Actually the Brazilian judicial system is going through a period of rapid transformation. The state courts and the superior and federal courts have partially or fully computerized the judicial procedure. This is called electronic Justice or E-Justice. Concomitantly with this process of computerization, there was the establishment of a system of data collection and statistical analysis of the judiciary, as well as an evaluation system of his performance through specific indices. This system can be called quantitative Justice or Q-Justice. In this paper, we analyze the actual interfaces between the E-Justice and Q-Justice, ie, we describe the main systems of data collection of the Brazilian Judiciary, we indicate some methodological remarks on publishing on web the public data and on statistical research with judicial data, and point out the future prospects of the judicial metrics toward new computing technologies such as data mining and cloud computing.
eletronic justice; judicial metrics; data-mining; cloud-computing