Hybrid cars imported into Portugal since 2019 could be liable for 75% tax clawback
Potentially good news for anyone who has imported a hybrid car into Portugal since 2019. As long as the car dates from 2019 or before, importers may be able to
Complaints about ‘functioning of Portuguese Justice’ more than double during pandemic
Complaints from everyday citizens about the functioning (or rather ‘malfunctioning’) of Portuguese Justice have ‘more than doubled’ during the two years of the pandemic. As this story centres on a
Trial begins into who can be blamed for Pedrógão Grande’s horrific deaths and hundreds of injured
Almost four years since wildfires of biblical proportions consumed the lives, health and livelihoods of so many Portuguese citizens in and around Pedrógão Grande, a trial to apportion blame has
‘Killer pilot’ to face trial for beach deaths caused almost four years ago
Carlos Conde d’ Almeida, the 67-year-old pilot who ‘crash landed’ a Cessna plane on a packed beach in Costa da Caparica in 2017 – killing a retired Air Force sergeant
Odemira parish of São Teotónio wins its freedom through the courts
An example of citizens fighting back (with just cause, and winning) came today as the Supreme Administrative Tribunal granted the embattled Odemira parish of São Teotónio the right to ‘advance
Guilty Portuguese bankers slapped with new jail terms
Former bankers of BPP – the Banco Privado Português which collapsed in 2009 taking with it €41 million of clients’ money – have heard today that they ‘must all go
Justice suspends government requisition of ZMar eco-resort in Odemira
After authorising a jack-booted storming of the ZMar eco-resort in the early hours of yesterday morning, the government has been faced with a monumental embarrassment: the Supreme Administrative Tribunal has
Portuguese judge rules former MP and convicted fraudster must be tried for murder
Portuguese judge Pedro Lucas has brought an end to years of legal ‘ducking and dodging’ by ruling that former PSD MP and convicted BPN fraudster Duarte Lima must face trial
Tragic Valentina’s murder: father and step-mother receive long jail terms
A child murder case that horrified the nation for its callous brutality has seen perpetrators Sandro and Márcia Bernardo sent to jail for 25 years and 18 years and nine
Portugal’s ‘bête noir’ former prime minister to hear on Friday if corruption accusation stands
The contortions of Portugal justice have seen to it that it has taken nearly seven years since former Socialist prime minister José Sócrates was arrested on suspicions of corruption for