# Court of Justice of São Paulo

The Court of Justice of São Paulo (Portuguese: Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo (TJSP)) is the judicial branch of the Government of São Paulo. Its head office is in the capital and it has jurisdiction across the state.
It is constituted of 56 Judiciary Districts and has 360 desembargadores, considered the largest court in the world. It includes substitute judges of second degree and summoned judges, 729 in total. In January 2009, the quantity of cases in progress reached 18.21 million.
The president elect for the 2024/2025 biennium is desembargador Fernando Torres Garcia.

## Assignments

The TJSP is the head of the Judiciary. It considers the final appeals of sentences given in the state districts. Its assignments are defined by the Article 74 of the São Paulo State Constitution.
* Prosecute and judge originally:
* in common criminal offenses: the Vice-Governor, the State Secretaries, the State Deputies, the Prosecutor-General of Justice, the Attorney-General of the State, the Public Defender-General and the Mayors.
* in common criminal offenses and responsibility crimes: the judges of the Military Justice Court, the Judges of Law and Judges of Military Law (first instance), the members of the Public Prosecutor's Office (except the Prosecutor-General of Justice), the Delegate-General of the Civil Police and the Commanders of the Military Police of the State of São Paulo and of the Military Firefighters Corps of the State of São Paulo.
* the writs of security and the habeas data against the Governor's acts, of the Board and Presidency of the Legislative Assembly, the Court itself or any of its members, the Presidents of the State and City Court of Accounts, the Prosecutor-General of Justice, the Mayor and the President of the Municipal Chamber of São Paulo.
* the habeas corpus in the cases which appeals are from within its competence or when the coercion or patient is an authority directly subject to its jurisdiction, except for the jurisdiction of the Military Justice Court, in cases which appeals are from its jurisdiction.
* the writs of injunction, when the inexistence of a state of municipal regulatory rule, from any of the Powers, include from indirect administration, becomes impossible the exercise of rights secured in this Constitution.
* the representation of unconstitutionality of the law or state or municipal normative act, contested before the State Constitution, the request of intervention in the cities and acts of unconstitutionality by omissão, in view of the precept in the State Constitution.
* the rescission acts of its judged and criminal appeals of cases in its jurisdiction.
* the attribution conflicts between the administrative and judiciary authorities of the state.
* the complaint for the guarantee of authority of its decision.
* the representation of unconstitutionality of law or municipal normative act, contested before the Federal Constitution.
* Invoke the intervention of the Union in the state to guarantee the free exercise of the Judiciary, in the terms of the State and Federal Constitutions.
* Request the intervention of the state in a city, according to terms provided by law.

## Directors

* Fernando Antonio Torres Garcia - President
* Artur Cesar Beretta da Silveira - Vice-President
* Francisco Eduardo Loureiro - Inspector-General
* Heraldo de Oliveira Silva - President of the Private Law Section
* Ricardo Cintra Torres de Carvalho - President of Public Law Section
* Adalberto José Queiroz Telles de Camargo Aranha Filho - President of Criminal Law Section
* José Carlos Gonçalves Xavier de Aquino - Dean