2009-04-17

Guizhou Legal Aid to Achieve “From Top to Bottom, From Side to Side” Coverage

贵州初步形成“纵向到底、横向到边”的法律援助工作网

Xinhua News, 2009-04-17

According to the Guizhou Province Ministry of Justice Office, Guizhou now has 98 legal aid agencies at the provincial, city and county level staffed by 266 full-time employees and 1,668 volunteers. At the town and street level the province has 1,417 legal aid stations and 4,559 “legal aid interface stations or reception stations” at the village and neighborhood level. “Social groups, law schools and other groups” have also established 483 “legal aid work stations.” Government funding for legal aid increased to 16 million RMB in 2008, up from just 1.24 million in 2001.

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