Revista Jurídica Portucalense

The plurality of blocks in a condominium and the condominium owners' diligence towards the builder

Gil MOREIRA DOS SANTOS — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

On the subject of a judgment - Pº 24620/15.1T9PRT- P1 of the 5th Chamber of the Court of Appeal of Porto, dated 08.04.2024 - in which the institutions of the forfeiture of the notice of defects in a construction contract relating to a condominium of four blocks, to be built in several phases, were discussed.

Harmonisation of contract law in the EU: Analysis of the process and its impact on the legal system of the Member States

Viktoriia ANATIICHUK, Iryna BANASEVYCH, Ruslana HEINTS, Uliana GRYSHKO — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The problem of differences between national legal systems in the global context necessitates the creation of new methods of harmonisation and unification of legislation, especially in light of the accelerating globalisation processes. In the context of global and European integration, it is becoming increasingly important to promote the diversity of jurisdictions and provide answers to the main questions regarding the development of uniform contract law to preserve the role of law as a regulator of social relations at the supranational level. The following methods were used in the study: legal modelling, inductive, deductive, dialectical, formal-logical, and synergistic, as well as methods of analysis and synthesis. The purpose of the article is to analyse the process of harmonisation of contract law in the European Union and to determine its impact on the legal system of the Member States.

Analysing the effectiveness of migrants’ protection and integration through the applicability of the European Union’s directive on long-term residents

Ana Filipa NEVES, Carlos NOLASCO — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In 2003, the EU approved a new regime of long-term residency of third-country nationals who, after having lived in a Member State for a minimum of five years, should enjoy equal rights as those of Member States citizens in a wide range of economic and social matters. Only in 2011, was this specific regime also applied to refugees. Two decades after its entry into force, it was time to analyse the impact of this legal avenue in the lives of long-term migrants living in Portugal. The analysis conducted systematised how this EU legislation was transposed into the Portuguese migration and asylum legal norms and how it became effective in ensuring migrants’ well-being in Portugal. To this end, the chosen qualitative methodology included the analysis of legal and other relevant texts and, also, the organisation and conduction of semi-structured interviews and focus groups with migrants who were long-term residents in Portugal, in 2021. Drawing on the participants’ opinions, the present paper aims to address the advantages and pitfalls of long-term residence status in order to ameliorate the first and surpass the latter, not losing sight of the end goal of ensuring migrants’ rights to protection and inclusion.