Procedural safeguards for citizens in criminal proceedings Read the European Commission’s proposals to further strengthen procedural safeguards for citizens in criminal proceedings: 1. A Directive to strengthen the presumption of innocence and the right to be present at trial in criminal proceedings: It will guarantee respect for the presumption of innocence of all citizens suspected […]

EU-WIDE LETTER OF RIGHTS IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS   EU-Wide Letter of Rights in Criminal Proceedings: towards best practice. Read More

THE VICTIM’S RIGHT TO INFORMATION   Read the script of Dr. Carlos Pinto de Abreu’s speech held at the international information seminar organized by APAV, which took place at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Download Charlie Chaplin Quote Download

PROCEDURAL SAFEGUARDS   The European Criminal Bar Association (ECBA) follows certain EU proposals for legislation in the area of criminal justice to ensure that the rights of persons under investigation, suspects, accused and convicted persons are considered and respected. This shall also apply to the public consultation of legislation protecting the EU’s financial interests and […]

MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR THE RIGHT TO LEGAL AID   Everyone is entitled to a fair and public hearing within a reasonable time by an independent and impartial tribunal previously established by law. Everyone shall have the possibility of being advised, defended and represented. Legal aid shall be made available to those who lack sufficient resources […]

Business Crime 2013   A practical cross-border insight into business crime – Portugal Download

Constitutional rights in the balance: Modern exclusionary rules and the toleration of police lawlessness in the search for truth     This article explores the tension in modern criminal procedure between the goal of ascertaining the material truth of the criminal charge and the respect for important human rights of criminal suspects during the investigation […]

Social and economic values in the transformation of the practice of law     Not too many years ago, in Portugal and Spain, the paradigm of the legal professional was of gowned lawyers, lawyers practicing before the courts, who intervened, in particular, in disputes, in the pathology of social and economic interrelation in life. The […]

Please click here to access the text kindly made available by Professor Doutor Paulo de Sousa Mendes corresponding to his speech at the International Conference on “comparative exclusionary rules” on 5.06.2013, held at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences of the Lisbon Law Faculty, with support of our law firm

Double representation in cases of european arrest warrant executions   View the PowerPoint on the necessity of dual representation in cases of European arrest warrant executions, elaborated by Dra. Vânia Costa Ramos, as the script of her presentation at the ERA conference «Making legal remedies in EU Criminal Justice more efficient», which took place in […]