O papel da defensoria pública na prestação da assistência jurídica

Abstract

The constitutional duty of the State to provide legal assistance to the vulnerable and vulnerable is evidenced by the creation of bodies responsible for providing such service, the professional practice of lawyers and, as such, must be paid for, and sponsored by the public coffers. Principles of equality, parity of arms and broad access to justice. It is true that the 1988 Federal Constitution, as a charter of principles inaugurates a new time in the country's democracy, has brought a range of protections to the citizen and one of them is Corollary of the broad access it intended to give to the Judiciary: free legal assistance to be implemented by Public Defender Offices, bodies endowed with a structure to defend the rights of Brazilian citizens and whose performance is not always valued and recognized. Thus, this work had as general objective: to understand the Public Defender's office as a state body responsible for obtaining legal assistance to those in need. And the specific objectives: to verify the relationship between the constitutional guarantee of access to justice and the activities carried out by it; To recognize the historical evolution of the Public Defender's Office and the legislation pertinent to its action in the Jurisdiction and to analyze the effectiveness of the actions developed by the Defensoria and its importance for Brazilian society. The methodology brings together the deductive, bibliographic and historical-evolutionary methods, with the indirect documentation technique. It is perceived that the Public Defender's Office is fundamental in the corrective scope of this disparity: many losing their rights and few of them enjoying a merely unequal sieve, the economic-financial. It is the one that provides free legal assistance to the most needy, seeking to implement the constitutional principle of equality, since access to the just legal order is universal for all, regardless of any labeling, free of exclusivist considerations that condition creed, sex, ideology or social class.