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Portuguese court rules that when both solicitor and lawyer represent a party, all notifications must be served to the solicitor.

Case Number 044761
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Jurisdiction Portugal (PT)
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The Supreme Administrative Court of Portugal upheld the procedural requirement that notifications be served exclusively to the solicitor when both a solicitor and a lawyer represent the same party. The Municipality of Porto argued for this specific service method against Eduardo Gil & Co. LDA, relying on the explicit statutory language of the Civil Procedure Code. The court affirmed that the law mandates the solicitor as the sole recipient in such dual-representation scenarios to ensure proper legal notice.

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SOLICITADOR. ADVOGADO. REPRESENTAÇÃO EM JUÍZO. NOTIFICAÇÃO.

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dual representation solicitor priority notification service legal notice Civil Procedure Code Portuguese law procedural requirement

Cited Legislation

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Art. 253(3) of the Civil Procedure Code (CPC96)

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[AREA TEMATICA 1] DIR ADM CONT - ACTO. [AREA TEMATICA 2] DIR PROC CIV. [LEGISLACAO NACIONAL] CPC96 ART253 N3. [DATA DE ENTRADA] 03/17/1999 [Nº CONVENCIONAL] JSTA00055599 [Nº DO DOCUMENTO] SA120000412044761 [OBJECTO] SENT TAC PORTO. [RECORRENTE] MUNICÍPIO DO PORTO [RECORRIDO 1] EDUARDO GIL E COMP LDA [URL] https://www.dgsi.pt/jsta.nsf/35fbbbf22e1bb1e680256f8e003ea931/549CE656DD7D13EC80256AFB003EBDD0?OpenDocument

SUMÁRIO

De acordo com o preceituado no n.º 3 do art.º 253º do C.P.C., quando as partes estejam simultaneamente representados por advogados e por solicitador, as notificações que lhes devam ser feitas sê-lo-ão sempre na pessoa do solicitador.