The Court of Justice stated that it was the target of “coordinated, irresponsible and defamatory attacks on the national judiciary” after the revelation that.
In a press release released on Friday (31), signed by the president of TJ-SP, Fernando Antonio Torres Garcia, the court stated that “the financial institution that manages the judicial deposits remunerates both the amounts deposited by the parties of the proceedings-which they will be raised by interest and monetary correction – such as the courts. “
Report of Sheet He revealed that, alone last year, the TJ-SP received R $ 2.6 billion from the interest rate interest controlled by the Court.
The money went to the Special Expenses Fund, which, according to the Court’s own report, is used for the payment of “vacation compensation, premium license, aid (food, day care, funeral, health and transportation)” outside the calculation of the constitutional ceiling.
“The Court does not use the amounts of judicial deposits to pay their expenses,” says the note this Friday.
The remuneration made by the bank to the court, according to the note, “in no way harms the holders of the deposits”. “On the contrary, it is used for the benefit of the entire population, through the expansion and improvement of judicial activity, to expand access to justice.”
The report brought the analysis of lawyers, listened to anonymous for fear of reprisals, and researcher Rafael Viegas, professor of FGV, who pointed out there is conflict of interest in the fact that the Court receives interest for the amounts deposited in court, because the invoice more as much as More time the money is deposited.
“Unlike the unbelievable speculation of delay deliberated in the trial of proceedings, the São Paulo Court of Justice has increasingly raised its productivity, which is the result of these investments and the effort of its servers and magistrates,” says the note signed by Judge Torres Garcia.
According to the note, from 2021 to 2024, there was a leap from 3.1 million to 7.6 million in the number of sentences issued by first instance judges. In the second instance, in the same period, the increase was 776 thousand to 1 million appeals judged.
“In addition, in 2024, there was a judgment of another 4.1 million tax executions.”
The text of the TJ-SP claims to be “untrue” that “the magistrates of the São Paulo Court of Justice do not accept the remuneration limit determined by the Constitution”.
“The subsidies of the judges and judges of São Paulo strictly respect the constitutional ceiling. All payments obey the decisions of the Supreme Court and the acts and deliberations of the National Council of Justice,” the text says.
Previous report of Sheet He had shown that, with payments authorized by the Supreme Court and CNJ, as advantages, indemnities and bonuses,-the base salary of the category in São Paulo is R $ 37,600, within the legal limit of 90.25% of the salaries of the STF ministers, which is R $ 44 thousand.
“It is important to note that the court figures are available to everyone in their transparency portal,” the text says.
The note concludes: “A tight, free, free journalistic research and the duty of information would avoid the broadcast of narratives that, far from contributing to the construction of a free and fair society, pay against an institution that, in its most of 150 years of history, has been dedicated to compliance with the law. “
