THE EXCESSIVE DEMAND OF THE BRAZILIAN COURTS AND ITS EFFECT ON INCOME INEQUALITY: A COMPARATIVE STUDY WITH EUROPEAN COUNTRIES SHOWS AN UNREASONABLE REALITY

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This article exams the excessive demand of the Brazilian courts and its effect on income inequality. The high demand, approximately 86 million court cases in a year, compel the State to invest a huge amount of financial resources in the judicial system, about 150 billion reais. Income inequality is a problem in Brazil with social problems such as hunger and habitation and the amount invested in the judicial system is missed in other areas. The best thing the State can do is to evolve other options to resolve conflicts, such as arbitration, and try to dissolve this litigation culture that happens in Brazil. As we analyze other realities in European countries, such as Germany, it’s clear that the Brazilian reality presents numbers extremely elevated in courts cases, lawyers per person and judicial budget. To that end, the methodology chosen was the deductive method alongside literature review with data analysis of official channels.