Legal aid is for:People with financial difficultiesorSpecial CasesPartiesFree legal help is availablesystem.
It can be providing legal advice, drafting legal documents, and providing a variety of litigation and non-litigation**.
So when can I apply? According to the provisions of the Legal Aid Ordinance, the matters that can be applied for legal aid are quite broad. You can apply for legal aid if you meet the following conditions:
Civil and administrative categories mainly include:
1. Requesting compensation from the state in accordance with law; (That is, you ask the state to pay you money).
2. Requesting social insurance benefits or minimum subsistence security benefits; (Need to get social security benefits or low-income household treatment but do not enjoy it).
3. Requesting the payment of bereavement allowances or relief funds; (Pensions, benefits were needed but not received).
4. Requests for alimony, child support, or alimony; (Alimony, child support, alimony are needed but others do not give them).
5. Requesting payment of labor remuneration; (The boss does not pay wages or does not pay full wages, etc., and does not act in accordance with the law).
6. Asserting civil rights and interests arising from acts of righteousness and courage; (Righteousness and courage are not guaranteed).
7. The legitimate rights and interests are infringed due to work-related accidents, road traffic accidents, medical accidents, or food and drug safety accidents; (Because of these accidents, your rights and interests have been damaged, but you have not received legal compensation).
8. Lawful rights and interests are infringed upon due to domestic violence, abuse, or abandonment; (Abandoned by domestic violence abuse and in need of legal help).
9. The lawful rights and interests are infringed due to environmental pollution, public health, or production safety accidents; (Because of these accidents you need to pay compensation, etc.).
10. Persons with disabilities, minors, the elderly, women, or migrant workers seeking compensation for infringement; (If it is not the above nine articles, but you are a disabled person, a minor, an elderly, a woman, or a migrant worker, and you have been bullied and violated your rights and interests, you can also consult legal aid).
11. Other matters requiring legal aid.
For criminal cases, the law stipulates that in addition to public security organs, procuratorial organs, and people's courts notifying legal aid institutions to appoint lawyers to provide defense for minors, blind, deaf-mute, and criminal suspects or defendants who may be sentenced to life imprisonment or higher, criminal suspects and defendants, victims in public prosecution cases and their legally-designated persons or close relatives, and private prosecutors in private prosecution cases and their legally-designated personsDue to financial difficulties, it is impossible to hire a lawyer to provide legal servicescan also apply for legal aid.