"NEW NORMAL” FOR THE NEW JUDICIARY? INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN ROBINSON CRUSOE AND THE DIFFERENT LITIGANTS IN THE ACCESS TO JUSTICE DURING (AND AFTER) PANDEMIC

ABSTRACT

This paper searches to confront the main characters of the book Robinson Crusoé, by Daniel Defoe, and the users of the justice system, based on the dilemmas and impositions of the Pandemic of Covid-19, which plagues the whole world. The particularities of the characters Robinson Crusoé and Friday, in view of the need to constantly adapt to new ways of life, were the argument for contextualization, already felt, with the differences between the usual litigants and eventual litigants in the access to justice. The relationship between law and literature, in this case, sought to shed light on aspects related to the need to readjust different litigants for full access to justice, considering the impacts of Pandemic on jurisdictional activity. The scientific method used in the research was the inductive one, by the analysis of the particularities of the characters and the different litigants, as true premises, to determine the different ways of readjusting to the new realities for each one, and what is the impact of these differences on access to justice. So, it was possible to demonstrate that important differences persist between the different litigants in the new jurisdictional reality, urging the adoption of measures that reduce the disparity. © 2022, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. All rights reserved.