First, the judicial administrative organs guide lawyers to participate in maintaining social stability.
To maintain social harmony and stability is to properly handle various social contradictions and constantly eliminate disharmonious factors. In recent years, Foshan judicial administrative organs have actively guided lawyers to give full play to their functional advantages, actively assisted relevant departments to resolve mass incidents and mass demands, actively provided legal services to vulnerable groups such as farmers, laid-off workers and migrant workers, represented major disputes, promptly resolved social contradictions at the grassroots level, and eliminated hidden dangers of instability, and made fruitful explorations.
(1) Strengthen the management of lawyers and improve their consciousness of providing legal services for maintaining social harmony and stability. Through a series of activities such as centralized education and rectification of lawyers and standardized construction of law firms, the system of lawyer's practice publicity, credit record and quality supervision card is established to standardize the management of lawyer's practice behavior and promote the integrity and self-discipline of lawyers in our city. Timely issue some policy documents of governments at all levels and political and legal departments to law firms, guide lawyers to establish good standards for handling cases, and strive to maintain a high degree of consistency with the party Committee and government.
(2) Guide lawyers to give full play to their professional advantages and create a good legal environment for resolving social contradictions and disputes. First, carry out legal consultation activities around the work of party committees and governments at all levels. The second is to do a good job in legal education for young students. The city's law firms set up * * * units through schools, with lawyers as vice-presidents of legal system, and carried out legal consultation and legal aid activities on campus to actively prevent juvenile students from committing crimes. The third is to do a good job in the legal education of rural areas, communities and migrant workers. Recommend lawyers to enrich the team of lecturers, tour rural areas, communities and private enterprises to extensively carry out the activities of "law enters thousands of households" to improve the legal quality of the masses. The fourth is to use modern media to publicize the law. The city's law firms actively carry out legal publicity activities in the form of case statements by using the platform of Foshan Cable TV's "Window of the Legal System" column.
(three) to organize lawyers to assist the government petition departments to do a good job in the counseling of group petitions. In recent years, judicial administrative organs at all levels in the city have organized lawyers to participate in letters and visits according to law, and all legal aid offices and public offices have actively selected lawyers with good political quality and strong professional ability to participate in letters and visits. It mainly undertakes four tasks: 1, receiving visitors according to relevant requirements, providing legal advice to petitioners and guiding them to solve problems through legal channels; 2 accept the entrustment of the petition department, participate in the legal argumentation of major and difficult petition cases, and put forward legal suggestions; 3, the legal publicity and education of petitioners, to assist the relevant departments to do a good job of unreasonable petitioners; 4, to meet the conditions of legal aid, guide them to apply for legal aid in accordance with the prescribed procedures.
(four) to guide lawyers to represent sensitive cases and resolve major disputes that affect social stability in a timely manner. Judicial administrative organs at all levels in Foshan actively guide lawyers to represent sensitive cases, such as house demolition, closure and transfer of enterprises, resettlement of laid-off workers, illegal fund-raising, re-employment of demobilized cadres and demobilized veterans, democratic election of grassroots political power, arrears of project funds and labor remuneration. And require lawyers to focus on maintaining the overall situation of stability, adhere to policy orientation, take appeasement measures in time, control the development of the situation, and persuade both parties to solve contradictions and disputes legally and rationally.
(5) Organizing lawyers to provide legal aid to vulnerable groups and introducing contradictions and disputes into normal judicial procedures. At present, a networked and socialized legal aid institution system has been formed, with city, district and town (street) legal aid institutions as the main body. In recent years, the city's legal aid institutions have answered legal advice for more than 50,000 people10, and handled legal aid cases10/000, benefiting more than12,000 people.
Two, there are some problems and difficulties for lawyers to provide legal services to maintain social harmony and stability.
In recent years, judicial administrative organs at all levels have done a lot of work in guiding lawyers to play their functional roles and participate in maintaining social stability, and have also achieved certain results. However, there are also some difficulties and problems that need to be solved urgently in the work.
(1) Some departments are biased against lawyers' participation in maintaining stability. (2) The legal quality of citizens needs to be further improved. (3) The level of legal aid needs to be further broadened. (D) Lawyers' awareness of maintaining social harmony and stability needs to be enhanced.
Third, further promote the participation of lawyers in maintaining social stability.
(A) fully understand the role of lawyers in maintaining social harmony and stability. At present, China's important political task is to maintain social harmony and stability. As a defender of legal order and social interests, it is a lawyer's historical mission to give full play to his professional advantages, play a bridge role between the broad masses of the people and the government, actively ease social contradictions and safeguard social fairness and justice.
(2) Lawyers should strengthen self-discipline and actively provide quality and effective legal services for maintaining social stability. When handling major group dispute cases, lawyers should not only talk about law, but also politics and stability, correctly handle the relationship between law and stability, pay attention to social effects, explain relevant laws, regulations and policies to the parties, take the initiative to do a good job in the ideological stability of the parties, guide the masses to resolve contradictions through consultation or resolve disputes in accordance with legal procedures, and prevent the parties from taking excessive actions to affect the stability of local social order.
(three) judicial administrative organs at all levels and lawyers' associations should play a supervisory and guiding role and actively guide lawyers to provide legal services for maintaining social harmony and stability.
First, it is necessary to increase the publicity of lawyers' participation in maintaining stability. The second is to strengthen the policy guidance and information transmission of lawyers' participation in maintaining stability. The third is to establish and improve the mechanism for lawyers to participate in maintaining stability. Fourth, we must severely investigate and deal with lawyers' illegal acts.