O papel dos juizados especiais cíveis no estado do Espírito Santo e a eficácia da prestação jurisdicional

Abstract

The access to justice is a constitucional garantee conected to the dignity of the human being, praised by the Federal Constitution in its art. 1st. The procedural reformulation and the necessity of a faster judicials procedures brought, in 1988, through the Constitution, the obligation to create Civil and Criminal Special Courts by the Union (Federal), Federal District and States which are competents for judgement of small civil claims and criminals infrations, observating the oral and summary procedures bringing new modifications in the process and appealing system. The creation of the Special Courts in the Espírito Santo State followed the constitucional rule and nowadays it has civil and criminal courts. The number of lawsuits by the procedure of 9.099/95 law is expressive in relation to the ordinaries or specials legal proceedings. The main purpose in this work is to investigate if the edition of the 9.099/95 law is a predominant factor in the conquest of an effective and ample access to justice. It searchs if the constitucional principles that constitute the judiciary system are reals to the citizen, in special the respect to the human dignity and the access to justice. By a research, it studies the fundamentals garantess and the access to justice and to the judiciary power as well as the principles that guide the special legal proceedings. To know the “impediments” and the causes that makes difficult the regular progress of the legal proceedings, a research has been done orientated by a professional (statistic) questioning if the judges apply the principles of this new procedure and if they work for an effective and simplifiled proceeding. The access to the Judiciary Power is difficultated to many citizens by several situations. It is demonstrated which are the most commons difficulties and also in the end of this work the proposals to overcome some of this “impediments”. During this research it is intented to explain the main pecularities of the system in special the jugde’s capacity to absorb and to apply the differents principles during the legal proceedings. Also it is intented to explain the necessaries mechanism to the legal proceedings well progress and its duration emphasizing beyond the constitutionals principles which form and instruct the Specials Courst but the effectiviness of the 9.099/05 law, the consequent and inevitable access to justice, showing, moreover, how the jugde’s action in this system can be seen as a matter of positive reference and integration before a constant changing of the socials circumstances, bringing a new idea about 9 the utility and real function of the Judiciary Power and in special the effectiviness of the access to justice.