The types of legal aid are:
—assistance in writing applications, complaints, petitions;
—participation in criminal, civil and arbitration proceedings;
—representing the client‘s interests in state and judicial authorities.
—counselling, and certificates;
Legal advice is a clarification of the current legislation, information about the content of those or other provisions of law. The lawyer needs to give advice and to provide help immediately after access of the citizen. However, in the absence of a lawyer of reliable information it is necessary to reschedule your appointment to a later, and to seriously consider the issue. As alternative way you can suggest to seek the advice of K. similar to my colleague specializing in this area. It is forbidden to give incomplete, vague and even more incorrect answers to the questions constituting the subject matter of the consultation.
Form of consultations (written or oral) must not affect its quality. If the visitor is not aware of what advice and help can be provided both orally and in writing, in the beginning of the conversation should explain to him the situation.
Requirements that apply to documents prepared by the lawyer, their legal nature. This means that the documents should contain a request (or requirement) on the commencement, change or termination of legal relations.
The statement is a document which contains a valid request to initiate relationships. Such a request must be specific, addressed to the proper recipient and signed by the applicant.
The complaint is a document addressed to a higher authority or more senior official, requesting to modify or cancel the decision to ban or to recognize the illegal actions (inaction) of the authority (officials), which brought the complaint.
The petition represents the end, the most complete realization of their rights or submitted a request for action, decision-making or their refusal to do so, addressed to the body or official with appropriate authority.
Powers of attorney must be confirmed by relevant documents.
In civil proceedings the lawyer is involved as a representative of the Trustee and has duly executed powers of doing business.
The lawyer may act in arbitration proceedings as a representative of the citizen, including the individual entrepreneur, and as representatives of the organization.
In criminal proceedings the lawyer can act on the side of both the prosecution and defense. The defense attorney may have the authority of the defender, ie, persons engaged in accordance with the law of protection of rights and legitimate interests of suspects and defendants and providing them with legal assistance during criminal proceedings. An advocate is entitled to act as representative of the civil defendant.
Lawyer as a representative of the principal may participate in the proceedings in the arbitration court.
Powers of attorney should be confirmed by power of attorney. In the enforcement proceedings, the lawyer has the right to perform on behalf of represented all action related to enforcement proceedings, however, these actions should be specifically described in the power of attorney issued by the represented, in particular: presentation and review of the Executive document; the transfer of authority to another person (assignment); appeal of actions of judicial police officer-executor; receipt of awarded property.
A lawyer can provide legal assistance to minors in respect of which marks the penalty of deprivation of liberty.
The legal assistance attorney may be the provision of other legal services. Other types of legal assistance include, for example, assistance in criminal matters, namely, using lawyer tactics of protection, the choice of means and methods of protection of rights and legitimate interests of the suspect (accused), assistance in the drafting of civil law contracts drawn up in simple written form, etc.
Legal assistance on the territory of the Russian Federation lawyers of a foreign state may take place in cases where at least one party to the dispute is a legal or natural person (who was) in the legal relations that are regulated (governed) by the law of a foreign state.