The Incident of Repetitive Demands Resolution in the Small Claims Courts System

• Grant number: 18/10809-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: February 01, 2019
• End date: December 31, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Law - Public Law
• Principal Investigator: Camilo Zufelato
• Grantee: Gustavo Tavares de Oliveira Borges
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Direito de Ribeirão Preto (FDRP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Ribeirão Preto , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The research claims to make an analysis about the Incidente de Resolução de Demandas Repetitivas - IRDR (Incident of Repetitive Demands' Resolution) manifestations in the Juizados Especiais' System (Small Claims Courts' System), in special about the incidents raised in Juizados Especiais' proceedings and the application of the fixed thesis in these proceedings. The study begins with the relation between the civil procedural law institute and the jurisprudence understanding about the autonomy of the Juizados Especiais. Being an autonomous system, without submission to the Tribunais de Justiça and the Tribunais Regionais Federais, jurisprudential and doctrine divergences emerges about the IRDR application for the Juizados Especiais' system.While the Juizados Especiais' jurisdiction is understanding as an autonomous part of the Brazilian Justice, the art. 985, I, of the Código de Processo Civil, that define the compulsory application of the thesis fixed by Tribunal de Justiça and the Tribunal Regional Federal to the decisions uttered in the Juizados Especiais, it is constituted improper interference between that two sides of brazilian justice system. In the same way, are the interpretation about the art. 978, parágrafo único, of the Código de Processo Civil, stablishing the existence of a process waiting to be judged in the Tribunal as an exigency for the incident admission, and the understanding about the IRDR raising from the Juizados Especiais' proceedings. However, deny the IRDR application in the Juizados Especiais may produce divergent decisions for the Brazilian Judiciary. Considering it, this research will make an analysis about the nexus between IRDR and the Juizados Especiais' System.