Duração razoável e celeridade: a tempestividade do processo civil brasileiro em uma dimensão conflitual

Abstract

Focusing on the Brazilian civil procedure, this thesis seeks to address the issue of procedural timing by new angles, and so it is divided in three parts, all of which are formed by two chapters. The first part investigates the impact of the issue over our civil procedure, concluding that such impact was significant (chapter 1), even fomenting the use of a renewed work method, which we named mais-concretismo (chapter 2). The second part seeks to put together a relevant volume of factual and theoretical elements in order to establish the normative regulation of the timing issue, which is the focus of the thesis, also relying on frequent consultations to empirical studies (chapter 3). The second part also emphasizes an alert against the hiperprincipialização phenomenon, which is also present in the Brazilian civil procedure (chapter 4). In the third and conclusive part of the thesis, a position is adopted in connection with the provisions of celerity and reasonable duration of process, both covered in article 5(78) of the Brazilian Constitution (chapter 5). In relation to celerity, the existence of the corresponding principle is confirmed, rejecting the objections that are argued against it. The reasonable duration principle, in turn, is addressed though a double perspective, namely: a) the intra-procedure or individual perspective, within which the principle reveals itself as a blank principle or a destiny-principle , as it is not subject to being balanced in view of other principles; and b) the extra-procedure or collective perspective, within which the principle collides with other principles and is subject to being balanced. Furthermore, the thesis conducts an in depth and concrete analysis of the conflictual dimension of process timing in our country mainly based on precedents from STF and STJ , at the same time indicating parameters and guidelines for the proper resolution of normative conflicts involving timing (chapter 6). Chapter 7 closes by summarizing the main aspects of the thesis.