The judicial administrative departments of the people's governments at or above the county level shall determine the legal aid institutions within their respective administrative areas according to their needs. Legal aid institutions shall organize legal service institutions and legal aid personnel according to law to provide free legal services such as legal consultation, agency and criminal defense for citizens who meet the provisions of these regulations.
Legal service institutions include law firms, grass-roots legal service offices, notarization institutions, judicial authentication institutions, etc.
Legal aid personnel include lawyers, grassroots legal service workers, notaries, judicial experts, staff of legal aid institutions and legal aid volunteers. Article 3 Legal aid is the responsibility of the government. The people's governments at or above the county level shall take measures to promote the work of legal aid, and incorporate the funds for legal aid into the fiscal budget at the corresponding level to ensure the coordinated development of legal aid and economy and society.
Encourage the society to donate legal aid activities. Natural persons, legal persons or other organizations that provide donations to legal aid shall enjoy preferential tax treatment in accordance with state regulations.
The funds for legal aid shall be used for special purposes, and shall be subject to the supervision of the financial and auditing departments. The donated funds for legal aid shall be subject to audit supervision according to law. Article 4 The judicial administrative department of the people's government at or above the county level is the competent department of legal aid work, and is responsible for supervising and managing the legal aid work within its administrative area.
Legal aid agencies are responsible for accepting and examining applications for legal aid, assigning or arranging legal service agencies and legal aid personnel to provide legal aid, and guiding and coordinating legal aid activities of legal service agencies and legal aid personnel. Article 5 People's courts, people's procuratorates, public security, civil affairs, finance, human resources and social security, land and resources, housing and urban and rural construction, health, environmental protection, industrial and commercial administration, quality and technical supervision, supervision and management of production safety, archives, letters and visits and other relevant departments shall do a good job in legal aid in accordance with laws, regulations and relevant state regulations.
Township people's governments and sub-district offices shall assist in legal aid work and provide help to citizens in need of legal aid. Article 6 Legal service institutions and legal aid workers shall perform their legal aid obligations in accordance with the provisions of laws and regulations, and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of recipients according to law.
Lawyers undertake at least two legal aid cases every year, except those assigned or arranged by non-legal aid agencies.
The judicial administrative departments of the people's governments at or above the county level shall co-ordinate the legal aid resources within their respective administrative areas, rationally allocate legal aid personnel, and handle cross-administrative legal aid cases. Seventh support trade unions, the Communist Youth League, women's federations, disabled persons' federations, etc. And use their own resources to provide legal aid to citizens with financial difficulties.
Encourage people with legal expertise in institutions of higher learning and other social organizations to participate in legal aid volunteer activities. Eighth people's governments at or above the county level and their judicial administrative departments shall strengthen the publicity of legal aid, popularize the knowledge of legal aid, and improve citizens' awareness and ability to safeguard their legitimate rights and interests according to law.
Radio, television, newspapers, internet and other media should take legal aid as the content of public welfare propaganda, and create a good social atmosphere for legal aid work. Chapter II Scope of Legal Aid Article 9 If a citizen fails to entrust an agent to handle the following matters that need to be represented due to financial difficulties, he may apply for legal aid from a legal aid institution:
(1) Requesting state compensation according to law;
(2) Requesting social insurance benefits or minimum living security benefits;
(3) Requesting pensions and relief funds;
(4) Requesting to pay alimony, alimony and alimony;
(5) Requesting payment of labor remuneration;
(six) to claim the civil rights and interests arising from the courageous behavior;
(7) claiming compensation for industrial accidents, traffic accidents, food safety accidents, environmental pollution accidents, product quality accidents and medical damage;
(eight) to protect the legitimate rights and interests of those who suffer from domestic violence, abuse or abandonment;
(nine) other matters that should be provided with legal aid according to law. Article 10 In criminal proceedings, if the victim of a public prosecution case and his legal representative or near relative, the private prosecutor of a private prosecution case and his legal representative fail to appoint an agent ad litem due to financial difficulties, they may apply to a legal aid institution for legal aid. Article 11 In criminal proceedings, if a criminal suspect or defendant has not entrusted a defender, he or his close relatives may apply to a legal aid institution for legal aid:
Economic difficulties;
(two) there is evidence to prove that the criminal suspect or defendant belongs to the first or second degree of mental disability;
(3) * * * In the same criminal case, other criminal suspects and defendants have entrusted defenders;
(4) The people's procuratorate lodged a protest;
(5) The case has a significant social impact. Twelfth in criminal proceedings, under any of the following circumstances, the people's court, the people's procuratorate and the public security organ shall notify the legal aid institutions to appoint lawyers to provide them with legal aid:
(1) The criminal suspect or defendant is a mental patient who is blind, deaf, dumb or has not completely lost the ability to identify or control his own behavior, and has not entrusted a defender;
(2) The criminal suspect or defendant may be sentenced to life imprisonment or death penalty, and has not entrusted a defender;
(3) The criminal suspect or defendant is a minor and has not entrusted a defender.