The Government is considering the «creation of a delegation of the Court of Appeal of Évora in the Algarve». This was the response of Francisca Van Dunem, Minister of Justice, to a question by Ofélia Ramos, an Algarvian deputy of the PSD, on the need to create the Court of Appeal of Faro.
This structure, despite having been created by decree-law, was never installed.
Now, the minister said that the idea is to create this delegation of the Court of Appeal of Évora, in Faro, «however, it is not known for when, due to lack of resources», according to reports by Ofélia Ramos, deputy of the PSD.
For the Algarve parliamentarian, this answer “does not serve the interests of the Algarve”.
According to the deputy, «the country's financial recovery, after the European Union's financial assistance to Portugal, allows the installation of the Court of Appeal of Faro».
Ofélia Ramos argues that the Algarve «cannot give up on the Court of Appeal of Faro, for the importance that this equipment represents for the better functioning of justice in the Algarve».
According to the deputy, «1/3 of the cases that are judged in Évora» come from the Algarve courts.
«The distance between Évora and the Algarve – without a public transport network that allows for a round trip on the same day – makes it impossible for lawyers and witnesses to travel from the Algarve to Évora, in situations of renewal of certain means of evidence and even the production of new evidence by the Court of Appeal', he concludes.
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