In a trial on Wednesday (15), the minister of the (Superior Court of Justice) João Otávio de Noronha criticized the growing interference in processes being processed in court and stated that the scenario shows that “everyone is selling votes throughout Brazil” and that “it is getting difficult”.
Noronha made the statement when he interrupted the reading of his vote. He reported having received “more than ten” requests for hearings from people interested in the same action, in addition to requests that reached his office to postpone the analysis of the case.
“I want to make a record: I received more than ten requests for hearings for people to talk about the same process, without considering the number of requests in my office to postpone the process”, he stated, when addressing the lawyer for the action.
Then, the magistrate said there was “interference in someone else’s process” that has grown.
“Today they already called asking if I could postpone the process when I said it had already been determined. This shows, and has nothing to do with you, that Brasília is getting difficult. The amount of interference in someone else’s process, where a lawyer is regularly appointed, this interference has grown innumerable, that is, everyone selling votes out there, all over Brazil”, he declared.
The minister cast the tie-breaking vote that formed a majority in the Fourth Panel of the STJ to accept the appeal of a foreign vehicle manufacturer against a decision by the TJ-RJ (Court of Justice of ). He followed ministers Isabel Gallotti, who opened the divergence, and Raul Araújo.
The superior court recognized the nullity of the company’s summons in an action for compensation for breach of contract and annulled the acts of the process.
