Nilo Coelho. The TCE-PE is a collegiate body composed of a full court and two deliberative chambers that have three councilors each. The full court is the highest instance of deliberation and has seven councilors, among them the president of the Court of Accounts, who is elected to assume a two-year term; currently the position belongs to Marcos Loreto. Among its members, besides the president, the full court also has a vice president, a general ombudsman, an ombudsman, the director of the Professor Barreto Guimarães School of Public Accounts (Escola de Contas Públicas Professor Barreto Guimarães - ECPBG, created in 1998) and the presidents of the two chambers. In the legal world, there is a national debate on the question of the autonomy of the Courts of Accounts between jurists who understand that article 71 of the 1988 Federal Constitution places a Court of Accounts as an integral body of the legislative branch and those who believe that the Courts of Accounts are independent and autonomous bodies that eventually assist it. On the official website of the TCE-PE, it is said that the body is independent. Judiciary The judiciary has the function of judging, according to laws created by the legislature and Brazilian constitutional rules, and is composed of judges, justices, and ministers. Currently, the highest court in Pernambuco's judiciary is the Court of Justice of Pernambuco (TJPE), located in the República Square. Nowadays, the Court of Justice consists of a full court of 52 judges, 4 of whom occupy the court's board for a two-year term, and 20 (including the 4 on the board) make up a Special Organ, currently its president is Luiz Carlos de Barros Figueiredo. The TJPE came into existence by charter of João VI on February 6, 1821. At the time, it was called Court of Appeals of Pernambuco and was established in a space inside the former Jesuits' School of Recife on August 13, 1822. After that, the court's headquarters were moved several times until the current one, the Palace of Justice, was built in 1930. The idea of building the Palace of Justice originated in the government of Sérgio Loreto, who laid the cornerstone of the building on July 2, 1924, in commemoration of the first centennial of the Confederation of the Equator and who was responsible for several modernization works in the city of Recife due to the influence generated by the