China News Service, September 24, Xiong Xuanguo, Deputy Minister of Justice, said on the 24th that starting from 2017, the Ministry of Justice and the Supreme People’s Court have deployed a pilot program for full coverage of lawyer defense in criminal cases. Up to now, there are more than 2,300 counties across the country. (Cities, districts) have carried out pilot work, accounting for more than 80% of the total county-level administrative regions, and the national criminal case lawyer defense rate has reached 66%.
On the morning of the 24th, the Information Office of the State Council held a press conference on judicial administrative services to ensure the comprehensive construction of a well-off society.
At the meeting, a reporter asked: With the development and progress of society, legal services have gradually become a rigid need of the people.
In terms of promoting the improvement of legal services, what measures has the Ministry of Justice adopted to enable the public to enjoy public legal services?
In addition, legal aid is an important part of public legal services. What are the highlights of the Ministry of Justice in innovative legal aid services?
What is the current progress of the full coverage of lawyer defense in criminal cases carried out by the Ministry of Justice?
Xiong Xuanguo responded that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Ministry of Justice has given full play to its judicial administrative functions, accelerated the construction of a public legal service system, and provided high-quality and efficient legal services and guarantees for the rule of law to build a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way.
One is the basic formation of a public legal service network covering urban and rural areas.
The Ministry of Justice has vigorously promoted the construction of three platforms of entities, networks and hotlines. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, more than 566,000 public legal service entities have been established at the five levels of provinces, cities, counties, townships, and villages. Full coverage.
Since its launch in 2018, China Legal Service Network has accumulated 1.4 billion visits, more than 11 million registered public, more than 39 million legal consultations, more than 7.9 million online services, and a user satisfaction rate of 95%.
The 12348 public legal service hotline platform covers counties and cities, and the number of answers is growing rapidly. It is expected to exceed 12 million this year.
The ordinary people can obtain free legal services anytime and anywhere through the phone, the Internet or the WeChat mini program, realizing the "seamless connection" between public legal services and the masses.
The second is to provide high-quality and efficient public legal services for the people with fruitful results.
Over the years, the Ministry of Justice has carried out the "Legal Aid to Benefit the People's Livelihood and Poverty and Go towards a Well-off" activity nationwide to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the people in need and help win the battle against poverty.
Open the "green channel" for migrant workers to ask for help in arrears of wages, so as to realize the problem of migrant workers' wages arrears in one network.
In addition, in the past three years, more than 200 lawyers have been selected to provide legal aid services to the No-Lawyer County in Tibet.
Since 2013, legal aid agencies across the country have organized and handled more than 12.89 million legal aid cases, provided 65.4 million legal consultations, and reached 13.76 million aid recipients.
Arbitration institutions across the country have handled more than 2.3 million arbitration cases. Notarization institutions across the country handle about 12 million notarization cases each year, and the average annual business volume of judicial appraisal is over 2 million.
The third is to guide the majority of lawyers to practice for the people with remarkable results.
At present, there are more than 540,000 lawyers across the country, handling more than 11 million legal affairs of various types each year, and acting as legal consultants for more than 779,000 party and government agencies, enterprises and institutions.
For example, in 2020, the number of litigation cases handled by lawyers nationwide is about 6.61 million, and the number of non-litigation legal affairs handled is about 4.01 million.
Lawyers and grassroots legal service workers acted as legal consultants for more than 640,000 villages (residents), and each village (resident) legal consultant provided no less than 1 time and no less than 4 hours of on-site legal services per month, making them millions of households. The legal knowledge "promoter" at the door of the household, the "mediator" for conflicts and disputes, the "guide" for legal proceedings, and the "liaison" for legal aid.
Xiong Xuanguo said that starting from 2017, the Ministry of Justice and the Supreme People’s Court have deployed pilot work covering full coverage of lawyers’ defense in criminal cases. Over 80% of the total number of regions, the defense rate of lawyers in criminal cases across the country has reached 66%.
At the same time, we have actively promoted the trial work of lawyer mediation. More than 8,800 lawyer mediation studios have been established nationwide, and more than 55,000 lawyer mediators have been developed. The total number of mediation cases has exceeded 300,000.
In 2019, the Ministry of Justice organized a special action for lawyers to help poverty alleviation, starting with the rule of law and poverty alleviation, giving full play to the role of lawyers in legal services, and striving to help decisively overcome poverty with accurate, inclusive, convenient and high-quality legal services, and help build a well-off society in an all-round way society.
Xiong Xuanguo pointed out that the Ministry of Justice encourages lawyers to actively participate in public welfare legal services. In 2020, lawyers across the country handled more than 940,000 legal aid cases and provided more than 1.1 million public welfare legal services to the people. They have practiced people’s lawyers for the people. Practice philosophy.
Xiong Xuanguo said that in the next step, the Ministry of Justice will adhere to the people-centered development concept, continue to promote the balanced development of basic public legal services, promote the diversification and professionalization of public legal services, and continue to innovate and strengthen the public legal service management system and working mechanism. The people's sense of gain, happiness and security.