MODERN PROCEDURAL LAW IN THE COURTS OF AUDITORS: GENERAL POWER OF PRECAUTIONARY AND ASTREINTES

Abstract

Courts of Auditors are sui generis in nature as designed after the classic tripartite system of government and following impositions of the State’s financial phenomenon. In that sense they don’t relate to any of the branches in the usual sense. In their competence to judge, however, it’s useful to proxy judicial institutes and adjective law of the civil procedure. In what follows we have studied the applicability of astreintes to the Courts of Auditors judicature, declare it as being contained in the general power of caution and exemplify it with Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte and Roraima states Courts of Auditors practice.