Electronic Lawsuit:

virtualization public policy of the judiciary

Abstract

The policy of virtualization formulated by The Brazilian National Council of Justice consist in the use of the internet  in the  processing of lawsuits  by making the process accessible at any place and at any desired time. Although this policy has been already adopted singly by some segments of the Brazilian Judiciary Body, the great innovation has been the use of one unique operational system by all Brazilian Judiciary Body: Electronic Judicial Lawsuit (PJe). This system have an implementation methodology to be followed by those who want to adopt it, being this process of implementation of the policy of virtualization of  the object of analysis of the research. The general objective of this discourse is the analysis of the virtualization of the public policy, denominated as Electronic Judicial Lawsuit, in the Federal Justice in the State of Ceará/Brazil. Following the comprehensive methodology by Max  Weber,  the  ideal types were defined  in relation to the two phases of the process of implementation of the referred objective of this research and,from this, it has been analyzed the experience of the Brazilian Federal Justice from the years of 2009 to 2012 with regards to the new system. The Brazilian Electronic Judicial Lawsuits are in constantly being updating according to the necessities of the jurisdictional sectors. It is concluded that the formulation of public policy by the Brazilian Judiciary Body is indispensable to the difficulties faced  along the process of implementation of the PJe,  and be  it the first step in the  long  way to go to make the Brazilian Judiciary Body faster, transparent and accessible to all, without any distinctions.