The Councils

The Ethics Council was created, by means of the bylaws, when APA was created and started its activity, under the presidency of the Chairman of the Portuguese Bar Association António Pires de Lima, on 10 December 2006. The Council is presided by Agostinho Pereira de Miranda since 2008. The main goal of the Ethics Council consists in discussing, preparing and disclosing the best practices in r...

Created by decision of the Board and presided since 5 November 2009 by Rui Pinto Duarte, the Council for Commercial Arbitration Practice started its activity on 14 February 2007, with José Miguel Júdice as delegate of the Board and furthermore consisting of the Members António Pires de Lima, António Pinto Cardoso, José Pires Machado, José Lebre de Freitas, Bernardo Ayala, Ricardo Guima...

The Council for Public Law Arbitration initiated its activity in December 2010, and is currently presided, since July 2017, by Rui Medeiros. The Council aims to stimulate the reflection and the debate, in particular by organizing open meetings and colloquiums on relevant arbitral practice topics, whether regarding administrative arbitration, or regarding tax arbitration.

The Investment Arbitration Council was created in 2012. The purpose of the Investment Arbitration Council is to give information regarding the existence, the importance and characteristics that make investment arbitration unique.  In order to achieve its purpose, the Investment Arbitration Council organizes and gives access to useful information regarding investment arbitration (Conventions, ...

Created by decision of the Board on 26 September 2011, the Sub-40 Council intends to encompass the younger members of APA (those under 40 years of age) and to promote initiatives that are specifically directed at them.

Considering that estimates indicate that the sports industry is responsible for between 3 to 6 percent of total world trade, it should come as no surprise that it is also an important source of legal disputes. With particular interest to the arbitral community, we can assume that arbitration is now firmly established as the method for resolving many of these disputes in the sports industry, with...

Cláusula compromissória–modelo para arbitragem societária ad hoc Consulte aqui. ____________________   Questões/Respostas sobre arbitragem societária Consulte aqui.

A arbitragem de consumo, em Portugal, assenta sobretudo em estruturas institucionalizadas, os centros de arbitragem de conflitos de consumo. Estes centros, cuja instalação depende de autorização do Ministro da Justiça (Decreto-Lei n.º 425/86, de 27 de dezembro) e de audição prévia da Direção-Geral do Consumidor (Lei n.º 144/2015, de 8 de setembro), têm procedimentos e árbitros própri...

O Conselho de Arbitragem Tributária inicia a sua atividade em janeiro de 2023, sendo presidido por Ana Paula Dourado e tendo como membros José Almeida Fernandes e Rita Correia da Cunha.  O Conselho de Arbitragem Tributária introduz  um espaço de reflexão e de debate alargado e apresenta as seguintes linhas de análise: Encontros-Diálogos entre árbitros comerciais e árbitros fiscais para int...