Os efeitos da pandemia do COVID-19 na produtividade do 8º Juizado Especial Cívil de Maceió-AL e na eficácia de suas audiências de conciliação

Abstract

Since the present research is justified based on the scenario caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in the legal environment, seeking to evaluate the performance of the judiciary, more specifically of the 8th Special Civil Court of Maceió-AL (8th JECC), making the study contributes to a real reflection in the face of the verification of advances and setbacks based on the analysis of statistical data, in this way, research is carried out on the Covid-19 Pandemic and its effects on the effectiveness of the Conciliation Hearing and on the productivity of the 8th JECC, in order to seek to compare the performance of the 8th JECC before and after the Covid-19 Pandemic, as well as its effects on the effectiveness of the Conciliation Hearing. To this end, it is necessary to report on the procedure of activities in the Special Courts, including how their Conciliation Hearings are carried out, as well as briefly describe the event of the COVID-19 pandemic, develop a survey at the 8th JECC to identify data about its productivity and the achievement of agreements in the Conciliation Hearings in the pandemic period and in the period before it, and to analyze how the COVID-19 pandemic interfered in the functioning of the activities of the 8th JECC, in order to examine the number of agreements and cases judged in both years prior to the pandemic, that is, 2018 and 2019, and compare with the numbers of cases judged in the pandemic period, specifically 2020 and 2021, in order to obtain conclusions about the effects, whether positive or negative, caused by this state of global calamity in the resolution of procedural conflicts judged by the 8th Court. A descriptive and exploratory research is then carried out, as it aims to achieve greater proximity to the proposed theme. In view of this, it appears that the objectives developed in the three chapters were achieved, the hypothesis was confirmed in part mainly due to the finding that the Covid-19 Pandemic was not at all harmful to the judiciary because it was due to this adversity that the The judiciary found new ways to provide service to society and reinvented itself by using new tools and achieved significant advances.