The legal basis is as follows:
Legal aid regulations
Twenty-second personnel handling legal aid cases shall abide by professional ethics and practice discipline, and shall not collect any property when providing legal aid.
Twenty-sixth legal aid institutions and their staff in any of the following circumstances, the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be punished according to law:
(a) to provide legal aid to those who do not meet the conditions of legal aid, or to refuse to provide legal aid to those who meet the conditions of legal aid;
(two) handling legal aid cases to collect property;
(three) engaged in paid legal services;
(four) embezzlement and misappropriation of legal aid funds.
The property collected in handling legal aid cases shall be ordered to be returned by the judicial administrative department; The illegal income from engaging in paid legal services shall be confiscated by the judicial administrative department; Those who embezzle, privately divide or misappropriate legal aid funds shall be ordered to recover by the judicial administrative department. If the circumstances are serious enough to constitute a crime, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law.
Twenty-eighth lawyers in any of the following circumstances, given a warning by the judicial administrative department, ordered to make corrections; If the circumstances are serious, a penalty of stopping practicing 1 month or more and 3 months or less shall be imposed:
(1) Refusing to accept or terminate a legal aid case without justifiable reasons;
(two) handling legal aid cases to collect property.
Where there is an illegal act in Item (2) of the preceding paragraph, the judicial administrative department shall order the return of the illegally obtained property, and may concurrently impose a fine of not less than 0 times but not more than 3 times the value of the collected property.