This report is published by the OECD Public Governance Directorate under the guidance of Marcos Bonturi, Director, and Irène Hors, Deputy Director. It was produced as part of the OECD work programme on Equal Access to Justice led by Tatyana Teplova, Head of Unit, Gender, Justice and Inclusiveness, and co-ordinated by Chloé Lelièvre, Justice Policy Analyst, OECD Public Governance Directorate.
The strategic guidance on the preparations of this report was provided by Irène Hors and Tatyana Teplova. Principal authors of this report are Francisco Cardona, international expert; Reza Lahidji, Partner, Menon Economics; Tatyana Teplova; Paula Fernando, Partner, Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra; Theresa Yurkewich and Chloé Lelièvre.
The OECD would like to thank the Government of Portugal, in particular the Ministry of Justice, for support in this project. Special thanks are due to Anabela Pedroso, State Secretary of Justice of Portugal for her leadership and dedicated work. Likewise, the authors are grateful for the views of Ministry of Justice experts, not least Pedro Tavares, Carolina Berto, Hugo Nunes, advisors to the State Secretary of Justice; Fátima Reis Silva, advisor to the Minister of Justice; and Miguel Romão, Director-General, Justice Policy, Portugal.
The content of the various chapters benefitted from research, comments and written input provided by Martyna Wanat, Policy Analyst, OECD Public Governance Directorate, and Luis Roman Arciniega Gil, Junior Researcher, University of Lille.
Logistical assistance was provided by Cicely Dupont-Nivore and editing by Eleonore Morena.