É assegurado ao servidor público o direito de requerer aos poderes públicos, em defesa de direito ou interesse legítimo, devendo o requerimento ser dirigido à autoridade competente para decidi-lo e ser encaminhado por intermédio da autoridade a que estiver imediatamente subordinado o requerente. Da decisão proferida, cabem pedido de reconsideração à própria autoridade que houver expedido o ato e recurso à autoridade imediatamente superior a essa e, sucessivamente, em escala ascendente, às demais autoridades.

the right to die is a controversial issue.

survival, for some, should be a personal choice.

engineers are searching for a special machine to extend people's life to eternity.

some doctors believe that, in some cases, patients should have their lives shortened if they want to.

never before have human beings, in general, lived so much as at present.

the introduction of e-government in the Brazilian judicial system still presents some limitations and a global evaluation both of the bureaucracy and of the legal process is rather more a matter of expectation than an actual reality.

the e-Court project is supposed to be entirely carried out by private institutions which will provide the necessary funds for their accomplishment.

petitions may no longer be required to be actually signed by lawyers as they can be addressed to the law court of justice by means of using electronic devices.

the electronic government proposal in our judiciary system has been proved to be a success. At present, all Brazilian courts make their jurisprudence available on the Internet.