A Defensoria Pública da União (DPU) e o Acesso à Justiça:

uma breve análise do programa itinerante “A Defensoria vai aonde o povo pobre está” na mesorregião Sul Fluminense

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyze the offer of free legal aid in the Mesoregion Sul Fluminense, located in the state of Rio de Janeiro, by the Defensoria Pública da União (DPU). Initially, with the historical methodology, based on the work "Access to Justice" by Mauro Cappelletti and Bryant Garth, and later deductive, with the study of the laws of the Brazilian legal system on the accessibility of justice, being applied to the aforementioned region. Thus, there is the exposition of laws, bibliographies and official internal documents of the referred body to demonstrate the performance of the DPU in this mesoregion. As a result, the positive impact on access to justice for all towns and communities belonging to that locality can be addressed through the inclusion program called “The Defensoria Goes Where the Poor People Are”. Headquartered and chaired in Volta Redonda, this itinerant action benefits, through legal aid, numerous social groups, including the collectors of recyclable materials that make up the mesoregion. Incorporating, therefore, the vision of the first renewing wave of access to justice, defended by Cappelletti and Garth, to the reality of Mesoregion Sul Fluminense by bringing information and legal aid to vulnerable citizens.