Lawyers providing legal aid shall be notified by the people's courts, people's procuratorates and public security organs to appoint lawyers to defend them. So the credibility is extremely high.
Legal aid institutions are institutions responsible for organizing, guiding, coordinating, supervising and implementing legal aid work in their own regions, collectively referred to as "legal aid centers". The Ministry of Justice of the People's Republic of China has a legal aid center to guide and coordinate the legal aid work throughout the country. Judicial administrative organs at all levels should actively report to the Party committee and government, strive for the support of relevant departments, set up legal aid centers as soon as possible, and guide, coordinate and organize legal aid work in their own regions.
Where there is no legal aid center, the judicial bureau shall appoint personnel as legal aid centers. Law firms, notary offices and grassroots legal service institutions shall implement legal aid under the unified coordination of local legal aid centers. Legal aid activities carried out by other organizations and schools shall be subject to the guidance and supervision of the local legal aid center.
Legal aid in China has the following characteristics:
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 act 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 collects the legal service fee from the recipient, and the court reduces the litigation fee such as the case acceptance fee to 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.
Article 6 of the Regulations of the People's Republic of China on Legal Aid shall fulfill the obligation of legal aid in accordance with the Lawyers Law and these Regulations, provide legal services that meet the standards for the recipients, safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the recipients according to law, and accept the supervision of the lawyers' association and the judicial administrative department.