Judicial Costs

Constitutional Law

Civil Procedure Law

Teaching classes, using the applicable law.

This Course aims do allow the student to know the portuguese judicial costs system, and it’s differences
by procedure, as well as the rules in establishing the responsabilty for such costs.

A. GENERALITIES
V. Introduction
VI. Judicial costs
a. Notion of judicial costs
b. Initial costs
c. Expenses
d. Litigant’s expenses
e. Other examples
VII. Responsibility for the costs
a. Rules of responsibility for the costs: a general overview
b. General rule for the responsibility of costs
c. Rules regarding multiple litigants
d. Responsibility of the plaintiff for the costs
e. Plural-responsibility for the costs
f. Costs in confession, withdrawal or agreement
g. Costs due by the subsidiary plaintiff
h. Special cases: the tutor and administrator
VIII. Illicit pleading
a. Concept
b. Requirements
c. Illicit pleading by the lawyer
d. Penalties
e. Other sanctions
B. THE JUDICIAL COSTS REGULATION
VII. General overview
VIII. Costs in civil procedure law
IX. Costs in executive procedure
X. Cost in penal procedures
XI. Costs in administrative procedure
XII. Accounts

C. LEGAL AID

NAO

. Amaral, Jorge Augusto Pais de – Direito Processual Civil, Edições Almedina, Coimbra, 2019;
• Chiovenda, Jose – Principios de Derecho Procesal Civil (trad. de José Casais Y Santaló), Reus, Madrid,
2000;
• Costa, Salvador da; Costa, Teresa da – Regulamento das Custas Processuais, 14ª Edição, Edições
Almedina, Coimbra, 2020;

. Costa, Salvador da – As Custas Processuais, 7ª Edição, Edições Almedina, Coimbra, 2018;

• Soares, Fernando Luso – A Responsabilidade Processual Civil, Edições Almedina, Coimbra, 1987.