Court of Justice of São Paulo
Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo
Established3 February 1874 (1874-02-03)
JurisdictionSão Paulo
Authorized by1989 State Constitution of São Paulo
Appeals toSuperior Court of Justice
Websitewww.tjsp.jus.br
President
CurrentlyRicardo Mair Anafe
Since7 January 2022

The Court of Justice of São Paulo (Portuguese: Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo) is the judicial branch of the Government of São Paulo. Its head office is in the capital and it has jurisdiction across the state.

It is constituted of 56 Judiciary Districts and has 360 desembargadores, considered the largest court in the world.[1][2] It includes substitute judges of second degree and summoned judges, 729 in total. In January 2009, the quantity of cases in progress reached 18.21 million.[3]

The president elect for the 2022/2023 biennium is desembargador Ricardo Mair Anafe.[4]

Assignments

The Court of Justice of São Paulo is the head of the Judiciary. It considers the final appeals of sentences given in the state districts. Its assignments are defined by Article 74 of the state constitution.

  • Prosecute and judge originally:
  1. in common criminal offenses: the Vice-Governor, the State Secretaries, the State Deputies, the Prosecutor-General of Justice, the Attorney-General of the State, the Public Defender-General and the Mayors.
  2. in common criminal offenses and responsibility crimes: the judges of the Military Justice Court, the Judges of Law and Judges of Military Law (first instance), the members of the Public Prosecutor's Office (except the Prosecutor-General of Justice), the Delegate-General of the Civil Police and the Commanders of the Military Police of the State of São Paulo and of the Military Firefighters Corps of the State of São Paulo.
  3. the writs of security and the habeas data against the Governor's acts, of the Board and Presidency of the Legislative Assembly, the Court itself or any of its members, the Presidents of the State and City Court of Accounts, the Prosecutor-General of Justice, the Mayor and the President of the Municipal Chamber of São Paulo.
  4. the habeas corpus in the cases which appeals are from within its competence or when the coercion or patient is an authority directly subject to its jurisdiction, except for the jurisdiction of the Military Justice Court, in cases which appeals are from its jurisdiction.
  5. the writs of injunction, when the inexistence of a state of municipal regulatory rule, from any of the Powers, include from indirect administration, becomes impossible the exercise of rights secured in this Constitution.
  6. the representation of unconstitutionality of the law or state or municipal normative act, contested before the State Constitution, the request of intervention in the cities and acts of unconstitutionality by omissão, in view of the precept in the State Constitution.
  7. the rescission acts of its judged and criminal appeals of cases in its jurisdiction.
  8. the attribution conflicts between the administrative and judiciary authorities of the state.
  9. the complaint for the guarantee of authority of its decision.
  10. the representation of unconstitutionality of law or municipal normative act, contested before the Federal Constitution.
  • Invoke the intervention of the Union in the state to guarantee the free exercise of the Judiciary, in the terms of the State and Federal Constitutions.
  • Request the intervention of the state in a city, according to terms provided by law.

Directors

  • Ricardo Mair Anafe - President
  • Guilherme Gonçalves Strenger - Vice-President
  • Fernando Antonio Torres Garcia - Inspector-General
  • Artur César Beretta da Silveira - President of the Private Law Section
  • Wanderley José Federighi - President of Public Law Section
  • Francisco José Galvão Bruno - President of Criminal Law Section
  • José Carlos Gonçalves Xavier de Aquino - Dean

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Quem Somos" (in Portuguese). Tribunal de Justiça do Estado de São Paulo. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  2. ↑ "Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo completa 140 anos" (in Portuguese). ConJur. 3 February 2014. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  3. ↑ "Judiciário de SP tem mais de 18 milhões de ações" (in Portuguese). ConJur. 5 March 2009. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  4. ↑ Viapiana, Tábata (10 November 2021). "Desembargador Ricardo Anafe é eleito o novo presidente do TJ-SP" (in Portuguese). ConJur. Retrieved 7 January 2022.


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