Paulo Farinha Alves in declarations to the Expresso on crimes from defamation and insults

Paulo Farinha Alves, PLMJ Partner with the Firm’s Litigation Practice and a specialist in Criminal Law was one of the Lawyers whose opinion the Expresso wanted to hear within the article” I suit, you suit he she it suits“, published in the newspaper’s last edition, on the procedures for defamation and insults which are particularly fertile in the so called “business world”, and on the fact that the slowness in its judicial appreciation was the cause for most of the these actions be settled by out-of-court agreements between the parties in conflict.

According to Paulo Farinha Alves, «Time colds hearts and turn conflict into cost, the lack of answer, specially from criminal courts, has turned “formal excuses” into an usual means of settling these conflicts».