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Child Abuse Verdict Held Back By MS Word Glitch
An anonymous reader writes "Last week several defendants including one high-profile TV presenter were sentenced in Portugal in what has been known as the Casa Pia scandal. The judges delivered on September 3 a summary of the 2000-page verdict, which would be disclosed in full only three days later. The disclosure of the full verdict has been postponed from September 8 to a yet-to-be-announced date, allegedly because the full document was written in several MS Word files which, when merged together, retained 'computer related annotations which should not be present in any legal document.' (Google translated article.) Microsoft specialists were called in to help the judges sort out the 'text formatting glitch,' while the defendants and their lawyers eagerly wait to access the full text of the verdict."
No. Time for appeal will start counting from the moment the document is (evetually...) handed out.
No. The limit for appeal only start counting when the complete verdict is delivered to the convicts and their layers. Until then, it's extra time.
The important question is:
Will this affect the deadline for appeal?
No, the deadline date to file the appeal will only be set when the complete veridict is handed to the court administrative staff and is available to be picked up by the laywers.