Unofficial summary in English. The judgment is published in Portuguese only, and only the Portuguese text is authentic.
Svenska Petroleum Exploration AB appealed against a Supreme Court judgment which, through corrective interpretation, gave the Tax and Customs Chamber of the Luanda Provincial Court jurisdiction over a challenge to a Petroleum Income Tax decision, invoking the principles of legality and separation of powers. In its reasoning the Court found no illegality or unconstitutionality; the operative part is missing from the published text.
Decision
Appeal dismissed (operative part missing)
Type of proceedings
Extraordinary appeal on grounds of unconstitutionality (Recurso Extraordinário de Inconstitucionalidade)
Full text
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