Civil Procedure Law

Introduction to the Study of Law, General Theory of Civil Law.

Classes will be taught with exposure of theoretical knowledge and with a strong component of solving practical situations.

Provide students with mastery of key concepts of declaratory civil procedural law, with particular emphasis on the structuring principles of the process, the bases of judicial organization, procedural assumptions and procedural dynamics.

Skills to develop:

a) Apprehend the key concepts of declarative civil procedure;

b) Knowledge of the judicial organization, procedural assumptions and the dynamics of declaratory action.

c) identify the legislation applicable to each specific situation.

I – General notions
1. Notion of civil procedural law
2. Structuring principles
3. Types of actions
4. Precautionary procedures

II – Forms of the process
1. Common process and special processes
2. Voluntary Jurisdiction Processes
3. Common process: declaratory process and enforcement process
4. Forms of common process

III – Procedural assumptions
1. Judicial personality
2. Judicial capacity
3. Legitimacy of the parties
4. Procedural interest
5. Judicial sponsorship
6. Jurisdiction of the courts

IV – Access to law and courts
1. Objectives and recipients
2. Modalities

V – Formalism of the declarative process
1. Process phases
2. Articulated
3. Initial petition and subsequent acts
4. Contestation
5. Replica
6. Supervening pleadings
7. Sanitation and condensation
8. Prior hearing
9. Sanitation dispatch
10. Instruction
11. Evidence
12. Types of evidence
13. Final Hearing: Discussion and Judgment
14. Decision on the matter of fact.
15. Discussion of the legal aspect of the case
16. Sentence
17. Effects of the sentence
18. Resources
19. Judged case

NAO

Bibliografia base:

– FREITAS, José Lebre, Introdução ao Processo Civil – Conceito e Princípios Gerais à luz do novo Código, Gestlegal, 2019

– FREITAS, José Lebre/ALEXANDRE, Isabel, Código de Processo Civil – Anotado, vol I, II e III, Almedina, 2018, 2019, 2022

– PIMENTA, Paulo, Processo Civil Declarativo, Almedina, 2020

Bibliografia complementar:

– AAVV, Presente e Futuro do Processo Civil, Gestlegal, 2023

– AAVV,  Código de Processo Civil Anotado Vol. I- Parte Geral e Ação Declarativa – 2ª Edição, Almedina, 2022

– ALMEIDA, Francisco Manuel Lucas Ferreira, Direito Processual Civil, vol. I, 2019

– AMARAL, José Augusto Pais, Direito Processual Civil, Almedina, 2019.

– CARVALHO, José Henrique Delgado, A Fase da Condensação no Processo Declarativo (à luz da Lei n.º 41/2013, de 26 de junho) – Os temas da prova, Quid Iuris, 2015