Base Knowledge
Contemporary Constitutional Law and General Theory of Administrative Law, curricular units taught in the 1st and 2nd semester, respectively, of the Degree in Solicitors and Administration.
Teaching Methodologies
Classes will be taught through the exposition of theoretical content and its practical application. The teaching and learning methodologies aim at the integrated development of students in the knowledge referred to in the syllabus and the achievement of the established objectives and competences. The use of this teaching system implies an active participation of students in terms of study and oral intervention on the subjects taught. The teacher/student and student/student dialectic is accentuated, creating synergies of bi-directional communication geared towards reflection and discussion.
Learning Results
Objectives:
The curricular unit aims at the acquisition of knowledge by students of the legal framework of the means that function as protection or defense of those administered within the scope of legal-administrative relations.
Skills:
Through this curricular unit, students must acquire/develop skills related to the interpretation and application of legal-administrative norms to the resolution of concrete cases.
Program
§ 1. MANAGEMENT GUARANTEES
1. Warranties in General
2. Political Guarantees
3. Administrative Guarantees
4. Complaint to the Ombudsman
5. Litigation Warranties
§ 2. IMPUGNATORY ADMINISTRATIVE GUARANTEES
1. General regime:
a) Object
b) Types of guarantees
c) Nature
d) Grounds
e) Legitimacy
f) Deadlines
g) Effects on terms and acts
2. Specific regime:
a) Complaint
b) Hierarchical Resource
c) Special Administrative Appeal
§3. ADMINISTRATIVE LITIGATION
CHAPTER I – THE SUBSTANTIAL DOMAIN OF ADMINISTRATIVE JUSTICE
1. The substantial delimitation criterion
2. Administrative legal relationships
3. Subjective legal positions of individuals and the Administration
CHAPTER II – THE FUNCTIONAL DIMENSION OF ADMINISTRATIVE JUSTICE
1. Negative material delimitations arising from the functional perspective of administrative justice
2. The functional limits of administrative justice
CHAPTER III – THE ORGANIC SCOPE OF ADMINISTRATIVE JUSTICE: THE ADMINISTRATIVE JURISDICTION
1. The scope of the constitutional reservation of administrative jurisdiction
2. The legal delimitation of the scope of administrative jurisdiction
CHAPTER IV – THE ORGANIZATION OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE JURISDICTION
1. The standardization of the organization of administrative courts
2. Administrative courts
3. The division of competences between the administrative courts
CHAPTER V – THE GUARANTEE OF EFFECTIVE JURISDICTIONAL GUARDIANSHIP
1. The right of access to administrative courts and the principle of effective judicial protection
2. The main process forms
3. Backlog of orders
4. The value of administrative causes
CHAPTER VII – PROCESSING OF ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDINGS
Articulated phase – initiative and first contradictory
Sanitation phase, instruction and allegations
Trial phase: the sentence and the publicity
The special case of priority progress processes
CHAPTER VIII – ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION
1. Objection of administrative acts
2. Condemnation to practice an act due
3. Actions related to standards
4. Actions relating to the validity and execution of contracts
5. Other requests
6. Actions against individuals
7. Interadministrative actions
CHAPTER IX – URGENT PROCEEDINGS
1. Urgent administrative action
2. Subpoenas
CHAPTER X – PREVIOUS PROCEEDINGS
1. Characteristics of precautionary protection
2. The fullness of protection: the universality of the accepted measures
3. The precautionary decision
4. The content of the precautionary decision: the need and suitability of the decreed measure
5. The provisionality and temporality of the decision and content
6. The urgency and summary of cognition
7. The structural instrumentality of the process and the reversibility of the providence
8. The effectiveness of the process and decision
9. The early decision of the main proceedings in the precautionary proceedings
10. The provisional decree of the precautionary measure
11. Special cases
CHAPTER XI – THE EFFECTS AND LEGAL STRENGTH OF JUDGMENTS
1. Judgments in the administrative process
2. The effects of judgments annulling administrative acts
3. The subjective limits of res judicata in administrative actions
4. The extent of the effects of sentences
CHAPTER XII – GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF ADMINISTRATIVE LITIGATION
1. The system of procedural principles
2. The principles relating to the promotion or procedural initiative
3. Principles related to the scope of the process
4. Principles relating to procedural pursuit
5. Principles relating to proof
6. Principles relating to procedural form
Curricular Unit Teachers
Armando Ferreira Soares Veiga
Internship(s)
Bibliography
Bibliografia Principal:
ALMEIDA, Mário Aroso De; CADILHA, Carlos – Comentário ao Código de Processo nos Tribunais Administrativos, Coimbra: Almedina, 2021
AMARAL, DIOGO FREITAS – Curso de Direito Administrativo. Coimbra : Almedina, vol. II, 2018
FONSECA, Isabel Celeste M. – Curso de Direito Processual Administrativo Teórico-Prático. 2.a ed. Coimbra : Almedina, 2022
OTERO, Paulo, “Impugnações administrativas”, Cadernos de Justiça Administrativa, n.º 28, 2001
QUADROS, Fausto; et al. – Comentários à Revisão do Código do Procedimento Administrativo. 2.a ed. Coimbra : Almedina, 2022
SAMPAIO, Jorge Silva; COIMBRA, José Duarte – Os Procedimentos Administrativos de Segundo Grau no CPA. Em Comentários ao Código do Procedimento Administrativo. Lisboa : AAFDL, 2020.
Bibliografia complementar:
AAVV, Mudar a Justiça Administrativa e Fiscal, Almedina: Coimbra, 2013
ALMEIDA, Mário Aroso, “As implicações de direito substantivo da reforma do contencioso administrativo”, Cadernos de Justiça Administrativa, 2002
ALMEIDA, Mário Aroso, Manual de Processo Administrativo, Almedina: Coimbra, 2022
ANDRADE, José Carlos Vieira – A Justiça Administrativa. 19.a ed. Coimbra : Almedina, 2021
ANDRADE, José Carlos Vieira, “Em defesa do recurso hierárquico”, Cadernos de Justiça Administrativa, n.º 0, 1996
FONSECA, Isabel Celeste, “Repensar as impugnações administrativas entre a efectividade do processo e a unidade da acção administrativa”, Cadernos de Justiça Administrativa, n.º 82, 2010
OLIVEIRA, António Cândido, “O “silêncio” e a “última palavra” da Administração Pública”, Cadernos de Justiça Administrativa, n.º 19, 2000
SILVA, Vasco Pereira, O Contencioso Administrativo no Divã da Psicanálise – Ensaio sobre as Acções no Novo Processo Administrativo, Almedina: Coimbra, 2013
