In 2015, a new Civil Procedure Code was approved by the National Congress. In the
same year, projects aimed at modifying such code were presented, even before it
began, in points highly criticized by the national magistracy. The subsequent
approval of these changes was accompanied by news reports on the participation of
associations of judges and official bodies, such as the Federal Supreme Court and
the Superior Court of Justice. Since then, starting from the premise that these groups
were acting in the attempt to put pressure on the legislative process, a research was
conducted, in order to, besides confirming this hypothesis, to find out the means and
the arguments pressure. Throughout the research, materials were found that
confirmed the dispatch of letters, participation in public hearings, meetings and trips
to the National Congress by representatives of associations and members of the
Courts already mentioned. On the other hand, the survey pointed to indications that,
even among magistrates ‘and courts’ associations, there were sometimes
divergences of interests, and there was no unanimous positioning of the category, as
initially suggested. In any case, the role of such groups on the legislative process
remained clear, with technical information and data collection as their “main
weapons”. Moreover, it was also evidenced that, due to a probable deficit in
pressure, not all points criticized in general by the magistracy in the new codification
ended up being the object of attempts at modifications, a situation that was, in
practice, “mocked” by when judges apply the law.

Author: Matheus Martins Lacerda
Source: https://guaiaca.ufpel.edu.br/handle/prefix/5275