ABSTRACT
Traditionally the need for legal aid is connected with corresponding participation of persons in criminal and procedural criminal relations. In Russia the creation of the legal profession jury under the Judicial Charter of 1864 can be considered the beginning of professional rendering of legal aid. The right to legal aid relates to remedial guarantees of civil rights and freedoms. The right to legal aid guarantees realization and protection of all other rights and freedoms of a person and a citizen. Occurrence of legal aid is inseparably linked with occurrence of the right and formation of the state. Functioning of legal profession as an independent institution of a civil society is a way of realization of the human right to legal aid. As a subspecies of the right to reception of legal aid the right to explanation of the content of legal provisions acts. It can be classified as official, informal and normative and casual interpretation.
