Will OAB stop STF abuses against lawyers’ rights?

This Monday (27), during the opening of the 24th National Conference of Brazilian Law, in Belo Horizonte (MG), the national president of the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB), Beto Simonetti, and the president of the Minas Gerais section Gerais, Sérgio Leonardo, were applauded when they emphatically criticized abuses by the Federal Supreme Court (STF) against the prerogatives of lawyers. The president of the STF, minister Luís Roberto Barroso, was present at the ceremony.

The statements come a few days after Minister Alexandre de Moraes mocked the OAB by denying a lawyer the right to defense during a plenary session of the Court. Moraes claimed that the denial would be provided for in the Supreme Court’s internal regulations. The following day, the Order released a statement, without mentioning the name of the minister, saying that the “internal rules of a court are not worth more than the Constitution and the laws”.

This Monday, the president of the OAB delivered a letter to Barroso asking for the amendment of the STF’s internal regulations so that the judgment of original criminal actions is carried out, as a rule, in person, and with the right to oral arguments from lawyers. A People’s Gazette wants to know your opinion on the matter. Participate by voting in the poll below: