O acesso à justiça e a defensoria pública da união no Ceará

Abstract

This paper's goal is to emphasize the importance of an effective access to justice in consolidating the established rights, and to highlight the essentiality of performance and strengthening of the Public Defender’s Office to achieve this access for economically scarce population. In this context, through a field survey carried out in the Union’s Public Defender of Ceará, it has been attempted to picture the way the Public Defender’s Office, as an essential institution to the jurisdictional function of the State (under Article 134 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Brazil, from 1988) has worked, and also to discover what were its significant historical developments, and what are the weaknesses and problems that still must be overcome, in order to truly accomplish access to justice in the Brazilian society, in all facets that such expression encompasses.