Special Procedures and Appeal

Recommended Prerequisites

Civil Procedure I and II; General theory of Civil law; Law of obligations; Right things; Family law and law of the solutions.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical-practical classes

Learning Outcomes

It is intended that students acquire an overview of the models of special procedures legally envisaged in the scope of the portuguese civil procedure, as well as the ways of appealing judicial decisions, in terms of its procedures and requirements, acquiring the capacity to properly interpret the law as well to frame and solve practical problems.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

I-Notions of process and form of process. Distinction from the concept of action. Framework and study of the voluntary jurisdiction. An analytical study (doctrinal and jurisprudential contextualized) of some modalities of special civil procedures with more practical relevance, namely those related to family law and succession and to the human personality protection.

II- Notion of judicial appeal. Distinction from other forms of procedural reaction. Procedural regimen of the ordinary appeals (apelação e revista).

Head Lecturer(s)

Lucinda Maria Duarte Dias Silva

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Other: 20.0%
Exam: 80.0%

Bibliography

VARELA, Antunes, BEZERRA, Miguel, NORA, Sampaio e, Manual de Processo Civil, Coimbra Editora, 2004; SOUSA, Miguel Teixeira de, Estudos sobre o novo processo civil, Lex, 1996; FERREIRA DE ALMEIDA, Francisco Manuel, Direito Processual Civil, I v.(2010), II v. (2015), Almedina; REIS, Alberto dos, Processos Especiais, Coimbra, 2 vols., 1955/56;LEBRE DE FREITAS, José,  Reflexões sobre a reforma dos recursos em processo civil, Cadernos de Direito Privado, Braga, n.º 20, Out.-Dez., 2007; A marcha dos recursos ordinários, in As recentes reformas na acção executiva e nos recursos, Wolters Kluwer, 2010; MENDES, Armindo Ribeiro, Recursos em processo civil, Lex, 1994; A reforma de 2007 dos recursos cíveis e o Supremo Tribunal de Justiça, in Estudos comemorativos dos 10 anos da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Almedina, 2008; ABRANTES GERALDES, António Santos, Recursos no Novo Código de Processo Civil, 3.ª Edição, Almedina, 2016.