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Offline M.Capestro

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What does any body know about the record of Cezar Peluso?
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Plenary parting of the chairmanship of Minister Gilmar Mendes front of the STF and the CNJ
STF News Print Thursday, April 22, 2010

In closing the session this Thursday (22), the Minister Gilmar Mendes took leave of the presidencies of the Supreme Court and the National Council of Justice, positions held by him in the last two years. The next administration, the Minister Cezar Peluso, will start tomorrow.

Mendes mentioned that the years of his administration were "long and well lived," and cited that there is a great effort to modernize the judiciary is the Supreme, either in the CNJ. "There are many challenges for a company that develops, a country that grows. We have to make this great effort of modernization and the judiciary is perhaps one of the engines of this transformation, "he said.

He highlighted how the Brazilian society depends Justice. He said in 2008 pushed through by the Brazilian justice processes 70 million and it is estimated that last year the number has reached the mark of 80 million cases. A linear slope, one could say that every family have a demand in court. The minister exemplified the overload of special courts citing the federal courts, created in 2002, has more than 2.5 million cases on social assistance benefits and pensions.

When talking about the CNJ, the minister highlighted the development, with the Ministry of Justice and the Public Ministry, the National Strategy for Public Safety.

In farewell, Mendes said he was certain that the next president, the minister Cezar Peluso, you can go further in consolidating the judiciary as essential to the service court. Finally, let a special thanks to the servers of the two bodies by the solidarity that went beyond the functional duties. "Without a doubt we have a picture copy of qualified servers, dedicated and honoring the Brazilian public service."


Offline André Felipe

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Peluso and Mendes share the same ideas in many issues, I would say his administration will be "more of the same", a continuation of Mendes'. But I don't know what he thinks about Hague and Goldman's case. He agrees with Mendes in a lot of things, peharps including Hague.