Collective redress in Brazil

success or disappointment?

Abstract

The text has three major goals: to present the historical evolution and consolidation of the legal writing and jurisprudence in relation to the collective redress in Brazil; to demonstrate, despite the need for better data and further research, the quantitative and qualitative strategic efficiency of the collective judicial redress in the defense of group rights; to inform possible development trends based on the interrelation between class actions, aggregate litigation and precedents, and structural injunctions in procedural law, with special emphasis on the procedural law of disasters. The main concern of the text is to outline the collective process in Brazil by indicating some of the development trends.