1. Are there legal fees for criminal cases?
1. There is no legal fee for criminal cases, and there is no legal fee for people's courts to hear incidental civil cases. Legal fees refer to the fees that should be paid by the parties when they bring a lawsuit to the people's court, including case acceptance fees and other litigation fees.
2. Legal basis:
Article 199 of the Supreme People's Court's Interpretation of Application stipulates that the people's court shall hear incidental civil cases without charging legal fees.
Article 2 of the Measures for Payment of Litigation Fees stipulates that the parties to civil or administrative litigation shall pay litigation fees in accordance with these Measures. Except for the provisions of these Measures that litigation fees may not be paid or exempted.
Second, what is the cost of criminal proceedings?
1. Criminal cases are different from civil cases. There is no legal fee for criminal proceedings, and all public prosecution cases are handled by the procuratorate. If a lawyer is entrusted, a lawyer's agency fee or service fee shall be charged. Fees vary from place to place, and the specific fees can be negotiated by the parties and lawyers. Generally speaking, there are piecework fees, fees according to bid amount and fees according to time. According to the provisions of the State Criminal Procedure Law, all cases that need to be prosecuted must be examined and decided by the people's procuratorate.
2. Article 10 of the Measures for the Administration of Lawyers' Service Fees stipulates that lawyers can charge fees according to different service contents, such as piecework fees, fees in proportion to the amount of the bid, and hourly fees.
Piece rate is generally applicable to legal affairs that do not involve property relations; Charging according to the proportion of the winning bid amount is applicable to legal affairs involving property relations; Time charge is applicable to all legal affairs.