Portugal’s creaking court system ‘reopened’ today, after a six-week holiday, with a long-list of high profile, long-standing criminal processes still awaiting actions and decisions. As always a number of crimes, particularly involving corruption, stand in danger of ‘lapsing’ due to the time it has taken to get them ‘heard’. Add to this the fact that court workers are ‘on strike’ until Monday effectively – to reinforce, say syndicates, the ‘lamentable’ problems faced within the sector …
Courts reopen today with packed agenda… and strikes
