Further calls for resignation of Portugal’s interior minister as Archbishop steps in to Odemira’s human slavery controversy
There have been further (blistering) calls for the resignation of Portugal’s minister for interior administration Eduardo Cabrita as now the Catholic Church has stepped into the brouhaha brought on by
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
SEF officially becomes SEA today as PSP/ GNR take over control of Portugal’s borders
SEF – the recently ‘much-in-the-news-for-all-the-wrong-reasons’ Serviço de Estrangeiros e Fronteiras – has ‘officially’ ceased to exist (although in reality it will continue for some time). From today (Thursday April 15)
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
Portugal extends inquiry into alleged violence at airport border control
Portugal’s Minister of Internal Administration, Eduardo Cabrita, has decided to extend an investigation into allegations of violence and mistreatment at the Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF) facilities at Lisbon airport,
Judicial corruption controversy: President of Court of Appeal stands down
Following allegations of rigging in the system of allocating judges, president of Lisbon’s Court of Appeal Orlando Nascimento has resigned with immediate effect. A letter tendering his resignation was requested
Judicial uproar as investigation suggests system of allocating cases is rigged, and open to corruption
Judges at Lisbon’s Court of Appeal are in an embarrassing spotlight this week as a journalistic investigation suggests the way cases are allocated has been manipulated, so that specific judges
Defamation claim against former Madeiran president to reach courtroom after 26 years…
It has taken 26 years for a defamation claim against the former president of Madeira Alberto João Jardim to get its day in court. The reason, explain reports, is that