{"id":2223,"date":"2022-09-27T16:13:54","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T16:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inclusivecourts.pt\/?p=2223"},"modified":"2022-09-27T16:13:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T16:13:54","slug":"tribunal-constitucional-acordao-n-o-962-96-11-07-1996","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inclusivecourts.pt\/en\/tribunal-constitucional-acordao-n-o-962-96-11-07-1996\/","title":{"rendered":"Constitutional Court, judgment no. 962\/96, 11.07.1996"},"content":{"rendered":"

LEGAL AID | RIGHT TO ASYLUM | PRINCIPLE OF ASSIMILATION OF FOREIGNERS AND STATELESS PERSONS TO PORTUGUESE CITIZENS | HUMAN DIGNITY<\/p>\n

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Constitutional Court, judgment no. 962\/96, 11.07.1996 <\/strong><\/p>\n

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JURISDICTION: Constitutional<\/p>\n

CASE: 361\/95<\/p>\n

SUBJECT: Constitutional review<\/p>\n

RAPPORTEUR: Assun\u00e7\u00e3o Esteves<\/p>\n

RULING: Declares the unconstitutionality, with general binding force, of the norms in Article 7(2) of Decree-Law no. 387-B\/87, of 29 December 1987, and Article 1(1)(2) of Decree-Law no. 391\/88, of 26 October 1988, where they deny legal aid, in the form of legal representation, to foreigners and stateless persons who wish to lodge a judicial appeal against the administrative decision which turns down their asylum application.<\/p>\n

DOMESTIC LAW:<\/p>\n

Portuguese Constitution [Articles 15, 20(1), 33(6), 268(4), 281(3)]<\/p>\n

Law no. 28\/82, of 15 November 1982 [Articles 54, 55(3), 82]<\/p>\n

Decree-Law no. 387-B\/87, of 29 December 1987 [Article 7(2)]<\/p>\n

Decree-Law no. 391\/88, of 26 October 1988 (Article 1)<\/p>\n

Constitutional Court, judgment no. 338\/95, 22.06.1995<\/p>\n

Constitutional Court, judgment no. 339\/95, 22.06.1995<\/p>\n

Constitutional Court, judgment no. 340\/95, 22.06.1995<\/p>\n

INTERNATIONAL LAW: n.a.<\/p>\n

FOREIGN LAW: n.a.<\/p>\n

PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Apoio judici\u00e1rio; direito de asilo; princ\u00edpio da equipara\u00e7\u00e3o de tratamento entre nacionais e estrangeiros e ap\u00e1tridas; dignidade do homem; estrangeiros; ap\u00e1tridas; asilo pol\u00edtico; autoriza\u00e7\u00e3o de resid\u00eancia v\u00e1lida em Portugal; acesso ao Direito e aos tribunais; universalmente garantida; perman\u00eancia regular e continuada em Portugal; desejabilidade constitucional de realiza\u00e7\u00e3o do direito de asilo; ideia de uma Rep\u00fablica de indiv\u00edduos e n\u00e3o apenas de cidad\u00e3os; efetividade do direito de asilo; insufici\u00eancia econ\u00f3mica; concretiza\u00e7\u00e3o do direito ao tribunal; ordem aberta \u00e0 dimens\u00e3o internacional dos direitos do homem; \u201ccidad\u00e3o do mundo\u201d; dimens\u00e3o universalista dos direitos do homem<\/p>\n

COMMENTS: Coming soon.<\/p>\n

REFERENCES IN THE LITERATURE:<\/p>\n

CANOTILHO, J.J. Gomes, e MOREIRA, Vital, Constitui\u00e7\u00e3o da Rep\u00fablica Portuguesa Anotada [Annotation to the Portuguese Constitution], vol. I, 4.\u00aa ed. revista, Coimbra, Coimbra Editora, 2007.<\/p>\n

MIRANDA, Jorge, and MEDEIROS, Rui, Constitui\u00e7\u00e3o Portuguesa Anotada [Annotation to the Portuguese Constitution], vol. I, 2nd ed., Coimbra, Wolters Kluwer\/Coimbra Editora, 2010.<\/p>\n

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APOIO JUDICI\u00c1RIO | DIREITO DE ASILO | PRINC\u00cdPIO DA EQUIPARA\u00c7\u00c3O DE TRATAMENTO ENTRE NACIONAIS E ESTRANGEIROS E AP\u00c1TRIDAS | DIGNIDADE DO HOMEM   Tribunal Constitucional, ac\u00f3rd\u00e3o n.\u00ba 962\/96, 11.07.1996 \u00a0 JURISDI\u00c7\u00c3O: Constitucional PROCESSO: 361\/95 ASSUNTO: Fiscaliza\u00e7\u00e3o abstrata da constitucionalidade JUIZ RELATOR: Assun\u00e7\u00e3o Esteves DECIS\u00c3O: Declara a inconstitucionalidade, com for\u00e7a obrigat\u00f3ria geral, das normas do artigo…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2445,2593,2446,2592],"tags":[2605,2596,2437,2448,2484,2461,2603,2599,2595,2606,2240,2601,2452,2600,2602,2604,2598,2594,2500,2597],"class_list":["post-2223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apoio-judiciario","category-dignidade-do-homem","category-direito-de-asilo","category-principio-da-equiparacao-de-tratamento-entre-nacionais-e-estrangeiros-e-apatridas","tag-cidadao-do-mundo","tag-acesso-ao-direito-e-aos-tribunais","tag-apatridas","tag-apoio-judiciario","tag-asilo-politico","tag-autorizacao-de-residencia-valida-em-portugal","tag-concretizacao-do-direito-ao-tribunal","tag-desejabilidade-constitucional-de-realizacao-do-direito-de-asilo","tag-dignidade-do-homem","tag-dimensao-universalista-dos-direitos-do-homem","tag-direito-de-asilo","tag-efetividade-do-direito-de-asilo","tag-estrangeiros","tag-ideia-de-uma-republica-de-individuos-e-nao-apenas-de-cidadaos","tag-insuficiencia-economica","tag-ordem-aberta-a-dimensao-internacional-dos-direitos-do-homem","tag-permanencia-regular-e-continuada-em-portugal","tag-principio-da-equiparacao-de-tratamento-entre-nacionais-e-estrangeiros-e-apatridas","tag-restricao-no-acesso-ao-direito-e-aos-tribunais","tag-universalmente-garantida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inclusivecourts.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inclusivecourts.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inclusivecourts.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inclusivecourts.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inclusivecourts.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inclusivecourts.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2224,"href":"https:\/\/inclusivecourts.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions\/2224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inclusivecourts.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inclusivecourts.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inclusivecourts.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inclusivecourts.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}