Joaquim Malafaia

Joaquim Malafaia dedicates himself to the practice of law, working in various areas of civil law, criminal law, criminal procedure, insolvency law, administrative offense law, and commercial law.

He holds a law degree from the International University of Lisbon and a Master's degree in Judicial Law (Procedural Law and Judicial Organization) from the School of Law of the University of Minho, and a postgraduate degree in "Economic and European Criminal Law" from the Institute. from the Department of Economic and European Criminal Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra, in "Business Law" at the International University of Figueira da Foz, in "Psychocriminal Studies" at the Faculty of Law of the Nova University of Lisbon.

He has published books, The Effects of Judicial Decisions on Criminal Proceedings, GESTLEGAL, 2017 and Practices of Criminal Procedure, Editora d'Ideias 2025 and several articles, “Bank Secrecy as a Limit to Criminal Investigation”, in ROA, Year 59, 1999, I, “Insolvency, bankruptcy "The crime of article 228 of the Penal Code", in RPCC, Year 11, issue 2, "The accusatory and the adversarial system in statements given in investigative acts and statements for future memory", in RPCC, Year 14, issue 4, "The unconstitutionality of paragraph 1 of article "Article 169 of the Penal Code" in RPCC, Year 19, Issue 1, "Language in Witness Testimony and the Free Assessment of Evidence in Criminal Proceedings", in RPCC, Year 20, Issue 4, "On the Admissibility of the Investigation and its Legal Inadmissibility", in Studies of Lawyers in Co Commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Court of Appeal of Coimbra, Almedina, “The obligation to hold a hearing on appeal before the Court of Appeal when requested by the defendant”, Newsletter of the Regional Council of Coimbra of the Bar Association, November 2021, vol. 15, Annotation to the Judgment of the Constitutional Court 616/2009 of December 2, 2009, Case No. 795/2009 - 3rd Section, in ROA, Year 71, III.

Delivered several lectures:

Conference on Sexual Crimes at the International University of Figueira da Foz, 17-05-2006, on Pimping, at the II Iberian Symposium on Road Safety, Higher School of Technology and Management of the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, 08-03-2019, on the crime of driving while inactive. Driving a vehicle while intoxicated or under the influence of narcotics, The Limits of Municipal Police in the Scope of Criminal Competencies, Municipal Police Conference, 7-06-2019, On "Media and Criminal Justice" at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Coimbra, Department Department of Philosophy, Communication and Information, Journalism and Communication course, 21-11-2019, Conference given under the joint organization of the Regional Councils of Coimbra, Lisbon, Azores, Porto, Évora, Faro of the Bar Association, online, on the exceptional regime [Regarding the flexibility of the execution of sentences and measures of clemency, on April 17, 2020, and the Conference at the International Colloquium Young Adults and Crime: the (dis)articulations between Society, Law and Criminal Justice, on May 16, 2022, at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra.] [P] Trainer in Criminal Procedure at the Coimbra Regional Council of the Bar Association since December 2, 2019.