Legal basis: opinions on carrying out the work of legal aid lawyers.
Article 1 Legal aid institutions shall station lawyers on duty in people's courts and detention centers to provide legal aid to criminal suspects and defendants without defenders. People's courts, people's procuratorates and public security organs shall inform criminal suspects and defendants of their right to legal aid from lawyers on duty. If a criminal suspect, a criminal defendant and their close relatives request legal aid, the people's court, the people's procuratorate and the public security organ shall notify the lawyer on duty to provide legal aid.
Article 2 A lawyer on duty for legal aid shall perform the following duties according to law: (1) Answering legal advice. (two) to guide and help criminal suspects, criminal defendants and their close relatives to apply for legal aid and hand over the application materials. (3) In the pilot reform of the lenient system of pleading guilty, providing legal advice, procedure selection, application for change of compulsory measures and other legal assistance to criminal suspects and criminal defendants who voluntarily plead guilty, and putting forward suggestions on conviction and sentencing by procuratorial organs. The criminal suspect shall sign a confession and repentance in the presence of the lawyer on duty. (4) Acting as an agent for complaints and accusations of extorting confessions by torture or illegally obtaining evidence. (five) to undertake other tasks assigned by legal aid institutions. Legal aid lawyers do not provide court defense services. A criminal suspect or defendant who meets the requirements of legal aid may be represented by a lawyer appointed by a legal aid institution upon application or notification.