Revision of the Rules of Procedure in the Administrative Courts

Editorial

Abstract

It is to the legislative and institutional framework established by the adoption and entry into force, in 2002–2004, of the Statute of the Administrative and Tax Courts and the Code of Procedure in the Administrative Courts, and by the substantial expansion of the network of administrative courts (and judges), that the Portuguese legal community has, quite rightly, the label of ‘Reform of Administrative Litigation’, a moment from which the Portuguese administrative procedural subsystem finally gave concrete form – at least in legislative terms – to the constitutional imperative of effective judicial protection.