Based on a field research on institutional confinement and authorization of care, the author questions the specific role of procedure in terms of personal integrity. While a literal reading of the text leads to the conclusion that these provisions have a role in protecting rights, in practice it denotes a transposition of conceptual and interpretative paradigms under “classical” civil procedure, reducing them to a judiciary function. But here, the application of procedure guarantees a consistent and predictable decision with regard to the substantive law and can correct, at least partially, the obvious imbalance between the parties. It is in this sense that procedure for the integrity of the person can contribute to the realization of the role of the judiciary in relation to social and legal inequalities.