The legal assistance in the administrative procedure

Abstract

The present paper has for object to study legal assistance in the administrative procedure. It examines if legal advice in administrative proceedings is a constitutional right, and their relationship with the right to legal aid. It below examines legal assistance in Law 30/1992, which regulates in general the right to consultant, analyzing case law on the matter. Subsequently it examines specific rules, which expressly provides for the involvement of certain individuals to facilitate the right to defense. It also studies the rules that include a right to free assistance in administrative procedures.