Research On The Criminal Legal Aid System Of Our Country

In order to safeguard social fairness and justice, guarantee for economic reasons can not guarantee its litigation rights of the parties, China established in 1996 "the People’s Republic of China criminal procedure" and "lawyer law" and the implementation of the criminal legal aid system. The legal aid system is that:in the course of criminal proceedings, by the state for those economically is indeed difficult to get legal assistance lawyers personnel to provide financial assistance, by a lawyer to provide legal help, in order to ensure the legal rights to obtain the legal system maintenance. Different criminal legal aid system and the civil and administrative legal aid system has its own unique characteristics. The main body of criminal legal aid system has state, are widespread, process integrity, special objects. And, for many years since the implementation of the criminal legal aid system to play its important role, such as helping the disadvantaged groups, the pursuit of equality and justice; respect and safeguard human rights, maintain and safeguard social stability; the interests of justice, promote social progress and civilization; perfect the system, promote the world legal culture exchange and fusion.However, although the system has been used for more than twenty years, and in 2012 the new "criminal procedural law" revised in 2013, both houses of the judicial interpretation on to make the relevant provisions and supplementary, but there are still many problems:the legislative defects of criminal legal aid in China is still very prominent; coverage system is still very narrow; contradiction of law aid serious supply and demand; defense is not sufficient cause social credibility decline; the cross department coordination backfire; the legal aid fund shortage. Therefore, it is necessary to perfect the legal aid system, improve the scientific and feasibility of the system:to improve the relevant legislation, strengthen the legal aid system of the legal aid system to expand the scope of object, do should do aid; to strengthen the implementation of the legal aid system, improve the execution of the system; to strengthen the construction of legal aid work team, ease the contradiction between supply and demand of law aid; improve the quality of legal aid cases, enhance the credibility of the assistance of counsel; improve the Cohesion Mechanism of criminal legal aid agencies and the Department of political science and law; the establishment of funds guarantee system, to provide adequate financial security.