Recently, the Ministry of justice and the Central Civilization Office jointly issued the measures for the administration of legal aid volunteers (hereinafter referred to as the measures), which stipulates the service principles and scope, application conditions, rights and obligations and service management of legal aid volunteers. What is the significance of the introduction of the measures? What are the highlights of the content? People's network invited experts to interpret. The measures implement the spirit and requirements of laws and regulations such as the law of the people's Republic of China on legal aid and the regulations on voluntary service, and standardize the voluntary service of legal aid in China for the first time. Li Honglei, deputy director and researcher of the Institute of law of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said in an interview with people.com that the promulgation of the measures is a specific measure to implement the provisions of the legal aid law on encouraging and standardizing social forces to participate in voluntary services of legal aid, which is conducive to expanding the supply of legal aid and promoting the equalization of legal aid services, It is of great significance to better meet the growing needs of the people for legal aid in the new era and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of people in difficulties. The Measures specify that legal aid volunteers refer to citizens who use their professional knowledge and skills to provide legal aid and related services free of charge according to the arrangements of legal aid institutions and other units. Li Honglei believes that volunteers should have the spirit of dedication, love the cause of legal aid and voluntary service, and there should be no violation of discipline and law. Volunteers shall provide legal aid services to recipients through agreements, and shall fulfill agreements or commitments in the spirit of good faith. They shall not engage in profit-making activities in the name of legal aid volunteers, nor collect property or accept other benefits from recipients. The Measures specify the main responsibilities of relevant departments in the management of legal aid voluntary services. As recruitment units, legal aid institutions and their entrusted institutions, social organizations and mass organizations undertake the responsibilities of recruiting, reviewing, guiding, supervising and assessing volunteers, providing necessary help and paying relevant expenses. Li Honglei suggested that judicial administrative organs at all levels should earnestly perform their duties of supervision and coordination, establish and improve various incentive, cooperation and publicity mechanisms, strengthen the cooperation among relevant departments, and actively guide social forces to participate in the voluntary service of legal aid. "In addition to general litigation services, the measures emphasize the provision of barrier free services such as foreign languages, minority languages, Braille and sign language translation, and include psychological counseling services in the scope of assistance." Li Honglei further explained that this will help alleviate and eliminate the spiritual damage and anxiety suffered by the recipients, promote the legal and smooth settlement of disputes, and make the recipients truly feel fairness and justice. The measures have established an incentive and guarantee mechanism for legal aid volunteers. Li Honglei introduced that legal aid service is a relatively complex work, and volunteers need to invest a lot of time and energy. The measures specially set up a chapter on "incentive guarantee", which provides all-round material guarantee and spiritual incentive for volunteers and their service activities from the aspects of direct expense payment, personal rights protection, policy preferential treatment and supporting mechanisms, and helps to ensure the sound development of legal aid voluntary service. (outlook new era)