Unofficial summary in English. The judgment is published in Portuguese only, and only the Portuguese text is authentic.
The appellant, convicted of bodily harm, had his appeal rejected for failure to file submissions and lodged a complaint with the Luanda Court of Appeal, which dismissed it; he invoked the right to appeal and the application of the more favourable procedural law. The Court dismissed the appeal, holding that a complaint lies only against non-admission or retention of an appeal and that he should have lodged an ordinary appeal, so the right to two levels of jurisdiction and the right to appeal were not breached.
Decision
Appeal dismissed
Type of proceedings
Extraordinary appeal on grounds of unconstitutionality (Recurso Extraordinário de Inconstitucionalidade)
Full text
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