On 23 May 2024, José Luís da Cruz Vilaça, managing partner of CVA, took part in the workshop "Estarão os tribunais superiores a assegurar os direitos fundamentais?", organised by the Lisbon Public Law Research Centre and the EUI Centre for Judicial Cooperation. The aim of this initiative is to debate the role of top national courts in guaranteeing the standards of protection of fundamental rights required by the European Union acquis as an essential element of the rule of law.

This workshop is part of the European Commission-funded project "TRIIAL 2 - Trust, Independence, Impartiality and Accountability of Legal Professionals under the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights", which offers training activities and tools for judges, lawyers and prosecutors on the rule of law, mutual trust, judicial independence, impartiality and accountability.

José Luís da Cruz Vilaça took part in the second panel, entitled "The top-down perspective: the view from the Court of Justice of the EU and from the European Court of Human Rights", together with three other speakers, Maria José Rangel de Mesquita, Patrícia Fragoso Martins and Tiago Antunes.

More information here.