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Ministry Of Justice (Portugal)
The Ministry of Justice () is the Portuguese government ministry responsible for the administration of the judiciary system. It is headed by the Minister of Justice. The Ministry of Justice should not be confused with the Public Ministry. This last one is not a Government ministry - despite the name - but the independent body of magistrates of the Judiciary charged with the public prosecution and the legal representation of the State before the courts. Unlike usual in other countries, the Portuguese Minister of Justice does not have any kind of hierarchic authority over the public prosecutors. Roles The roles of the Ministry of Justice include: * to conceive, to conduct, to execute and to assess the policy of Justice defined by the Assembly of the Republic and by the Government; * to assure the relationship of the Government with the courts, the Public Ministry, the Higher Council of Magistrates and the Higher Council of the Administrative and Tax Courts. History The pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Of Portugal
A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a means by which organizational policies are enforced, as well as a mechanism for determining policy. In many countries, the government has a kind of constitution, a statement of its governing principles and philosophy. While all types of organizations have governance, the term ''government'' is often used more specifically to refer to the approximately 200 independent national governments and subsidiary organizations. The main types of modern political systems recognized are democracies, totalitarian regimes, and, sitting between these two, authoritarian regimes with a variety of hybrid regimes. Modern classification systems also include monarchies as a standalone entity or as a hybrid system of the main three. Historically prevale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rui Machete
Rui Manuel Parente Chancerelle de Machete (born 7 April 1940) is a Portuguese politician. Machete served as Minister of Social Affairs from 1976 to 1979, Minister of Justice from 1983 to 1985, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense in 1985, and Minister of State and Foreign Affairs from 2013 to 2015. He was the leader of the Social Democratic Party in 1985. Honours National * Grand Cross of the Military Order of Christ (15 June 1988) Foreign *: Sash of the Order of the Aztec Eagle (15 September 2015) *: Order of the Yugoslav Flag Order, ORDER or Orders may refer to: * A socio-political or established or existing order, e.g. World order, Ancien Regime, Pax Britannica * Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood * H ... with Golden Wreath (9 July 1976) References 1940 births Living people Government ministers of Portugal Ministers of foreign affairs of Portugal Justice ministers of Portuga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Politics Of Portugal
Politics in Portugal operates as a Unitary state, unitary Multi-party system, multi-party Semi-presidential system, semi-presidential Representative democracy, representative democratic republic, whereby the Prime Minister of Portugal is the head of government, and the President of Portugal is the non-executive head of state which, although it is a somewhat ceremonial figure, has some significant political powers they exercise often.Duties of the President – Head of State ''Official Page of the Presidency of the Portuguese Republic''. Retrieved 7 September 2021. Executive power is exercised by the Government of Portugal, Government, whose leader is the prime minister. Legislative power is primarily vested in the Assembly of the Republic (Portugal), Assembly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justice Ministry
A justice ministry, ministry of justice, or department of justice, is a ministry or other government agency in charge of the administration of justice. The ministry or department is often headed by a minister of justice (minister for justice in a very few countries) or a secretary of justice. In some countries, the head of the department may be called the attorney general, for example in the United States. Monaco is an example of a country that does not have a ministry of justice, but rather a Directorate of Judicial Services (head: Secretary of Justice) that oversees the administration of justice. Vatican City, a country under the sovereignty of the Holy See, also does not possess a ministry of justice. Instead, the Governorate of Vatican City State (head: President of the Governorate of Vatican City State), the legislative body of the Vatican, includes a legal office. Depending on the country, specific duties may relate to organizing the justice system, overseeing the public ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catarina Sarmento E Castro
Catarina Teresa Rola Sarmento e Castro (born 16 May 1970) is a Portuguese jurist and politician. As a member of the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS), she became a deputy in the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic in the January 2022 Portuguese legislative election, representing Leiria. Between 2019 and 2022 she served as Secretary of State for Human Resources and Former Combatants. A professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Coimbra, she has also served as a judge in the Constitutional Court. She was appointed Minister of Justice in March 2022, following the 2022 Portuguese legislative election, when the PS won an overall majority, but lost the position after the March 2024 elelction, when the PS was defeated and the Democratic Alliance formed the government. Early life and education Catarina Teresa Rola Sarmento e Castro was born in Coimbra on 16 May 1970. Her father was Osvaldo Alberto do Rosário Sarmento e Castro, a former Socialist Party deputy in the Assembly o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisca Van Dunem
