2009-04-18

Guiyang Legal Aid Centers to Improve Services for Migrant Workers

贵阳:农民工申请法律援助司法机关须限时受理

Xinhua News, 2009-04-18

To better serve migrant works with legal problems, the Guiyang (Guizhou Province) Legal Aid Center issued new regulations requiring all the city's legal aid centers and stations to examine and approve (or deny) all applications for legal aid from migrant workers within five days. In “mass incidents” involving migrant workers, legal aid centers are to accept cases and assign lawyers on the same day applications are submitted. The city has also signed legal aid cooperation agreements with 35 other major cities around China in an effort to improve access to case materials and evidence related to cases involving migrant workers.

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