On 20 June last, the amendments to the Insolvency and Business Recovery Code introduced by Law 16/2012, of 20 April, came into force, which, among other things, set up a special debtor revitalisation process (PER for short) to comply with the goal established in the Memorandum between Portugal and the Troika with a view to…

Law 25/2012 was published on 16 July 2012 and governs advance directives on healthcare matters, particularly regarding the format of the living will. The Law provides that an advance healthcare directive is a unilateral document where a person of sound mind and legal age indicates in advance his or her conscious, free and informed intention…