Legal analysis: 1, meeting time. In the investigation stage, the time for illegal suspects to hire lawyers is advanced from "after the first interrogation" in Article 34 of the current Criminal Procedure Law to "from the date of the first interrogation", and the Criminal Procedure Law also cancels the restriction that illegal suspects must obtain the consent of the investigation organ before hiring lawyers. Completely absorbed the rules of the lawyer law. 2. Meeting procedures. The new Criminal Procedure Law has absorbed Article 33 of the Lawyers Law, which stipulates that "a lawyer can meet a lawyer with a lawyer's practice certificate, a certificate from a law firm, a power of attorney or a letter of legal aid" (three certificates). 3. Meeting procedures. The provision that lawyers are not monitored when meeting criminal suspects and defendants cancels the provision that the current criminal procedure law can send personnel to be present when meeting with the investigation organ at the investigation stage according to the situation. For general cases, the lawyer's meeting is directly put forward to the detention center, which needs to be arranged within 48 hours at the latest. In practice, this provision definitely solves the problem that lawyers must be arranged by the case-handling organ during the investigation stage, but the 48-hour grace period in the detention center may bring new problems in practice. Once "forty-eight hours" becomes the norm, it will directly affect the overall meeting function of the three stages of investigation, review, prosecution and trial. 4. The scale of the meeting. Different from the Lawyers Law, the new Criminal Procedure Law cancels the restriction that lawyers should be approved by the investigation organ in the investigation stage, but increases the restriction that "defense lawyers should be approved by the investigation organ when meeting detainees in cases of violating national security, terrorist activities and particularly serious bribery". Therefore, in fact, compared with the current Criminal Procedure Law and Lawyers Law, the scale of lawyers meeting with detainees during investigation has expanded. That is, the lawyer's right to meet is obviously less than the current legal provisions. 5. Lawyers will not be monitored when meeting illegal suspects.
Legal basis: Article 39 of the Criminal Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), defense lawyers can meet and correspond with criminal suspects and defendants in custody. Other defenders, with the permission of the people's courts and people's procuratorates, may also meet and correspond with criminal suspects and defendants in custody. If a defense lawyer holds a lawyer's practice certificate, a law firm's certificate, a power of attorney or a letter of legal aid to ask for a meeting with the criminal suspect or defendant in custody, the detention center shall arrange the meeting in time, which shall not exceed 48 hours at the latest. In criminal cases endangering national security and terrorist activities, defense lawyers should obtain permission from the investigation organ when meeting with the criminal suspect in custody during the investigation. The investigation organ shall notify the detention center of the above situation in advance. When a defense lawyer meets a criminal suspect or defendant in custody, he can understand the case and provide legal advice. From the date when the case is transferred for examination and prosecution, the relevant evidence may be verified with the criminal suspect or defendant. Defense lawyers are not monitored when meeting with criminal suspects and defendants. The provisions of the first, third and fourth paragraphs shall apply to the meetings and correspondence between defense lawyers and criminal suspects and defendants who are under surveillance.