Criminal Procedural Law I
| Keywords |
| Classification |
Keyword |
| OFICIAL |
Law |
Instance: 2024/2025 - 1S (since 16-09-2024 to 20-12-2024) 
Cycles of Study/Courses
Teaching language
Portuguese
Obs.: Unidade curricular que exige o domínio seguro da língua portuguesa.
Objectives
- To provide students with the essential frameworks of the criminal procedural law;
- Identifying and understanding the various procedural models, their fundamental characteristics and their estrutural principles;
- Deepening theoretical and dogmatic foundations of the studied themes, as well as its projections in terms of legal regulations and jurisprudential solutions;
- Promoting a critical and autonomous reflection on central criminal procedure themes.
Learning outcomes and competences
Studentes should be able to:
- identify the essential frameworks of the criminal procedural law;
- understand the main procedural models
and identify their fundamental characteristics;
- have a thorough knowledge of the Portuguese criminal procedure model and its structuring principles;
- discuss critically the legal and jurisprudential solutions to the central problems of criminal procedure.
Working method
Presencial
Program
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE LAW
INTRODUCTORY NOTIONS
TITLE I
CAP. I - Theory of the Criminal Procedure Law. The Criminal Procedure Law and its implementation.
CAP. II - The Fundamental Structure of the Portuguese Criminal Procedure.
1.Constitutional conformation and Procedural Models.
2. General Principles on Criminal Procedure.
CAP. III - The different "roles" performed in the criminal process.
CAP. IV - The object of the process.
CAP. V - Coercive measures.
TITLE II
CAP. I - General form of the criminal procedure: its phases and characteristics.
CAP. II - Special forms of the criminal procedure.
CAP. III - Fundamental notions of the appeals system.
Mandatory literature
Dias Jorge de Figueiredo 1937-;
Direito processual penal
Maria João Antunes;
Direito processual penal. ISBN: 978-972-40-9149-5
Dias, Jorge de Figueiredo / Brandão, Nuno; Direito Processual penal: os sujeitos processuais, Gestlegal
Germano Marques da Silva; Curso de Processo Penal
AA. VV.; Comentário Judiciário do CPP
Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque; Comentário ao CPP à luz da CRP e da CEDH
Complementary Bibliography
Mendes, Paulo Sousa;
Lições de direito processual penal. ISBN: 9789724052052
Jornadas de Direito Processual Penal;
Jornadas de direito processual penal. ISBN: 972-40-0257-8
Comments from the literature
Complementary bibliography will be referred for each of the concrete topics.
Teaching methods and learning activities
Lectures: Presentation and analysis of the syllabus, using real examples to apply the concepts.
Practical sessions: Solving practical cases (hypothetical and based in case law); answering questions.
keywords
Social sciences > Juridical sciences > Criminal law
Evaluation Type
Distributed evaluation with final exam
Assessment Components
| Designation |
Weight (%) |
| Exame |
100,00 |
| Total: |
100,00 |
Amount of time allocated to each course unit
| Designation |
Time (hours) |
| Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico |
80,00 |
| Trabalho escrito |
80,00 |
| Total: |
160,00 |
Eligibility for exams
Not applicable.
Calculation formula of final grade
100% of the final mark depends on the written exam.
Examinations or Special Assignments
100% on the final written exam.
Internship work/project
Not applicable.
Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)
According to the rules enforced at FDUP.
Classification improvement
In accordance with the applicable internal regulation.