DocumentNo.: Issuing Authority: Ministry of Justice Effective Date: 1983-05- 10
Shanxi Provincial Department of Justice:
Your Bureau's Letter from the Notary Lawyers' Management Office on whether lawyers can accept the entrusted complaint of criminals sentenced to punishment and their families (No.82 ぉ 129) has been received. Through research, because the current Criminal Procedure Law, the Provisional Regulations on Lawyers and other laws and regulations in China have not yet included the agency complaint into the scope of lawyers' business, some legal advisory offices have tried it in the past, but it is difficult to carry it out because of the lack of legal basis, so it is not appropriate to list it as a lawyer's business. At present, it is common practice everywhere that lawyers only write complaints to the parties, and the parties themselves come forward to complain.