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- Title
Court DispositionTime in Brazil and in European Countries.
- Authors
Castelliano, Caio; Guimaraes, Tomas Aquino
- Abstract
The length of judicial proceedings is an important subject on the agenda of social researchers, policy-makers, politicians, legal practitioners, and court administrators in several countries. Whether the court disposition time in a country is reasonable or not is a matter of debate. Brazilian courts are usually perceived to be slow. This study investigates whether court delay is a real problem or merely a perception. The duration of civil cases in Brazil is measured by international standards and then compared to those in European courts. The disposition time in Brazilian firstinstance courts takes 600 days, almost three times longer than the European average (232 days). In Brazilian second-instance courts, it takes 320 days, 50% longer than in Europe (215 days). However, the number of cases decided in those courts exceeds the number of new incoming cases, which means that the backlog and the disposition time in Brazilian courts are decreasing. These data are discussed in this paper and a research agenda and management recommendations are proposed later on this document.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; CIVIL procedure; COURTS; RESEARCH personnel; COUNTRIES; POLITICIANS; STANDARDS
- Publication
Revista Direito GV, 2023, Vol 19, p1
- ISSN
1808-2432
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/2317-6172202302