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Survey On Legal Aid Status Quo At Chengguan District Of Lanzhou City

Posted on:2008-06-29Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X Y YangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2166360215957537Subject:Law
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The legal aid system is a legal safeguard system recognized by the international community. At present, more than 140 countries in the world have established legal aid system.Legal aid system as the fundamental system which is protecting human rights was originated in the middle ages in Britain. In 1424, Scotland promulgated a bill stipulating that "justice should be equal to the poor" and provided that the poor have the right of free legal fees. Later, a registry system was created for the poor that a register can receive free legal help when they bring a lawsuit. The proposed bills and systems opened the first page of the history of legal aid. In 1851, France passed a bill which confirmed legal aid act. The first legal aid bill of the world was established in France in 1887. Thus, the establishment of the modern legal aid system has started . Then, the legal aid system was developed around the world, and the United States, Germany, Japan, Sweden, Denmark have established the legal aid system after England and France.Comparing with the Western countries, our country's legal aid system was established much later. In mid-1990s, our country proposed to establish the legal aid system with Chinese characteristics .Firstly, Guangzhou, Zhengzhou, Wuhan, and Shanghai launched a campaign to establish legal aid system. Then it was spread all over China. Our country achieved great success in 10 years of development. Gansu Province, an economically underdeveloped region, established the legal aid system later compared with the other parts of the country. The provincial legal aid center was set up in 1999 and Lanzhou City Legal Aid Center in 2002. The object of my survey—Chengguan District Legal Aid Center was set up only one year. I choose the Chengguan district as investigation target because it is guidance to other economically underdeveloped regions. Chengguan District Legal Aid Center which was established only one year was selected as one of the first guiding legal aid organization, showing that the legal aid of it was very innovative. Survey on the legal aid status quo at Chengguan district of Lanzhou city and the summarization of their experiences and lessons have significance to other district's developing legal aid work.This paper is divided into four parts to investigate the legal aid status quo of Chengguan district of Lanzhou city. The first part, on the base of sorting out the origin and the general situation of our country's legal aid system, introduces the Course of setting up the Chengguan District Legal Aid Center and the establishment of related legal aid system. In the second part, we investigated the status of the legal aid implementation of Chengguan District Legal Aid Center in the period of 2005-2006 by classification. The investigation's main contents include: subject of legal aid, scope of the legal aid and targets, quality of legal aid cases, and publicity work of legal aid. Then, on the basis of itemized collation of survey data, we analyzed the work status and their causes of Chengguan District Legal Aid Center. The third part sums up the characteristics of Chengguan District Legal Aid Center on the basis of classified investigation. The last part points out the problems existing in the work of legal aid of Chengguan district and gives several suggestions to perfect it's work combining the experiences of both inside and outside the province and other countries .1 hope that it can give a help to the development and perfection of our country's legal aid system.
Keywords/Search Tags:Legal aid, Survey, Vulnerable groups, Problem, Proposal
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