Jusletter IT

An overview on the computerization and evaluation of Brazilian Judicial System

  • Authors: Cesar Antonio Serbena / Mauricio Dalri Timm do Valle
  • Category: Articles
  • Region: Brazil
  • Field of law: E-Justice
  • Collection: Tagungsband IRIS 2014
  • Citation: Cesar Antonio Serbena / Mauricio Dalri Timm do Valle, An overview on the computerization and evaluation of Brazilian Judicial System, in: Jusletter IT 20 February 2014
Actually the Brazilian judicial system is going through a period of rapid transformation. The state courts and the superior and federal courts have partially or fully computerized their judicial procedures. This is called electronic Justice or E-Justice. Concomitantly with this process of computerization, there was the establishment of a system of data collection and statistical analysis of the judiciary, as well as an evaluation system of its performance through specific indices. This system can be called quantitative Justice or Q-Justice. In this paper, we analyze the actual state of art of E-Justice and Q-Justice in Brazil, i.e., we describe the main systems of data collection of the Brazilian Judiciary, we indicate some methodological remarks on publishing on web the public data and on statistical research with judicial data, and point out the future prospects of the E-Justice and judicial metrics toward new computing technologies. The main objective of this paper is to describe, to an international audience, the recent Brazilian experience of judicial reform with the adoption of a strong policy of judicial computerization and creation of a system of judicial statistics and judicial evaluation.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Brazil: some basic judicial data and expenditures of the Brazilian judiciary
  • 2.1. Humans resources
  • 2.2. Magistrates and work force per hundred thousand inhabitants
  • 2.3. Litigation
  • 2.3.1. General case flow data
  • 2.3.2. Incoming cases per one hundred thousand inhabitants
  • 2.3.3. 1st Instance Litigations and Small claims courts
  • 2.3.4. Incoming cases per magistrate and civil servants working in the judiciary area per magistrate in 1st Instance Courts and in Small claims courts
  • 2.3.5. Caseload and backlog rates in First Instance and Small Claims Courts
  • 3. Eletronic lawsuit filing
  • 4. The PJe (Electronic Judicial Process) and the computerization of courts in Brazil
  • 5. The actual situation of Q-Justice in Brazil
  • 5.1. CNJ
  • 5.2. The Supreme Court in Numbers project
  • 6. Some methodological bases for Q-Justice in Brazil
  • 7. Conclusion: remarks about E-Justice and Q-Justice in Brazil
  • 8. References

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