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Postada em 16/06/2009
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Introdução
In part two of our three part series on Brazil's Supreme Federal Tribunal you get to find out one of the improvements Mr. Mendes has made to the judicial system. And no, we're not talking about repainting the court room here, but real reforms that are helping to trim the fat off the justices' workload.
Metas
At the end of this lesson you'll be able to:
- Understand words related to the judicial system
- Understand the difference between the present perfect and past simple
- Understand different uses of the word "measure"
Mr. Mendes has in fact made some improvements to an institution that in the past has sometimes seemed to care more about its pension entitlements than about dispensing wisdom. In particular, he has taken advantage of reforms to the justice system made by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s government in 2004 to get things moving a bit faster.
One of these reforms allowed the court to create binding precedents that must be followed by lower courts in similar cases. To be heard by the tribunal a case must now have “general repercussion in society”. If this test is not met then the judgment of a lower court is accepted as final. Together these measures have cut the number of cases distributed to the tribunal’s members between April last year and March this year to a mere 56,500, compared with 97,400 in the same period of the previous year.
Adapted from: Economist.com
Vocabulário: Pension , Entitlement, Binding Precedent, Measure, Mere, To Compare With, To Compare To
Gramática: Present perfect x past simple
Comentários
Tem sugestões de aulas? Envie suas idéias
Some of my measures: I have decided stop ordering food at night (the risk is that now, I have to cook - and eat my food - at night)... Leave my car parked and walk whenever possible... Stop smoking (not yet realized....).