Chương II Luật trợ giúp pháp lý 2006: Người được trợ giúp pháp lý

Chapter II

LEGAL AID BENEFICIARIES

Article 10.- Legal aid beneficiaries

1. Poor people;

2. People with meritorious services to the revolution.

3. Lonely elderly people, disabled people and helpless children.

4. Ethnic minority people permanently residing in areas with exceptionally difficult socio-economic conditions.

Article 11.- Rights of legal aid beneficiaries

1. To request legal aid by themselves or via their relatives or representatives.

2. To select legal aid-providing persons; to request the replacement of legal aid-providing persons who fall into one of the cases defined in Clause 2, Article 45 of this Law.

3. To modify or withdraw legal aid requests.

4. To request confidentiality of contents of legal aid cases.

5. To be entitled to damages in accordance with law.

6. To lodge complaints or denunciations about legal aid.

Article 12.- Obligations of legal aid beneficiaries

1. To supply papers proving their eligibility for legal aid.

2. To supply information and documents related to legal aid cases and be accountable for the accuracy of these information and documents.

3. To respect legal aid-providing organizations, legal aid-providing persons and other agencies, organizations and individuals engaged in legal aid services.

4. Not to request a legal aid-providing organization to provide legal aid for the case for which another legal aid-providing organization is providing legal aid.

5. To abide by the law on legal aid and internal rules of places of legal aid provision.