"Changes to case distribution bring greater transparency to the system" (with José Jácome)

On the other hand, there are those who take a less optimistic view. This is the case of José Jácome, Partner at SRS Legal, who argues that the changes now introduced ‘will not change anything significant [and] were not necessary at all’. ‘They show that Portugal continues to legislate in response to the noise caused by isolated media cases that are not at all representative of the normal activity of the courts,’ he stresses.

Although the SRS Legal partner says that the most obvious effect of this type of change ‘is to turn the Code of Civil Procedure, which should be organised, short and clear, into a gigantic and chaotic patchwork quilt’, there are those who see the measures as signs of greater transparency and the possibility of scrutiny in the distribution of cases.