Whether it is for relatives and friends, or for arrested criminal suspects and defendants, it is most conducive to protecting their legitimate rights and interests to find a lawyer to intervene at the first time.
When a family member is under criminal detention, under normal circumstances, the organ taking detention measures will notify the family member in time. At this time, you can also visit people who are under criminal detention, but the object of visit can only be hired lawyers, not non-lawyers.
Legal basis: Article 28 of the Lawyers Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) can engage in the following businesses: (1) Accepting 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.