This work aims to analyze the decision-making powers of the rapporteur in civil appeals in the light of art. 557 of the CPC. To alleviate the workload of the courts, which would result, at least in principle, speeding in the processing of resources in general and, in consequence, the slowness of justice fight, attributed to the rapporteur empowered to hear appeals in the courts, that without submission made to the national collegiate. In accordance with the laws currently in force, the Rapporteur is authorized, sole proprietorship, to decide
the admissibility and even on the merits. This is the utterance of the art. 557 of the CPC, with wording that gave it to Law No. 9.756/98. The decision alone, by
the rapporteur, as provided in Art. 557 of the CPC, always caused much perplexity in the legal community, especially because it breaks with the hallowed tradition of collegiate judgments in courts. However, it could always
be submitted to the collegiate action was brought by the grievance procedure. The ordinary legislator, however, moves decisively to monocratic decisions in
courts. Law No. 11.187/05 is clear manifestation of this trend, since deleted the relevancy of internal grievance against interlocutory decisions rendered in the
cases listed in the paragraph of Article 527 of the CPC, consistent in situations where the rapporteur converts the wrong instrument in withheld, when you assign a suspensive effect or defers, in anticipation of trust, in whole or in part, the appellate claim. The study of Article 557 of the CPC coupled with the spirit of the changes implemented by Law No. 11.187/05 embodies the trend that the
rapporteur shall exercise the powers granted to it by law and that has not ad referendum of the collegial body part
