Shanghai legal aid center free consultation hotline

The free hotline of Shanghai Legal Aid Center is 12348.

Legal aid is a social welfare undertaking to help the poor and protect the legitimate rights and interests of the vulnerable groups in society, and it is also an important measure for China to implement the general plan of governing the country according to law and build a well-off society in an all-round way. The Central Committee and the State Council attach great importance to legal aid, and the outline of the Tenth Five-Year Plan defines the establishment of legal aid system as the social development goal of the Tenth Five-Year Plan. The 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly put forward that actively developing legal aid is an important content of building socialist political civilization. The promulgation and implementation of the Regulations on Legal Aid and the large-scale public welfare activities to realize fairness and justice in legal aid in China marked a new expansion and breakthrough in the breadth and depth of legal aid work in China.

At present, in China, there are still a group of people or classes who are in an unfavorable social position due to the low state of nature, economy, society and culture. It is difficult to solve the pressure brought by social problems like normal people and get into trouble. This is the so-called vulnerable group. As an important part of the judicial system, legal aid provides legal help to people who lack the ability and financial difficulties, so that they can stand before the law on an equal footing and enjoy equal legal protection. Legal aid system is the inevitable product of the development of human legal civilization and legal culture to a certain stage, and the result of the progress of national economic and social civilization and the enhancement of the concept of rule of law. It is an inevitable choice to help the people solve the difficult litigation problem through legal means under the background of building a socialist country ruled by law in China, and it is an important guarantee to promote judicial justice.

Legal aid in China has the following characteristics:

1. Legal aid is the responsibility of the state and the behavior of the government, which is organized and implemented by the legal aid agency established by the government. It embodies the obligations of the state and the government to citizens;

2. Legal aid is a legal and institutionalized act and an important part of the national social security system;

3 recipients are persons with financial difficulties, the disabled, the weak or special objects designated by the people's court;

4. The legal aid institution collects the legal service fee from the recipient, and the court reduces the litigation fee such as the case acceptance fee to the recipient;

5. The forms of legal aid include both litigation legal services and non-litigation legal services. Mainly take the following forms to carry out criminal defense and criminal agency, civil and administrative litigation agency, non-litigation legal affairs agency and notarization certificate.

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Legal aid regulations

Article 3 Legal aid is the responsibility of the government, and the people's governments at or above the county level shall take active measures to promote legal aid work, provide financial support for legal aid, and ensure the coordinated development of legal aid and economy and society.

The funds for legal aid shall be used for special purposes, and shall be subject to the supervision of the financial and auditing departments.