Criminal Procedure Law II

Presentation

The aim is to provide students with the necessary foundations and the ability, through the mastery of the normative discipline of criminal procedural law and related principles, to understand the tension between the purposes of criminal procedural law and the rights, freedoms and guarantees of the citizen.

Programme

Law

Level of Qualification|Semesters|ECTS

| Semestral | 6

Year | Type of course unit | Language

4 |Mandatory |Português

Code

ULP288-7360

Recommended complementary curricular units

Criminal Procedure Law II

Professional Internship

Não

Syllabus

I. Procedural acts and their devaluation

1. Form of acts

2. Time for action

3. Communication of acts

4. Devaluation of acts

II. Evidence in criminal proceedings

Introductory remarks

2.Means of proof

3. means of taking evidence

4. Prohibited evidence

III. Enforcement and asset security measures

1. coercive measures 

2. Asset security measures

IV. The resources

1. Ordinary resources

2. Extraordinary resources

V. The victim in criminal proceedings

1. The status of the victim

2. Criminal mediation

Objectives

The aim is to transmit and deepen knowledge of the general frameworks of criminal procedural law, both in theory and in practice.

Teaching methodologies and assessment

The teaching of the unit is developed through a theoretical and practical methodology. The exposure of content is crossed by the presentation of practical examples in the form of cases as a starting point for the autonomous research of the student and for the exploration of the theoretical content itself in a constant dialogue between the theoretical ballast of content and practical cases presented to students. 

As for the evaluation methodologies, the students have at their disposal the continuous evaluation , which besides a written evaluation test (frequency), with a 50% weighting, includes a mini-test subordinated to one of the themes of the programme, and an oral test (together with 50%). Students will also have access to a recurring test of continuous assessment, and the tests with 8 and 9 marks will have a compulsory oral test.

References

AA. VV., Código de Processo Penal Comentado, Coimbra: Almedina, 2014;

ANTUNES, Maria João, Direito Processual Penal, Coimbra:Almedina (última edição disponível); 

ANDRADE, Manuel da Costa, Sobre as Proibições de Prova, Reimp., Coimbra: Coimbra Editora, 2013

CORREIA, João Conde, Contributo para a Análise da Inexistência e das Nulidades Processuais Penais, Coimbra: Coimbra Editora, 1999

GODINHO, Inês Fernandes, Direito Processual Penal II - Tópicos de Estido, polic., 2020

MENDES, Paulo de Sousa, Lições de Direito Processual Penal, Reimp., Coimbra: Almedina (última edição disponível); 

MONTE, Mário Ferreira, Segredo e Publicidade na Justiça Penal, Coimbra: Almedina, 2018

SILVA, Germano Marques da, Direito Processual Penal Português, Vols. I a III, Lisboa: UCE (última edição disponível).

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