Court spends €10,000 getting ready to hear €3.2 million fraud trial
Leiria court has just spent around €10,000 on renovations to ensure it’s ready for a trial into the alleged €3.2 million fraud of designer footwear, that damaged household names like
Ryanair forced to pay Portuguese staff according to Portuguese law
Lowcost airline Ryanair has seen Lisbon’s Court of Appeal rule in favour of cabin staff whose rights have been ‘constantly violated’ for over a decade because Ryanair refused to recognise
Judicial year opens with blistering attack on ‘political power’
Monday saw the start of the new judicial year – this time marked by a blistering attack on political power. Supreme tribunal president António Joaquim Piçarra laid the blame for
Maria Luísa beach tragedy trial begins in Loulé
The Portuguese State is the only defendant in the trial that begins today at Loulé’s administrative court to determine who was responsible for the tragic rock fall at Albufeira’s Maria
Aggression between colleagues ruled as “work accident”
Évora appeal court judges have ruled that consequences of ‘aggression between colleagues’ can be considered ‘work accidents’. The decision has come years after a temporary hotel worker was attacked by
Global stock markets tumble as Chinese Huawei boss detained in Canada
President Xi of China had no sooner returned home from his two-day stop-off in Portugal last night than his country was plunged into a new level of ‘suspicion’: this time
Tutti Frutti – or ‘Tutti Corrupti”: new investigation into alleged institutional corruption
As if we already didn’t have enough corruption investigations with odd names, ‘tutti frutti’, or as one respected commentator has dubbed it: “tutti corrupti”, has been added to the pile.
“Galpgate” now joined by “Huaweigate”
Press delight in politicians being allegedly caught with their fingers in forbidden pies continues this week with a new ‘disgrace’: freebie trips to China. Following hot-on-the-heels of the “football freebie
Sentencing due today on Algarve kidnap dad helped covertly by Portuguese authorities
Sentencing is due today on Filipe Silva – the Vilamoura businessman who kidnapped his British daughter ‘Ellie’ for seven months, with all kinds of collusion from the Portuguese authorities. As
Monchique courthouse to reopen in 2017
Monchique’s courthouse is set to reopen in 2017, Mayor Rui André announced on Wednesday (May 18) after a meeting in Lisbon with Justice Minister Francisca Van Dunen. “I received a