A defensoria pública como instituição vocacionada aos meios democráticos de solução de conflitos

Abstract

The democratic ways of conflicts resolution represent alternatives to the crisis of the Judiciary, which is manifested by the inefficiency and high costs for the parties, as well as by the difficulty of access to the poor. Through mediation and conciliation, it is pointed out new ways of facing this conflict, in which the parties themselves are holders of the procedure in order to solve their questions. As institution dedicated to lead this process, emerges the Public Defensory. In favor of this finding militates various arguments, which in this article are grouped under the following headings: the legal argument, the proximity of the public defenders with the problems of the community, the high costs of the private mediation / conciliation proceedings and the possibility of expanding the horizons of procedures through the technical performance of public defenders. To meet this vocation, it is important that the institutional progress made by the Public Defensory in the constitutional field are effectivated in the fact world.