Our lawyer’s take on this, fwiw…
"That unified case law is a decision by the Administrative Supreme Court that is primarily applicable to individuals already residing in Portugal on a permanent basis. What was established was that, in these cases, individuals are entitled to use the Special Law Suit. [based on urgent reasons and fundamental rights violations]
…if the preliminary rejection was because you do not reside permanently in Portugal… the unified case law is not clearly applicable.
If true, this new unified case law is actually bad news for most (non-permanent resident) GV applicants looking to use ‘urgency’ in a suit against AIMA. There are hints of this trend in the ‘Subpoenas’ point in this post.
Franz Kafka could certainly write another novel with this situation, yes 