Legal basis to designation of audiologists as experts in the Labor Courts in Santa Catarina

ABSTRACT: Purpose: to identify the statutory basis for the appointment of audiologist to the task of experts in the Labor Courts. Methods: the statutory basis was identified by reviewing the constitutional and infra- constitutional provisions in force until the year 2015, judicial sentences, analysis of dispatches, minutes of hearings and hearings with the Judge. Results: the 1988 Constitution when established the principles, rights and fundamental guarantees, allowed the creation of the Law 6,965/81 which provides for the regulation of speech therapist profession, guaranteeing freedom of exercise professional. The Articles 1, 4 and 10 of this Law professed the competence of the speech therapist to act in lawsuits, this condition also was ratified by profession Ethic's Code in Art. 5. The legal provisions above, associated with the Art. 139 and 145 of the Civil Procedure Code have been adopted by the most judges to appoint audiologists to the task of experts in the labor court. Conclusion: the legal basis for the appointment of audiologist to the task of experts in the Labor Courts, start from the constitutional provisions, with broad support in different infraconstitutional devices that provide clarity and legal certainty to appointments made by judges, with national law already pacified in the subject matter.