Citizenship access to justice: An experience of the itinerant civil special refereed from Florianopolis

Abstract

The present paper analyzes the performance of the Itinerant Civil Special Court project, developed in Florianópolis in the period of April to November of 2003, by the Local State Judiciary Power. It is pointed out that the Itinerant Civil Special Court is based on the attempt of making conditions of citizenship exercise and the participation of the community in the resolution of its conflicts. Besides that, it also intends the decentralization and the intent of making the access to justice universal, pulling together the Judiciary Power and the community. For the thematic contextualization, was intended to establish the present concept of citizenship, the access to justice and roll of the Judiciary Power, to finally describe the structure of Itinerant Court and demonstrate its statistics data and activity developed. To conclude this paper a bibliography research was made, with direct documental research and statistic data supplied by the special Court and interviews with users and collaborators of the project.