Professor at the Lisbon Law School points out that the “lawsuits that were distributed to this judge will be redistributed (…) turning everything back zero” and recalls the alerts made about how missed the administrative courts are. And he says he is “curious” to know the reasoning that authorized the Service Commission.
The Minister of State and Finance, Joaquim Miranda Sarmento, participates in the press conference at the end of the Council of Ministers, at the Ministry of Finance, in Lisbon, January 16, 2025. Manuel de Almeida/Lusa
“I confess that, as a lawyer who usually litigates in the administrative courts, this designation disturbs me.” This is how Professor João Miranda analyzes the appointment of Judge Ricardo de Oliveira and Sousa by the Montenegro government to lead the public company generates the state’s properties, Estão.
“The problem” is not due to the “in question” person that João Miranda says he is unaware of “totally”, but “yes because he means another downtown of a judge in a higher court of administrative jurisdiction”, according to the professor of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon commenting on the news of “business” to the appointment of the entity managed by the parpublic, guarded by the Minister of Finance, Joaquim Miranda Sarmento.
The professor of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon also says he has no “memory of having a public company run by a career judge.” João Miranda teaches administrative law, urbanism, environment and fundamental rights.
“Administrative jurisdiction is flagenized with numerous pending issues and a long time for decision. But still, believing in the news, it has not prevented or will prevent the Superior Council of the Administrative and Tax Courts-CSTAF-from authorizing the service committee of this judge at the Estamo-real estate parts.
“I do not enter the discussion of knowing if the judge in question has the proper profile for the function, since I totally unaware of his resume. But I can not fail to put myself in the position of colleagues who will have to explain to their constituents that the proceedings that were distributed to this judge will be redistributed to other judges, turning everything to the jurisdictional appeal,” João Miranda.
Recalling the alerts made by Judge Eliana de Almeida Pinto about how “missed” the North and South Administrative Central Courts are, “it is difficult to understand the authorization of this Service Commission”.
“With this I do not mean that judges of the administrative jurisdiction are prevented from seeing commissions of service outside the authorized judiciary. In certain cases, this can be justified in general inspections, services linked to the Ministry of Justice or the provision of justice. The case of the Estamo-real estate participants, SA is, of course, different and I am curious to know the reasoning of the resolution of the Service Commission.” teacher.
By 2023, Judge Ricardo de Oliveira and Sousa had already been nominated by the PSD for the regulatory regulatory council for the media (ERC), but Rita Figueiredo Reis rolled turned out to be the fifth element then missing.
In July, Eliana de Almeida Pinto revealed that in the Lisbon Administrative Court only 80,000 requests for subpoena to the agency for integration, migrations and asylum (AIMA) for lack of deadlines for meeting immigrants, with the judge to point out that there was an increase in processes with changes in immigration and national laws by the government.
