Legal aid refers to a legal protection system in which legal aid agencies established by the government organize legal aid lawyers to provide free legal services to parties with financial difficulties or special cases. Special cases refer to cases where, according to Article 34 of the Criminal Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China, the defendant in a criminal case is blind, deaf, mute or a minor and has not appointed a defender, or the defendant may be If a person is sentenced to death and no defender is entrusted, legal aid shall be provided. Therefore, not all lawyers have the obligation to provide legal aid. Only under certain conditions, lawyers have the obligation to provide legal aid. C. Under what circumstances can I apply for legal aid? According to the provisions of Articles 10 and 11 of the "Legal Aid Regulations of the People's Republic of China" [1], if a citizen has any of the following matters and has not entrusted an agent or defender, he or she may apply for legal aid or have the People's Court Designated defense: 1. Requesting state compensation according to law. 2. Request for social insurance benefits or minimum living security benefits. 3. Request for pensions and relief funds. 4. Requesting the payment of alimony or child support. Paying alimony, support, and support. 5. Request for payment of labor remuneration. 6. Claims for civil rights arising from acts of bravery and righteousness. 7. Cases of personal injury compensation due to medical accidents, traffic accidents, and work-related injuries. 8. Cases in which the victim requests divorce and personal injury compensation due to domestic violence, abuse, and bigamy. Cases in which a criminal suspect has not hired a lawyer due to financial difficulties since the day he was first interrogated or taken compulsory measures by the investigative agency. Cases in which the victim of a public prosecution case, his legal representative, and close relatives have not retained an attorney due to financial difficulties since the date the case was transferred for review and prosecution. The private prosecutor and his agent ad litem in a private prosecution case have not appointed an agent ad litem due to financial difficulties since the day the People's Court accepted the case. 12. In cases where the public prosecutor appears in court for public prosecution, the defendant has not appointed a defender due to financial difficulties or other reasons. , if the People's Court designates a defense for the defendant, the legal aid agency shall provide legal aid13. If the defendant is blind, deaf, mute or a minor and has not appointed a defender, or the defendant may be sentenced to death and has not appointed a defender, and the people's court appoints a defender for the defendant, the legal aid institution shall provide legal aid and shall not be responsible for the defence. The defendant's duty to provide a defence. If the People's Court designates a defense for the defendant, the legal aid agency shall provide legal aid and shall not examine the defendant's financial status. Perhaps most people will stand on the most direct view of right and wrong and look at related criminal activities from a perceptual perspective, but the work of lawyers does not allow this. As a criminal suspect in a criminal case, no matter how heinous he is, he should be punished by justice. Some legitimate rights and interests respected by the department. Throughout the entire process, it was precisely because of the lawyers that the rights and interests of the criminal suspects were fully protected. Legal objectives:
Article 12 of the "Law of the People's Republic of China on Legal Aid and State Legal Aid" The judicial administrative departments of the people's governments at or above the county level shall establish legal aid institutions. Legal aid agencies are responsible for organizing and implementing legal aid work, accepting and reviewing legal aid applications, assigning lawyers, grassroots legal service workers, legal aid volunteers and other legal aid personnel to provide legal aid, and issuing legal aid subsidies. Article 13 of the Legal Aid Law of the People's Republic of China stipulates that according to work needs, legal aid institutions may arrange for their own staff with lawyer qualifications or legal professional qualifications to provide legal aid; they may set up nearby legal aid workstations or contact points, Accept legal aid applications. Article 14 of the Legal Aid Law of the People's Republic of China***, national legal aid institutions may station duty lawyers in people's courts, people's procuratorates, and detention centers to provide legal aid to criminal suspects and defendants who have no defenders in accordance with the law.