This report was prepared by the Public Governance Directorate of the OECD under the leadership of Elsa Pilichowski, Director for Public Governance; and overall supervision of Tatyana Teplova, Senior Counsellor for Gender, Justice and Inclusiveness and Head of Division; Chloé Lelièvre, Head of Unit for Access to Justice; and Barbara-Chiara Ubaldi, Head of the Unit for Digital Government and Data.
The report was primarily co-ordinated by Mariane Piccinin Barbieri, policy analyst. The report benefitted from research, comments, and written input from a number of contributors. Geoffrey Mulherin and Paula Fernando drafted Chapters 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7, on legal needs, skills and service delivery in Portugal. Martin Gramatikov drafted Chapter 6, on justice data. Seong Ju Park and Mariane Piccinin Barbieri drafted Chapter 8 on digital transformation of justice. It includes written contributions and input from Daniela Piana, Monique Munarini, Cindy Boreillo and Renan Barbosa Fernandes. The team is also grateful to Maria Pascual Dapena, Irene de Noriega Quintanilla and Fabian Keske for contributions to the project. Andrea Uhrhammer, Melissa Sander and Clara Young provided editorial assistance. The legal needs survey in Portugal was carried out by Intercampus.
The OECD thanks the Australian Public Service Commission for acting as a peer reviewer of this report.
The OECD is deeply grateful to the Portuguese Ministry of Justice for their continued engagement and support in this project and to all the Portuguese institutions involved for their remarkable co-operation. In particular, the OECD gratefully acknowledges contributions from:
The Ministry of Justice: Jorge Alves Costa, Former Deputy State Secretary and for Justice; Pedro Tavares, Former State Secretary for Justice; Pedro Viana, Former Deputy to the Secretary of State for Justice; Pedro Lacerda, Tiago Cunha Martins and Filipa Lemos Caldas, Former Advisors to the State Secretaries for Justice; Maria do Carmo Ribeiro, Legal Advisor to the Office of the State Secretary for Justice; Pedro Almeida, Head of International Co-operation.
The Directorate-General for Justice Policy: Lídia Jacob, Director-General; Bruna Patrícia Ramos Costa, Sub-director General; Marta Moniz Faria Lobo San-Bento, Director of services for alternative dispute resolution; Carlos Alberto Nobre Gandarez, Head of unit of simplification and process analysis; Maria João Costa, Director of justice and informatics statistics services; Silvia Maria Rego Mendes Boto, Technical superior; Pedro Correia, Consultant.
The Justice Institute for Financial and Equipment Management: Maria Rosa Tobias Sá, President; Isabel Maria Mexia Esteves da Rosa, Vice-President; Vanda Isabel de Jesus Soares Simões, Director of the financial management department; Gonçalo José Semedo Ávila Trindade, member of board of directors; Henrique Pereira, Head of Project management unit; Flavio João Brandão do Carmo, Co-ordinator of Budget management unit.
The High Council of the Judiciary: Célia Santos, Judge, and all the other judges that have graciously accepted our request to participate in the project and have shared their knowledge and experience.
The Administrative and Tax Courts: Ana Pinhol, President of the administrative and tax courts of the south region.
The Ministry of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security: Joana Pereira, Specialist technician.
The Social Security Institute: Sandra Leitão, Director of Legal affairs and litigation.
The Centre for Judicial Studies: Fernando Vaz Ventura, Judge and Director.
The Integrated Victim Support Response (RIAV) of the Public Safety Police: Maria Aurora Marques Dantier, Commissioner.
The justices of the peace: Vitor Gomes, President of the Council and Judge; Amélia Saraiva, Cristina Eusébio and Luisa Soares, Judges of the Peace.
The Parish Boards National Association (ANAFRE): Olga Freire, Vice-president of the board; António Danado, Member of the board.
The Consumer Arbitration Centres: Fernando Viana, Director of CIAB and CNIACC; Joana Jerónimo Soares Correia, Director of Arbitrare.
The public mediation system: Lucinda Gomes, Lurdes Guerra and Maria João Castelo-Branco, Mediators.
The OECD also extends its sincerest thanks to the European Union for its financial contribution to the project through the Technical Support Instrument.