Complaint against Admiral Gouveia e Melo ‘archived’
A complaint (that many would have labelled pedantic in the extreme) against the Chief of Staff of the Navy, Admiral Gouveia e Melo, for NOT ruling out a candidacy to
Orthopedic surgeon ordered to pay €289,000 for leaving patient wheelchair-bound
An orthopedic surgeon has been ordered to pay €298,000 to the patient who he left ‘wheelchair bound’ after what should have been a fairly simple surgery. “The patient walked into
Appeal court judge, investigated in two criminal cases, promoted to Portugal’s highest court
Leader writer warns: “Remember the name of this judge!” Against the backdrop of so many other events this week, the promotion of a former Lisbon appeal court judge to the
Prison services’ director’s dismissal “will be political decision”
Justice minister receives report on jailbreak to present at press conference later today The possible dismissal of the Director General of Reintegration and Prison Services, Rui Abrunhosa Gonçalves, following the
Portugal’s ‘other famous jail breaker’ is in Israel; won’t be extradited
With so much focus on Saturday’s jailbreak, journalists have started remembering the last ‘famous jail break’, from Caxias, in 2017. The Portuguese convict ‘still technically on the run’ infuriated police
Trial opens with ‘suspected corruptor’ blaming politicians
The trial into ‘Operation Vortex’ opens this week, with the initially suspected corruptor reportedly pointing the finger at politicians (both PSD and PS – one of whom used to be
Over 140 car owners seek justice after blaze that wiped out carpark
Upwards of 144 car owners who returned from abroad to find the carpark where they had left their vehicles had suffered a catastrophic fire are back in the news this
Lawyers threaten to ‘paralyse courts from September’
As if the strikes waged throughout the year by court workers, and habitual case backlogs, were not enough, now lawyers are threatening to ‘paralyse’ Portugal’s courts (further) from September. The
Ex-economy minister appeals 10-year sentence; ‘crass errors’ in decision
Portugal’s former minister of the economy Manuel Pinho has lodged an appeal to the Lisbon Court of Appeal (TRL) against his 10-year prison sentence in the EDP case, calling for
Accounts Court censures government
The bitter wrangle over INEM’s ‘direct contract’ for emergency helicopter cover with Spanish group Avincis has seen the Accounts Court rule that the contract must go forwards, even though ‘illegal’,