my country has a legal aid law that will come into effect on New Year's Day in 2022
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 20 (Reporters Ren Qinqin, Bai Yang, Zhai Xiang) The 30th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress voted on the 20th to pass the Legal Aid Law, which will come into effect on January 1, 2022.
The passage of this law is of great significance for better safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of citizens, safeguarding the correct implementation of the law, and safeguarding social fairness and justice.
According to this law, law firms, grassroots legal service offices, lawyers, and grassroots legal service workers are obligated to provide legal aid in accordance with the law; labor unions, Communist Youth League, Women’s Federation, Disabled Provisions of this law.
The matters that can apply for legal aid include requesting payment of alimony, alimony, support, requesting confirmation of labor relations or payment of labor remuneration, requesting compensation for personal injury in work accidents, traffic accidents, food and drug safety accidents, medical accidents, requesting environmental pollution, Compensation for ecological damage, etc.
In some cases, the parties’ application for legal aid is not restricted by financial difficulties. For example, the close relatives of heroes and martyrs defend the personality rights of heroes and martyrs, claim relevant civil rights because of their brave actions, and victims who have suffered abuse, abandonment or domestic violence. Related rights, etc.
The law provides for many measures to improve the level of legal aid services. For example, legal aid agencies should provide legal consulting services through service windows, telephones, and the Internet; for the elderly, the disabled and other groups, legal aid agencies are required to provide legal aid services based on actual conditions. Obstacle facilities, equipment and services.
The law has also strengthened the supervision of legal aid institutions and personnel, stipulating that the judicial administrative department should establish a legal aid complaint investigation system, formulate legal aid service quality standards, and conduct regular quality assessments through third-party evaluations; lawyers’ associations should The performance of legal aid obligations by law firms and lawyers is included in the annual assessment, and law firms and lawyers who refuse to perform or fail to perform their legal aid obligations shall be punished in accordance with relevant regulations.
In order to avoid the "worries" of legal aid agencies and personnel, the law requires people's governments at or above the county level to improve the legal aid security system, and stipulates that legal aid subsidies are dynamically adjusted and exempt from value-added tax and personal income tax.