The issue of conflict of interests is here to stay, and apparently expand, in the higher courts. We already had the problem of in the Superior Court of Justice (), the issue of dangerous connections in the Supreme Court (), the creation of new ones in the Military Justice () and now we have the sale of courses for lawyers in the labor court (). These topics do not tell the whole story of the errors taking place in this universe, but at least they strengthen the evidence of the need for rules of conduct.
Codes of ethics, alone, do not cover the risks, but they are a start in imposing brakes on authorities that exercise power in an unrestrained way and who would at least be subjected to the embarrassment of being seen as violators.
The president of the TST, Luiz Philippe Vieira de Mello Filho, (still inglorious) to minister Edson Fachin, explaining the situation even more clearly than the president of the STF has done.
“Ministers giving lectures on courses paid for by lawyers, teaching how to act in court, is completely unethical”, he said, highlighting the conflict of interests with all the ef’s and er’s.
It is surprising that he was, as he claims, taken by surprise, given that the majority of judges — 14 of the 25 on the panel — supplement their earnings with the activity of providing lawyers with the right path to succeed in defending their labor cases in the court where they will be judged. This is not a legitimate exercise of teaching, it is a lesson in undue lobbying.
Magistrate Vieira de Mello, however, sins by reinforcing and normalizing the law, placing himself in the wing of the morally superior. It is therefore evident that the same type of party dynamics exist in the TST that contaminates the STF.
In this way, nothing is corrected; everything is thrown into the ditch of internal disputes for a political protagonism incompatible with those who owe society the role of good justice.
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