Latest news and stories about legal precedent in Portugal for expats and residents.
The Guimarães Court has revoked the prison sentence of a scrap dealer who had been sentenced to 20 months for three counts of stealing water from the public network, replacing it with a 200-day fine at a daily rate of five euros.
The president of the Portuguese Episcopal Conference (CEP) stated today that the amounts defined as compensation for victims of sexual abuse were calculated taking into account court case law and other European cases, resulting in figures lower than those initially proposed.
In Portugal, victims of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church will receive between 9,000 and 45,000 euros, and 57 compensation requests have already been approved.
The Nova University of Lisbon (UNL) did not allow Pedro Maló to be included in a list of candidates for rector because he is not a full professor. A few days later, the consequence of this exclusion is that the citizen Pedro Maló, a university professor, is now part of the collection of protagonists in the history of Portuguese law.
The PSD parliamentary leader stresses that this decision has no repercussions for the Prime Minister, but rather for “other holders of sovereign offices, whose treatment should be equal.”
The Public Prosecutor's Office concluded that the posters did not constitute incitement to hatred. For André Ventura, the decision sets a precedent regarding freedom of speech in Portugal.
