Unofficial summary in English. The judgment is published in Portuguese only, and only the Portuguese text is authentic.
Bom Preço Participações, Lda. lodged an extraordinary appeal on grounds of unconstitutionality against a Supreme Court judgment upholding the rejection of its objection to enforcement of a customs debt it claimed was time-barred, alleging lack of reasoning and breach of the in dubio pro reo principle and legal certainty. In its reasoning, the Court found no breach of the Constitution, since only a peremptory defence was at issue and the Civil Code applied subsidiarily; the published operative part is missing.
Decision
Appeal dismissed (inferred from the reasoning; operative part missing)
Type of proceedings
Extraordinary appeal on grounds of unconstitutionality (Recurso Extraordinário de Inconstitucionalidade)
Full text
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