Francisca Eugénia da Silva Dias Van Dunem (born 5 November 1955) is an Angolan-born Portuguese lawyer and politician who served as the Portuguese Minister of Justice from 26 November 2015 to 30 March 2022, in António Costa's XXI and XXII Constitutional Governments, and Minister of Internal Administration from 4 December 2021 to 30 March 2022. Van Dunem was Portugal's first black government minister in history. Early life and education Van Dunem was born in 1955 in Luanda, then the capital of the Portuguese Overseas Province of Angola. She went to Lisbon in the early 1970s in order to study law at the University of Lisbon. In April 1974, the Portuguese Estado Novo regime was overthrown by a left-wing military coup and in 1975 Angola become a newly independent communist state - the People's Republic of Angola. Her brother José Jacinto Van-Dúnem was murdered in a purge that occurred in Agostinho Neto's post-independence Angola that same year. Van Dunem did not return to A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernando Negrão
Fernando Mimoso Negrão (born 29 November 1955) is a Portuguese jurist and politician. Born in Portuguese Angola, he graduated in Law from the University of Lisbon in 1980 and spent his career around the country as a Portuguese Air Force official, magistrate and judge. From 1995 to 1999 he headed the Polícia Judiciária. A member of the Social Democratic Party (Portugal), Social Democratic Party (PSD), he was elected to the Assembly of the Republic (Portugal), Assembly of the Republic in the 2002 Portuguese legislative election, 2002 election as head of their list for Faro (Assembly of the Republic constituency), Faro. From 2004 to 2005, in the government of Pedro Santana Lopes, he was the Minister for Social Security, Family and Children. In the XX Constitutional Government of Portugal, led by Pedro Passos Coelho from 30 October to 26 November 2015, Negrão was Minister of Justice. In October 2015, Negrão ran for President of the Assembly, losing 120–108 to the Socialist P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Teixeira Da Cruz
Paula Maria von Hafe Teixeira da Cruz (born 1 June 1960) is a Portuguese lawyer and politician. She served as Minister of Justice in the government led by Pedro Passos Coelho from 2011 to 2015. Early life She was born in Luanda, Portuguese Angola in 1960. Her father was Augusto Teixeira da Cruz and her mother was Maria Susana Casanho von Hafe, whose father was a German. Leaving Angola in 1975 due to the events of the Carnation Revolution (1974) she attended Liceu Padre António Vieira, in Lisbon, Portugal and graduated in law at the Universidade Livre de Lisboa in 1983. Until 1987, she taught at the same university, as well in the Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa, as assistant of Administrative law. She ministered the same course aInstituto de Estudos Superiores Financeiros e Fiscais between 1991 and 1992. A lawyer since 1992, she had an office in Garrett Street, in Lisbon. In 2006 she joineF. Castelo Branco & Associados where she coordinated the Department of Pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Martins
Alberto de Sousa Martins GCL GOC (born 25 April 1945, Guimarães, Portugal) is a Portuguese lawyer and politician, who has served as Minister of State Reform and Public Administration from 1999 to 2002, and as Minister of Justice from 2009 to 2011. Biography Alberto Martins was born in Guimarães, on 25 April 1945. Martins was one of the main figures from the 1969 academic crisis in Portugal, when, as President of the Academic Association of Coimbra, he asked President Américo Tomás to speak against the Estado Novo regime. After the Carnation Revolution, he joined the Movement of Socialist Left, a marxist political party, being one of the main figures of the party. He later left the party and joined the center-left Socialist Party, being elected an MP for the first time in 1987. He was subsequently re-elected in 1991, 1995, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2009, 2011 and 2015. In 1999, he was appointed by António Guterres as Minister of State Reform and Public Administration, ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Costa (Portuguese Politician)
Alberto Bernardes Costa (born in Alcobaça, 1947) was the Portuguese Minister of Justice ''(Ministro da Justiça)'' from 12 March 2005 to 26 October 2009. References External links * {{Portugal-politician-stub 1947 births Living people People from Alcobaça, Portugal Socialist Party (Portugal) politicians Justice ministers of Portugal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Pedro Aguiar-Branco
José Pedro Correia de Aguiar-Branco (born 18 July 1957) is a Portuguese lawyer and politician who has been the President of the Assembly of the Republic since 2024, in the 16th Legislature. Previously he served as Minister of Justice from 2004 to 2005 and Minister of National Defence from 2011 to 2015. In 2024, he was elected as member of the Assembly of the Republic in the 2024 legislative elections, for the Viana do Castelo constituency. Honours Foreign *: Grand Cross of the Order for Merits to Lithuania (9 November 2019) *: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (28 February 2018) *: Grand Officer of the Order of the Star of Romania (28 February 2018) *: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic The Royal Order of Isabella the Catholic (; Abbreviation, Abbr.: OYC) is a knighthood and one of the three preeminent Order of merit, orders of merit bestowed by the Kingdom of Spain, alongside the Order of Charles III (established in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
