Requirements for applying for legal aid: 1. There are sufficient reasons to prove that legal aid is really needed to safeguard their legitimate rights and interests; 2. The recipient is unable to pay part or all of the legal service fees due to financial difficulties. Among them, the countryside belongs to the object of social assistance; The income of urban family members does not exceed the minimum living security line stipulated by the municipal government, and there is no other source of income; 3. The application matters are in line with the scope of legal aid.
Legal basis: Article 293 of the Criminal Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC). When the people's court tries a case by default, the defendant has the right to entrust a defender, and the close relatives of the defendant may also entrust a defender. If the defendant and his close relatives have not entrusted a defender, the people's court shall notify the legal aid institution to appoint a lawyer to defend him.
Article 28 of the Lawyers Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) may engage in the following businesses: (1) to accept the entrustment of natural persons, legal persons or other organizations to serve 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.