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as well as with the formulation of legal doctrine, and assesses if whether or not it represents an evolution towards a greater protection of the best interests of the child.
Intelligence Services’ access to traffic data in the light
of the fundamental right to inviolability of communications António Manuel Abrantes
Guest lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the Portuguese Catholic University in Lisbon PhD law student
The purpose of this article is to examine whether the recent legal fra- mework established by the Organic Law No. 4/2017 and aimed at gover- ning the Intelligence Services’ access to traffic data generated by private communications, is compatible with the fundamental right to inviolability of communications enshrined in Article 34 (4) of the Portuguese Consti- tution. To this effect, to begin with, the article briefly summarizes the rea- sons why the Constitutional Court has ruled that an earlier version of this framework was unconstitutional. Secondly, it assesses whether the pro- blems related to the constitutionality identified by that Court have been solved in the version currently in force.
Informal care provided to the dependent older people: expansion of a new area of law
Maria Amélia Ribeiro
Appeal Court Judge
It is recognized that population ageing is the “biggest social and economic challenge facing modern societies”.
Due to the dimension and the quick spread of this phenomenon – wor- sened in the case of dependent people –, not only has it become a priority