Legal Protection Of Legal Aid Funding Mechanism

As China’s social rule of law to speed up it’s process, legal aid system develops, the system reflects the contemporary socialist legal system civilization, and embodies the government’s responsibility.its social value is to protect human rights, ensure the equality before the law, and achieve social fairness and justice. The development of legal aid system largely depends on legal aid funds. Legal aid funds is the material foundation and the premise of legal aid system to carry out the work.At present, because of the problems of the legal aid funds, legal aid work has a lot of obstacles. Legal aid funds in our country legal safeguard mechanism has lots of problems, such as in the legislative level, the legislative status is lower, the provisions content is not system, and the lack of form a complete set of laws and. regulations, and in the judicial level, the amount of legal aid funds is less, funding channels are single, funding is not clear, it is difficult to reach the designated position, the use of funds and management lack supervision and restriction. The United States, Britain, Canada and Germany’ s law legal aid funds safeguard mechanism provides beneficial reference for our country. In order to ensure the smooth operation of the our country legal aid work, aiming at the problems existing in the legal aid money security mechanism in our country, we should enact law, draw lessons from foreign lawyers trust fund account plan, establish long-term effective mechanism to gradually increase the budget, strengthen the supervision and restriction of legal aid funds, set up the litigation expenses insurance system and other aspects, to perfect legal guarantee mechanism of legal aid funds in China.