Free Legal Assistance

Free Legal Aid provides you with the means to defend your rights in court if you do not have the financial resources to litigate, or regardless of your economic situation, if the processes in which you need a defense or your personal circumstances so determine.

Specifically, you have the right to free legal aid, whatever your financial circumstances, if you are a victim of gender violence, in those processes that are linked, derive or are a consequence of your condition as a victim.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Information from the Free Legal Aid Commission

Face-to-face attention of the Free Legal Assistance Commission of the Community of Madrid, from Monday to Friday, from 9.00:14.00 a.m. to XNUMX:XNUMX p.m., BY APPOINTMENT by calling 012.

We will not be able to serve you without an appointment, but we will try to resolve your query by phone, as far as possible.

Request more information by calling 012

Presentation of documentation before the Free Legal Assistance Commission

The commission does not have a Record of presentation of documentation:

They must present writings, possible challenges or provide documents through the official channels established for this purpose:

In any official registry of the Public Administrations. http://comunidad.madrid/servicios/informacion-atencion-ciudadano/cita-previa-oficinas-registro-atencion-ciudadano
By administrative mail at any post office.
If you have a digital certificate, through the electronic registry of the Community of Madrid. There is a manual in the link: access here.

You can also send the documentation by regular mail addressed to the Free Legal Assistance Commission:

Shipping postal address, Avda. General Perón, 38, 2ª Planta 28020 Madrid.

Sending documentation in case of urgency:

Only in this case can you use the fax number 91 720 93 44.

We remind you that if you are a lawyer or solicitor:

You must use electronic means for any administrative procedure in accordance with art. 14.2 of Law 39/2015, of October 1, on the Common Administrative Procedure of Public Administrations.

Check requirements

Here you can check the requirements you must meet to request free legal assistance. For more information access the frequently asked questions.

Check requirements

Check if I am entitled

This economic simulator lets you know for guidance if your right is going to be recognized or if, on the contrary, it is going to be denied.

Check if I am entitled

submit my application

Accessing here you will be able to know how and where to request free justice, the documentation you need to provide and it will allow you to download the application form.

File a submission

Check the status of my application

If you are in possession of the electronic DNI or have one of the electronic certificates recognized by the Community of Madrid, here you can check the status of processing your request for free justice.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Answer to the most frequent doubts

FAQs

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General Information

The Spanish Constitution, in its article 119, establishes that justice will be free for those who prove insufficient resources to litigate.
Any citizen who meets the requirements may request, under the terms established by current regulations, free legal assistance in legal proceedings in which they are interested.

The system regulated by Free Legal Assistance Law It makes it possible for the most unprotected citizens to obtain the necessary professionals and see their rights and legitimate interests adequately defended.

La Free Legal Assistance Commission is the collegiate body of the Community of Madrid that recognizes the right to free legal assistance.

In turn, they are available to citizens Legal Guidance Services of the Illustrious Bar Associations of Madrid and Alcalá de Henares that provide advice to people interested in requesting Free Legal Assistance.

Obtaining the right allows the citizen to enjoy at no cost a lawyer, solicitor, and other professionals who must intervene in the procedure, as well as the absence of other economic costs such as the required notarial expenses, the free insertion of advertisements or edicts in official newspapers, free expert assistance, exemption from the payment of deposits necessary for the filing of appeals... This situation of absence of costs will extend to the execution of the sentence and the hearing of the litigation in second instance by another Court, provided that it is the same procedure.

Processing

Initiation of the procedure

The procedure to recognize the right to free legal aid will start at application of interested person, by submitting the application in the Legal Guidance Services of the respective Bar Association or before the Court or the Dean of Courts of the judicial district corresponding to the domicile of the applicant.

Processing Phase

► Correction of deficiencies

The Legal Orientation Services will examine the documentation presented and, if they find that it is insufficient or that there are deficiencies in the application, the respective Bar Association will contact the applicant so that it can be corrected within a period of 10 days, otherwise the request will be archived

► Provisional appointment of lawyer and solicitor

If it is deduced from the documentation that the applicant meets the requirements, the provisional appointment of a lawyer and, where appropriate, a solicitor will be made.
This designation is provisional since it must be confirmed by the Free Legal Assistance Commission to be final.

Decision

The Commission will dictate resolution definitively recognizing or denying the right to free legal assistance.

The resolutions of the Free Legal Assistance Commission are they will notify the applicant, the Judicial Body, the Bar Association and, where appropriate, the Bar Association.

In the event that free legal assistance is recognized, you are entitled to all the benefits set forth in article 6 of Law 1/1996, of January 10, including free defense and representation by a lawyer and solicitor in the established terms. in said precept. However, it will be necessary to take into account the provisions of sections 2 and 3 of article 36 of the aforementioned Law in relation to the payment of costs.

Challenge of the resolution

resolutions of the Free Legal Assistance Commission that recognize, deny or revoke the right to free legal assistance may be challenged within 10 days business by those who are holders of a right or legitimate interest.

The challenge brief (which does not have to obey any pre-established model) must be submitted to the Commission, which will send it to the competent Court, which will be the one to resolve it.

Against the Order issued by the Judge there is no recourse.

Written challenge model pdf

Revocation of the resolution

The Commission can "revoke" the recognition of the right to free legal assistance if it finds that the applicant has falsified or hidden data that has been decisive for the recognition of the right.

In the event that the granted right is revoked, the beneficiary of legal aid is obliged to payment of fees and economic rights accrued by professionals appointed ex officio.

Regulation

The procedure for the recognition of the right to free legal assistance is regulated in the Law 1/1996, of January 10, on Free Legal Assistance and in the Decree 86/2003, of June 19, which regulates Free Legal Assistance in the Community of Madrid, modified by the Decree 146/2018, of October 2.

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