Atuação da Defensoria Pública do Estado do Maranhão através da conciliação e mediação em tempos de covid-19

Abstract

This research analyses the public defense work in the state of Maranhão at the conciliation and mediation hearings in occurrence of COVID-19’s pandemic situation. That said, we aim to demonstrate the importance of public defense to the society, through constitutional references, fundamental principles of justice access, unity, functional independence and institutional goals. Based on that, we verified alternative ways that are allowed by the legal order to the resolution of that conflicts, that are used as pre-procedural phase that guarantees an alternative and fastest way to reclaim justice, by using conciliation and mediation, motif of this research. In the last part of this research, we identified protocols used during COVID-19’s pandemic, by using data of the public defense of the state of Maranhão, in order to the customer services to continue in progress and the Reconnecting People Program structure as well, launched during pandemic, to guarantee the citizen services through conciliation and mediation hearings in family law. Finally, through statistic data, accurate by graphics and charts, the performance of the public defense os the state of Maranhão was certified, mainly because of the permanency of conciliation and mediation hearings during pandemic. The methodology used is characterized as descriptive and exploratory, with a quantitative approach and the deductive method. In the construction of this research, the bibliographic, documentary and field research method was used.