Is there a free legal hotline?

The national free legal consultation telephone number is 12348.

12348 is the national unified telephone number for legal aid consultation.

Legal aid refers to a legal guarantee system that legal aid agencies established by the government or lawyers of non-governmental organizations provide legal services for people with financial difficulties or special cases, especially in rural areas. A special case refers to a case where the criminal suspect or defendant is blind, deaf or dumb, or a mental patient who has not completely lost the ability to identify or control his own behavior, and has not entrusted a defender. People's courts, people's procuratorates and public security organs shall notify legal aid institutions to appoint lawyers to defend them. If a criminal suspect or defendant may be sentenced to life imprisonment or death without entrusting a defender, the people's court, the people's procuratorate and the public security organ shall notify the legal aid institution to appoint a lawyer to defend him.

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 behavior 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 shall reduce or exempt the legal service fee for the recipient, and the court shall reduce or exempt the case acceptance fee and other litigation fees for the recipient.

5. The forms of legal aid include both litigation legal services and non-litigation legal services. Mainly take the following forms: criminal defense and criminal agency; Agents in civil and administrative litigation; Non-litigation legal affairs agency; Notarial certificate.

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People's Republic of China (PRC) legal aid law

Article 17 The State encourages and regulates voluntary legal aid services; Support qualified individuals as legal aid volunteers to provide legal aid according to law. Institutions of higher learning and scientific research institutions can organize personnel engaged in legal education and research and students majoring in law as legal aid volunteers to provide legal advice, drafting legal documents and other legal aid to the parties under the guidance of the judicial administrative department. The specific measures for the administration of legal aid volunteers shall be formulated by the relevant departments of the State Council.