Public Prosecutor’s Office ends 2023 with more than 300,000 pending cases
Activity Report published today by Attorney General’s Office Portugal’s Public Prosecutor’s Office ended 2023 with more than 300,000 pending cases, due to the increase in the number of investigations opened
Minister for Justice refutes “orchestrated campaign” against public prosecutors
But more than half have signed a letter saying it exist… In a new development in the ongoing very public agonies aired by politicians and public prosecutors, the minister of
Top prosecutor hits back at “coup d’état” claims
Rosário Teixeira insists prosecutors “have no interest in toppling governments” In a week where former culture minister Pedro Adão e Silva suggested ‘Operation Influencer’ – and all its fall-out –
Minister of Justice wants next Attorney General to “put house in order”
Manages to join chorus of criticism – and deflect it at same time Minister of Justice Rita Alarcão Júdice has seemingly joined the chorus of critics stacking up against the
‘Corrupt’ former minister and paymaster “unlikely to serve jail time”
Plans for Manuel Pinho and Ricardo Salgado already being mapped Last week was ostensibly focused on how “for the first time in Portugal’s democratic history, a former member of government
Supreme court overthrows Socrates’ appeal to remove judges
Portugal’s Supreme Court of Justice has rejected the request by former Socialist prime minister José Sócrates’ for the removal of two of the Lisbon Court of Appeal judges who decided
Court extends house arrest of sole suspect in disappearance of pregnant mother
Aveiro court has extended the house arrest of Fernando Valente, the man suspected of having murdered missing mother of two Mónica Silva (seven months pregnant when she ‘disappeared’ without trace
Court acquits pilot who killed two by landing on packed beach in August
Pilot chose to land on beach as ‘ditching’ into sea would almost certainly have killed him and his passenger The pilot accused of two counts of negligent homicide during an
Supreme Court increases former Minister’s jail term
Armando Vara is already serving time for influence peddling and money laundering The Supreme Court of Justice (STJ) has increased former Socialist minister Armando Vara’s prison sentence to five years
Court officials back on strike: warning “many crimes” could ‘lapse’
Another sector that has emerged from initial talks with Portugal’s new government deeply unimpressed is that of the country’s ‘court officials’ (funcionários de justiça) who have rejected salary increases proposed