The Deontological Council of Évora of the Portuguese Bar Association (TO) applied the sentence of six years of suspension to the lawyer CecÃlia Palma, which has suspended OA registration. The lawyer was convicted by the Court of Mértola in two criminal proceedings.
The notice of the AO/ Évora Deontological Council is posted at the Judicial Court of the District of Beja, where did you check in last day 23 June, mirroring the disciplinary sanction that sentenced her to “suspend her practice of law for a period of six years, to comply with the lifting of the suspension of their membership in the Bar".
CecÃlia Palma was convicted twice, in 2020 and 2011, but continued to exercise functions, having only filed as a request for suspension of duties in 28 January 2014, having subsequently been convicted by the Bar Association. The disciplinary sanction of the six-year suspension only takes effect after the lawyer has lifted the suspension of enrollment in the AO.
Remember that the lawyer, natural Mértola, was sentenced to two prison terms in two criminal proceedings for falsifying documents. She continued to practice her profession while still active in the Évora district council of the Portuguese Bar Association (OA).
CecÃlia Palma was sentenced in October 2010 by the Collective of Judges of the Court of Mértola to a penalty of three years of effective imprisonment for allegedly having falsified four certificates and a permit for the execution of notarial deeds. The lawyer appealed the decision to the Court of Appeal of Évora, which changed the cumulative penalty to the penalty of two years and ten months of imprisonment, the execution of which is suspended for an equal period.
A 21 December 2011, the lawyer was again convicted by the Court of Mértola, under another process, to one year and two months in prison for crimes of an identical nature, the sentence having been suspended. This time, she was accused of having falsified documents from the Ministry of Agriculture to obtain land detachment.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
