Colloquium
Body, Justice and Compensation

July 1st, 2010, CES-Lisboa/CIUL, Picoas Plaza, Rua Tomás Ribeiro, 65

Free entrance – Participants will receive a certificate of participation

 
Presentation
The Centre for Social Studies of University of Coimbra will organize, on July 1st, 2010, at the Auditorium of Centre for Urban Information of Lisbon, at Picoas Plaza, in Lisbon, a Colloquium dedicated to the subject “Body, Justice and Compensation”.

This Colloquium takes place under a research Project, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, with the scientific coordination of Professor Boaventura de Sousa Santos, with the central goal of discussing and questioning the different social-legal dimensions of compensation for personal injuries in Portuguese courts, especially in relation to work and road accidents.


Program

9H15 – 9H45 OPENING SESSION
Boaventura de Sousa Santos - CES, University of Coimbra
Alberto Martins – Minister for Justice

9H45 – 10H45 INITIAL PRESENTATION
Boaventura de Sousa Santos - CES, University of Coimbra

10H45 – 11H00 BREAK

11H00 – 13H30 COMPENSATIONS FOR PERSONAL INJURIES IN LAW AND COURT DECISIONS
Chair:
Conceição Gomes - CES, University of Coimbra

Speakers:
Antonieta Dias – Forensic Expert
José Augusto Ferreira da Silva – Attorney
José Igreja Matos - Judge
Viriato Reis - Public Prosecution Magistrate

Commentators:
Jorge Bacelar Gouveia - Social-Democrat Party (PSD)
Jorge Machado – Portuguese Communist Party (PCP)
Maria Aiveca – Left Block (BE)
Socialist Party (PS) representative*
Popular Party (PP) representative*

13H30 – 15H LUNCH

15H – 17H BEYOND COURTS: ACTORS AND DYNAMICS

Chair: Tiago Ribeiro - CES, University of Coimbra

Speakers:
Edmundo Martinho – Social Security Institute
Frederico Moyano Marques – Portuguese Association of Victim Support
Joaquim Dionísio – General Confederation of Portuguese Workers
Luís Fonseca – Association of Disabled Work Accident Victims
Manuel João Ramos – Association of Auto-Mobilized Citizens
Ricardo Pedrosa Gomes – Association of Construction, Public Works and Services Enterprises

17H – 17H15 BREAK

17H15 – 17H45 FINAL COMENTS
Speaker: Superior Court Judge Domingos Morais

17H45 – 18H30 DISCUSSION

18H30 CLOSING

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