification materials that meet the conditions stipulated in Article 87 of this Interpretation.

Reply of the Ministry of Justice on the case that grassroots legal service workers cannot represent any party outside their jurisdiction in civil economic and administrative litigation.

Jiangsu Provincial Department of Justice:

Your request for instructions on whether grassroots legal service workers can represent civil, economic and administrative litigation where one party is not within their jurisdiction (Su Si Ban [22] No.69) has been received. After research, the reply is as follows:

According to Item 4 of Article 24 of the Detailed Rules for the Work of Township Legal Service Offices, the location of one party in this jurisdiction is one of the conditions that grassroots legal service workers should have to represent civil, economic and administrative cases. Therefore, grassroots legal service workers cannot represent any civil, economic or administrative litigation cases where either party is not in their jurisdiction.