Acesso à justiça: estudo de três juizados especiais cíveis de São Paulo

Currently, in Brazil, the Small Claims Courts are the main experience of effectiveness in access to justice. They are state judiciary institutions that offer low costs and easy access to the citizens for the solution of their conflicts and guarantee of their rights. Researches and surveys on this model's performance indicate that there is an increasing presence of demands from consumers against private agents that render public services, instead of other daily conflicts. The present study analyzes the types of plaintiffs, defendants and judicial actions in three Small Claims Courts located in regions of different social-economic profiles in São Paulo City. The aim is to verify the presence of this type of litigation and the hypothesis whether these Courts had become in fact a " claims counter" against private agents that render public services.