The scope of clients in criminal cases

The scope of clients in criminal cases is as follows:

1, the suspect or the defendant himself;

2. Legal representatives of criminal suspects and defendants;

3. Close relatives of criminal suspects and defendants;

4. The person entrusted by the criminal suspect or defendant.

What are the entrustment procedures of the Criminal Procedure Law?

The entrustment procedure of the Criminal Procedure Law is as follows:

1. If a lawyer is entrusted, the law firm shall first sign an entrustment agreement with the client, one for the client and one for the law firm;

2. Then the client signs the power of attorney in triplicate, one for the case-handling organ, one for the contractor's lawyer to file, and one for the client himself;

3. Finally, a letter of introduction is required from the law firm, which is submitted by the lawyer to the case-handling organ.

Legal basis: Article 108 of the Criminal Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC).

The meanings of the following terms in this Law are:

(1) "Investigation" refers to the work of public security organs and people's procuratorates to collect evidence and ascertain the facts of criminal cases and the relevant compulsory measures taken according to law;

(2) "Parties" refer to victims, private prosecutors, criminal suspects, defendants, plaintiffs and defendants in incidental civil actions;

(3) "Legal representative" refers to the parents, adoptive parents and guardians of the client and the representatives of the organs and organizations responsible for protection;

(4) "Participants in litigation" refers to the parties, legal representatives, agents ad litem, defenders, witnesses, expert witnesses and translators;

"Agent ad litem" refers to the victim of a public prosecution case and his legal representative or near relative, the person entrusted by the private prosecutor and his legal representative in a private prosecution case to participate in the litigation on his behalf, and the person entrusted by the party involved in an incidental civil litigation and his legal representative to participate in the litigation on his behalf;

(6) "Close relatives" refer to husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, brothers and sisters.