THE PERFORMANCE OF BRAZILIAN JUSTICE SYSTEM DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: IMPACTS AND INNOVATIONS

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic caused considerable impacts on all sectors of society, including health, education, economics, among others. The need for social distance in order to reduce the speed of the spread of the virus meant that the judicial systems of the world had to readjust to the new demands, while remaining the services of access to justice that are the citizens’ right. In view of this new global reality, this study was developed with the objective of verifying changes in the performance of the Brazilian judicial system in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. A literature review was carried out based on national and international studies. Only articles published in the period from 2016 to 2021 were considered eligible. In a society in which information and technologies are part of the daily lives of people, companies, governments, in short, the entire society, the Judiciary cannot fail to adhere to its use, as these technologies represent advancement, guarantee of access even in situations of risk to health, agility, economy and accessibility for all. In Brazil, innovations were slowly being incorporated and in the face of the pandemic they had to happen suddenly, bringing as a disadvantage the lack of preparation of many servers for its use, however, this does not prevent positive results from being achieved.