What is Court costs (custas processuais)?

Court costs are the case’s expenses, computed at 2% of the conviction or the claim value (art. 789 of the CLT), borne by the losing party. For a company seeking to appeal, paying the costs — alongside the appeal deposit — is a condition of admissibility: without it, the appeal is not heard.

Accessory as they are to the principal amount, the costs form part of the total cost of litigating and of appealing. Free legal aid exempts from their payment the party who proves insufficiency of means.

How LABORIS AI uses it

LABORIS AI factors costs and deposits into the cost of appealing, an input to the decision between pressing on, provisioning or settling.