Portuguese courts are up and running
September marks the return of different activities and institutions after the summer break and this includes the courts that resume full operations at the beginning of the month03/09/2020
The improved disposition of the Portuguese courts (if you can afford them)
According to statistics released in August 2018 by the Portuguese Directorate-General for Justice Policy (DGJP), pending civil actions decreased 13.8% in the first quarter of 2018 when compared with the same period in 201713/09/2018
Female Litigation Lawyers: The Present-day Action Heroes?
This year, the International Bar Association (IBA) has launched a global survey to investigate why female lawyers leave law firms31/08/2017
The application of tax treaties to collective investment vehicles: The Portuguese case
The purpose of this article is to make a brief summary of the problems and issues regarding the application of conventions to avoid double taxation to collective investment vehicles, and then to summarize the solution recently (2015) adopted by the Portuguese legislator to address such issues in an...03/07/2017
White-collar crime in Portugal: risks and challenges
With an economy that is still fragile and trying to define the right way out of the financial crisis that led to the intervention of the IMF/European Commission in the middle of 2011, any analysis of white-collar crime in Portugal is dominated by the investigations relating to the main financial...15/03/2016
Focus on the Angolan power sector – Investment in capacity building, efficiency and steps towards liberalisation
2015 brought a revision of the Angolan power sector law (PSL), which followed a 2014 reorganization of the attributions of its major stakeholders (all state owned enterprises (SOE)), most of which had ambitiously been forecasted in the 2011 National Energy Policy and Security of Supply Strategy...26/01/2016
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