

Education
Institution (Date from - Date to) |
Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained: |
Centre of Judicial Studies (1991 - 1993) |
Judge |
Law School - University of Coimbra (1985 - 1990) |
Degree in Law |
Present position: Judge, trainer, and traineeship coordinator and mentor
Years within the firm: Judge since 1993.
Key qualifications: a Law Judge since 1993 with experience in several areas (criminal, civil, family, employment, law). Moreover, I have important experience in criminal law and criminal court, being responsible for jurisdictional functions concerning investigations in the field of terrorist crime, drug trafficking, money laundering, corruption, economic and financial crimes, both at the national and international level. Also in the training area, I have been working with the Portuguese Centre for Judicial Studies since 2006, and I have been a Judge mentor for Judges from foreign developing countries, having international experience in Asia and Africa countries, namely East-Timor and Guinea-Bissau. In the first case, participating in a United Nations programme for reinforcement of the judicial system and, in the second, in an European Union funded project aiming the reinforcement of State of Law. In East-Timor, I was Interim President of the Court of Appeal.
Specific experience regionally
Country |
Date from - Date to |
East-Timor |
2006 - 2009 |
Guinea-Bissau |
2009 - 2010 |
Professional experience
Date from - Date to |
Location |
|
Position |
Description |
1990 -1991 |
Lisbon |
Lawyer society |
Traineeship as Laywer |
|
1991 |
Funchal |
City Council of Funchal |
Legal Advisor |
|
1993 - 1997 |
Funchal |
Portuguese State |
Judge of Court of Generic Competences |
|
1997- 1999 |
Funchal |
Portuguese State |
Judge of Employment Tribunal |
|
1999 - 2000 |
Lisbon |
Portuguese State |
Judge of Civil Court |
|
2000 - 2002 |
Funchal |
Portuguese State |
Judge of Civil and Criminal Court |
|
2002 - 2003 |
Lisbon |
Portuguese State |
Judge of Family Court and of Civil Court |
|
2003 - 2005 |
Lisbon |
Portuguese State |
Judge specialized in criminal and civil law |
|
2005 - 2006 |
Lisbon |
Portuguese State |
Judge of criminal evidence in The Central Court of Criminal Evidence |
|
2006 - 2008 |
East-Timor |
United Nations (Programme for Reinforcement of the Judicial System) |
Judge in District Courts of East-Timor |
|
2008 - 2009 |
East-Timor |
United Nations (Programme for Reinforcement of the Judicial System) |
Judge of Supreme Court |
|
2009 - 2010 |
Guinea-Bissau |
EU (PAOSED - Programme for Supporting the Sovereignty Organs and the Rule of Law) |
Mentor Judge for criminal law |
|
2009 - on going |
Lisbon |
Portuguese State |
Judge specialized in criminal law |
|
2010 |
Lisbon |
EU (PAOSED - Programme for Supporting the Sovereignty Organs and the Rule of Law) |
Mentor Judge for criminal law |
|
2010 |
Lisbon |
|
Judicial coordinator and mentor for a traineeship in Portugal, aimed at Judges from East-Timor |
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