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A Labour court in Campinas, Brazil. Regional Labor Courts (Portuguese: Tribunais Regionais do Trabalho) are Brazilian appellate courts of the Federal specialized court system for matters of labor law. There currently are 24 Regional Labor Courts, geographically defined by numbered Regions.
The origin of the court was the National Labor Council, created in 1923, which was a part of the executive branch, subordinated to the Ministry of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce. [ 1 ] In 1946, the council was transformed into the Tribunal Superior do Trabalho .
The Regional Labor Courts are composed of at least seven judges, unofficially given the title of Desembargador, recruited preferably from the local region, of whom a fifth must be lawyers with at least ten years of experience or members of the Labor Public Ministry, similarly to other Regional Courts, they are named by the President of Brazil ...
State Federal Superior courts 0 Supreme Federal Court STF 1 Federal superior courts. STJ TSE TST STM. 4 Common justice Court of Justice TJ 27 Federal Regional Courts TRF1 .. TRF6 6 Specialized justice Court of Military Justice 3 Electoral Justice Courts TRE 27 TJM Regional Labor Courts TRT 24 Total [1] [2] [3] 30 62
State Federal Superior courts 0 Supreme Federal Court STF 1 Federal superior courts. STJ TSE TST STM. 4 Common justice Court of Justice TJ 27 Federal Regional Courts TRF1 .. TRF6 6 Specialized justice Court of Military Justice 3 Electoral Justice Courts TRE 27 TJM Regional Labor Courts TRT 24 Total [1] [2] [3] 30 62
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It is one of the five high courts in Brazil, the highest instance in the Brazilian federalized labor courts system, which includes the Regional Labor Courts (Tribunais Regionais do Trabalho - TRT's), at common appeal level, and the Trial Labor Courts (Varas do Trabalho) in the first instance.
Although having a parallel jurisdiction to second-instance State Courts, its judges were called "Ministers", denomination given to Justices from higher Courts. It was extinguished by the 1988 Constitution , which distributed all its competence to the new Federal Regional Courts (a total of five, placed around the national territory), with the ...