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Legal aid: Legal aid refers to the legal aid organization established by the government to organize lawyers for economic difficulties or special cases (special cases refer to the people's court where the criminal suspect or defendant is blind, deaf, dumb or has not completely lost the ability to identify or control his own behavior, and the criminal suspect or defendant may be sentenced to life imprisonment or death without a defender according to the provisions of the second and third paragraphs of Article 34 of the Criminal Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC). ) provide legal services free of charge. The outline of the Tenth Five-Year Plan of China defines "establishing a legal aid system" as the social development goal of the Tenth Five-Year Plan. The 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China put forward "actively developing legal aid" as an important content of building socialist political civilization.
1. Legal aid is the responsibility of the state and the behavior of the government, which is organized and implemented by the legal aid agency established by the government. It embodies the obligations of the state and the government to citizens.
2. Legal aid is a legal and institutionalized behavior and an important part of the national social security system.
3 recipients are persons with financial difficulties, the disabled, the weak or special objects designated by the people's court.
4. The legal aid institution shall reduce or exempt the legal service fee for the recipient, and the court shall reduce or exempt the case acceptance fee and other litigation fees for the recipient.
5. The forms of legal aid include both litigation legal services and non-litigation legal services. Mainly take the following forms: criminal defense and criminal agency; Agents in civil and administrative litigation; Non-litigation legal affairs agency; Notarial certificate.