In summary proceedings with a collective tribunal, the district judge, not the collective tribunal president, decides the final outcome.

The Tribunal da Relação do Porto declared that the district judge, rather than the collective tribunal president, must issue the final decision in summary proceedings where the factual matter was already adjudicated. The plaintiff argued that the collective tribunal president lacked authority to finalize the case after the facts were judged by the collective body. The court ruled that since the tribunal de círculo was not yet established, jurisdiction for the final decision rested exclusively with the district judge under the relevant procedural laws.