Poland was wrong to ban a Gay Pride parade
The European
Court of Human Rights in a unanimous judgment 3 May 2007 condemned Poland
for violating the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights
and Fudamental Freedoms.Warsaw authorities in 2005 banned a Gay
Pride parade and several stand still assemblies in connection with that.
The European Court found that Poland... 070504
|
[More]
|
 |
Family Law – Marriage
The special commissioner for
consideration of the possibility of making marriage available to same-sex
couples presented his report to the Minister for Justice 21 March 2007.
The report contains proposals for a draft bill amending the Swedish
Marriage Code, making it gender neutral. In his report the commissioner
also proposes the repeal... 070321
|
[More]
|
|
Goods and Services – Health Care – Dental Care – Harassment - Settlement
A
woman complained of being harassed by a dentist whom she had consulted in
a case of urgent dental care. According to the woman, the dentist insisted
on asking her intimate questions about her private life and regarding the
sexual practices of gays and lesbians in general. Allegedly, he also made
a number of derogatory remarks. The dentist... 070225
|
[More]
|
|
Legal Parenthood – Family Law – Adoption – Assisted Procreation
The
Court of Appeal reversed the district court’s ruling to deny an
application for second parent adoption from the female registered partner
of a woman giving birth to a child after assisted procreation carried out
in Finland using sperm from an anonymous donor in Denmark. The Court
allowed the adoption saying that it would be in... 070209
|
[More]
|
|
Gender Identity – Gender Reassignment – Divorce – Sterilisation
The Swedish Government has decided to commission a special
investigator to revise the Determination of Gender Identity Act (1972:119)
[lagen om fastställande av könstillhörighet i vissa fall]. The task
includes looking at whether the conditions for legal recognition of the
new gender are valid or should be amended. The conditions... 070129
|
[More]
|
|
Marriage – Civil Union – Registered Partnership – Registration –
Registrars
The Swedish Parliament has passed an Act amending
the Marriage Code and the Registered Partnership Act in order to merge the
offices of registrar of marriage and civil union (registered partnership)
respectively into one single office. The amendments took effect 15 April
2006.(Act of Parliament (2006:212) amending the Marriage ... 061215
|
[More]
|
|
Marriage – Civil Union – Registration
The
Swedish Government has adopted a Bill for an Act of Parliament amending
the Marriage Code and the Registered Partnership Act in order to merge the
offices of registrar of marriage and civil union (registered partnership)
respectively into one single office. The amendments would take effect 15
April 2006.(Government Decision... 061215
|
[More]
|
|
Legal Parenthood – Family Law – Adoption – Assisted Procreation
The
registered partner of a woman giving birth to child after assisted
procreation carried out in Denmark, using an anonymous donor wanted to
adopt her partner’s child making both partners legal parents. The Court
denied the application, saying that the use of an anonymous donor had not
been possible if the assisted procreation had... 061214
|
[More]
|
|
Civil Status – Marriage – Registered Partnership – Civil Union –
Private International Law – Recognition
A County
administrative court has upheld the decision of a local tax authority
civil registration officer, denying recognition of a marriage celebrated
in Canada between two persons of the same sex for the purposes of
registration in the Swedish national population registry. The couple’s
civil status was instead registered as registered... 060823
|
[More]
|
|
Marriage – Civil Union – Registered Partnership – Registration –
Registrars
The Swedish Parliament has passed an Act amending
the Registered Partnership Act and the Marriage Code in order to merge the
offices of registrar of civil union (registered partnership) and marriage
respectively into one single office. The amendments took effect 15 April
2006.(Act of Parliament (2006:213) amending the Registered... 060415
|
[More]
|
|
Aliens Act – Asylum law – Refugee Convention
The
Swedish Parliament has passed and Act amending Chapter 4 Section 1 and 2
of the Aliens Act, thus explicitly including sexual orientation as a
ground for claiming refugee status in accordance with the Refugee
Convention, under the Act. The amendment takes effect 31 March 2006. It is
however not expected to have any direct effect on... 060331
|
[More]
|
|
Goods and Services – Health Care – Parenting – Assisted Procreation
The
Swedish Parliament has passed several pieces of legislation which,
effective 1 July 2005, will allow for access of lesbian couples to
assisted procreation within the public health care system. For children
born after such treatment the partner of the birth-mother will be
considered the child’s second legal parent. For children... 050701
|
[More]
|
|
Manslaughter
Two men (G and N) got into conversation in a bar and decided to go to G’s home, where they were going to continue to drink beer. G alleged that he was subsequently subjected to sexual assault by N, but that he defended himself with a knife. G stabbed N sixty times and, as a result N died.
G was sentenced for manslaughter... 030326
|
[More]
|
|
Homosexuals – Adoption – Judicial review
A homosexual couple in Sweden adopted a newly-born girl in the United States in 1998. The adoption was in accordance with US legislation, and the American authorities had considered that the men were suitable adoptive parents. In August 1998, the couple applied to the Swedish National Board for Intercountry Adoptions (NIA) for approval... 021206
|
[More]
|
|
Grave unlawful coercion
Application of Chapter 4, Section 4 a, of the Swedish Penal Code
Two men were living together for more than a year in circumstances resembling marriage. During this period, one of the men assaulted and threatened the other, for example by means of blows to the face, blows and kicks directed at other parts of the body, pressing... 020719
|
[More]
|
|
Molestation
Three women were sentenced by the Östersund District Court for molestation on the grounds that they had made insulting gestures to a lesbian couple on several occasions. The three women were ordered to pay damages amounting to SEK 3,000 to each of the two women concerned.
(Östersund District Court, 7 June 2001, Case... 010607
|
[More]
|
|
Murder and serious theft
J and M were standing waiting for a tram. A third person, Ö, came up and started talking to them and they decided to go and drink beer together. When they were standing on the street drinking beer, Ö said he was bisexual and he made advances to J. According to J, he became very angry with Ö and decided that he was going harm... 000925
|
[More]
|
|
Disturbance of a public assembly
D disturbed a Swedish Missionary Society [Congregationalist] religious service by walking up to the pulpit and holding up a banner displaying a text which included the words “Lesbianism is a sin”. D is also supposed to have said, in this context, that it was sinful for a congregation to have a homosexual pastor. D was repeatedly... 000413
|
[More]
|
|
Disorderly conduct
When actors who had participated in making a film called “Fucking Åmål” were autographing video cassettes at a department store in Stockholm, the proceedings were disturbed by a man who wanted to preach that “homosexuality is a sin”. According to the security personnel, he made a great deal of noise. The... 000330
|
[More]
|
