Clearly it's a system which puts people's freedom to libel over people's right not to be libelled so it's a fact is it not?
It's not clear to me. In fact as I understand it Portugal had a tradition of prioritising people's right to honour over freedom of speech and had been penalised for it in the past.
I offer my evidence and look forward to seeing yours upholding your statement. You couldn't be basing your opinion on just one case, could you?
"it is important to know how the Superior Courts fall and solve the conflict between the contemplated rights, starting with the ECHR, of which the jurisprudence is particularly industrious and interesting in this matter.
From this same jurisprudence one retains that
in contrast to the traditional current of the Portuguese higher courts, this court does not accept, in principle, the priority of the right to honour and good over the freedom of expression/freedom of the press..."http://miscarriageofjustice.co/index.php?topic=7937.msg383228#msg383228Teixeira da Mota:
Portuguese courts traditionally placed a high value on the rights to honour and reputation and considered freedom of expression a second-class freedom compared to those rights. Even today there remains in many cases a tendency to place too much value on the words, image, and reputation of powerful figures when weighed against critical opinions about those figures. Courts continue, at times, to not distinguish between assertions of fact and value judgments, which obviously ends up harming freedom of expression.
https://ipi.media/portuguese-defamation-laws-still-reflect-authoritarian-concept-of-power-expert-says/