Portugal / Jurisprudence Constitutional / Constitutionnelle 2018
Author(s)
Catarina Gouveia Alves
Miguel João Costa
Rui Tavares Lanceiro
Language
English
Pages
32
2019/ Vol. 31, No. 3, (113)
Type
Digital edition
5.00 €

Jurisprudence

Constitutional / Constitutionnelle

2018

Portugal

Catarina Gouveia Alves

Legal adviser at the Portuguese Constitutional Court

Miguel João Costa

Legal adviser at the Portuguese Constitutional Court;
Guest Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra;
Integrated Researcher of the University of Coimbra Institute for Legal Research (UCILeR)

Rui T. Lanceiro

Legal adviser at the Portuguese Constitutional Court; Assistant Professor at the University of Lisbon School of Law; Senior Research Fellow at Centro de Investigação de Direito Público
(CIDP - Lisbon Centre for Research in Public Law)

The present chronicle gives an overview of the Portuguese Constitutional Court case law of 2018. In this year, the Court issued an important decision regarding the unconstitutionality of some aspects of the Law on Medically Assisted Reproduction, especially those related with surrogate motherhood. Besides this ruling, most of the other decisions drew little media attention. Despite of that, the Court faced relevant challenges in different fields of the Portuguese legal framework. As usual, Criminal and Tax Law stood out as the main legal areas approached by the Portuguese Constitutional Court, with a relevant decision in Family Law also. This is reflected in the decisions summarized in the chronicle.

La présente chronique donne un aperçu de la jurisprudence de la Cour constitutionnelle portugaise en 2018. Au cours de cette année, la Cour a rendu un arrêt important concernant linconstitutionnalité de certains aspects de la loi sur la procréation médicalement assistée, notamment ceux liés à la maternité de substitution. A part cet arrêt, les autres ont pour la plupart peu attiré lattention des médias. Cependant, la Cour a été confrontée à des défis pertinents dans différents domaines du cadre juridique portugais. Comme dhabitude, le droit pénal et le droit fiscal se sont imposés comme les principaux domaines juridiques abordés par la Cour constitutionnelle portugaise, plus un arrêt pertinent en matière de droit de la famille. Cela se reflète dans les arrêts résumés dans la chronique.

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