Free expert assistance. Beneficiaries of legal aid.
Free expert assistance. Beneficiaries of legal aid.
One of the benefits of the right to free legal aid is free expert witness in the process by technical staff attached to the courts, or, failing that, by officials, bodies or technical services dependent on the public administrations.
Exceptionally, and when, due to the lack of technicians in the field in question, it is not possible to provide expert assistance from experts dependent on the courts or public administrations, this will be carried out, if the judge or the court deems it appropriate, in a reasoned decision, by experts appointed in accordance with the provisions of the procedural laws. among the corresponding private technicians.
The judge or court may agree in a reasoned decision that free specialised expert assistance shall be provided by private technical professionals when it is to be provided to minors and persons with mental disabilities who are victims of abuse or ill-treatment, taking into account the circumstances of the case and the best interests of the minor or person with disabilities. it can be provided immediately.
General information
- Regional ministry
- Consejeria De Presidencia, Justicia, Seguridad Y Simplificacion Adtva.
- Governing board
- Direc. General De Justicia Y Victimas Del Terrorismo (DIR3: A06004049)
- Classification
- Benefits
- Subject(s)
- Justice
- Starting way
- Ex officio
- Target
- Citizens
- Legal entities, self-employed persons and registered professionals
- Subject to fees
- No
- Languages in which the procedure can be completed
- Spanish
- Allow power of attorney
- Yes
- Links to web pages with specific information
- Type
No links are included
Requirements
- Be a beneficiary of free legal aid, but the request is made by the court, once the requested request has been admitted for processing.
Deadlines and submission
- Deadline for submission
It doesn't have.
- Submission deadline start date
- -
- Submission deadline end date
- -
- Periodicity
- Continuous
- Means of submission
- Telematic
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- Online submission
- At the General Electronic Registry
- This procedure admits electronic submission in its specific application
- Art. 14. 2 of the Law 39/2015, of 1 October, of the Common Administrative Procedure of the Public Administrations, establishes the obligatory nature of the electronic management for certain subjects as, for example, a) The juridical persons, b) Entities without legal personality, c) Those who carry out a professional activity for which compulsory membership is required, for the procedures and actions they carry out with the Public Administrations in the exercise of said professional activity. In any case, within this group, notaries and property and mercantile registrars shall be included. d) Those who represent an interested party who is obliged to relate electronically with the Administration, e) The employees of the Public Administrations for the procedures and actions that they carry out with them due to their condition of public employee, in the form in which it is determined by regulation by each Administration.
Required documentation
- It is not necessary to provide documentation
Processing and resolution
- Instructor board
- Directorate-General for Justice.
- Attributive rule
Law 1/1996 of 10 January 1996 on free legal aid.
- Reports or opinions
- No reports or opinions are required
- Resolution entity
- The head of the Directorate-General for Justice.
- Attributive rule
Decree 86/2008, of 11 September, on free legal aid.
- Maximum deadline for decision
- 1 Months
- Average deadline for decision
- 1 Months
- Effects of the administrative silence or inactivity of the Administration
- Initiation ex officio:
- Positive
- Does it put an end to the administrative procedure?
- No
Appeals
- Type
In the event that the payment of the invoice is declared inadmissible, appeal against the head of the department with competence in matters of justice.
- Board
Head of the departments with competences in matters of justice.
- Deadline
- 1 month.
Regulations
- Regulation applied
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- Decree 26/2023, of 27 April, on free legal aid in the Autonomous Community of Cantabria.
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- Law 1/1996 of 10 January 1996 on free legal aid.
Do you need help?
The 012 General Telephone Information Service will be available 24 hours a day, every day of the year, according to the following timetable:
- Personal telephone attention by means of information agents, from 9:00 to 21:00 hours from Monday to Friday, excluding public holidays.
Mechanised attention, via voicemail, during other hours and on public holidays. - Incoming calls to the mailbox will be recorded and then, from the General Information Telephone 012, a response call will be made to the citizen to resolve his or her request for information.
- For telephone calls from outside the Autonomous Community of Cantabria you can dial 942 395 563 (from abroad +34 942 395 563); if you are calling from Cantabria, you can dial 942 395 562.
- This service is only available in Spanish.