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Hovrätten

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Four fined for buying stolen clothes on the net

Science & Technology: 1 Mar 12
Four women who were convicted for buying what turned out to be stolen clothes on Swedish internet auction site Tradera lost their appeal on Wednesday as the court ruled the women should have known the low-priced clothes were stolen. READ »

Appeals court acquits Swedish 'exorcist'

Society: 10 Jan 12
A Swedish man sentenced to prison for abusing his wife through having her “exorcised” of evil spirits, has had his conviction thrown out on appeal. READ »

EU court comment 'positive' for file-sharers

Business & Money: 17 Nov 11
Comments from a European court official on a Swedish court case regarding the release of customer details by internet service providers should be welcome news for file-sharers, according to some Swedish researchers. READ »

Family torn apart after false sex abuse claims

National: 2 Nov 11
One call to social services was enough to land a Swedish couple behind bars and have their kids taken away for more than two months after an innocent situation was misinterpreted as sexual abuse. READ »

Swede acquitted in landmark S&M trial

National: 21 Sep 11
A Swedish appeals court on Wednesday acquitted a 33-year-old man charged with assault after violent sex with a teenager, in a case testing the limits of sexual violence permitted in Sweden between consenting partners. READ »

Stockholm mum acquitted of trafficking

National: 3 Jun 11
The 47-year-old Stockholm mum who last year was sentenced to prison after keeping Polish women under “slave-like conditions” was acquitted of the trafficking charges on Friday. READ »

'Walking a scooter while drunk is a crime': court

National: 14 Apr 11
Pedaling a scooter forward with your feet while inebriated constitutes drunken driving, Sweden's Supreme Court has ruled. READ »

Convictions overturned in Malmö pimping trial

National: 18 Feb 11
A Swedish appeals court has overturned guilty verdicts served to two men in connection with the sale of a mentally handicapped 14-year-old girl for sex, reducing a third man's sentence for pimping. READ »

Woman imprisoned after beating violent husband

Society: 30 Dec 10
A 50-year-old Swedish woman has been sentenced to six months imprisonment after using a knife to defend herself from attack by her abusive husband. READ »

Swedish mass murderer gets four more years

National: 21 Dec 10
Swedish mass murderer Mattias Flink, convicted of killing seven people, is set to be released in 2019 after the appeals court extended the term of his life sentence from 32 to 36 years. READ »

Anti-piracy law test case sent to EU court

National: 16 Sep 10
The first case tried since the passage of Sweden's anti-file sharing law in April 2009 is heading for the EU Court of Justice after a decision by the Supreme Court. READ »

Anti-piracy law test case 'on its way' to EU Court

Science & Technology: 4 Jun 10
The first case tried since the passage of Sweden's anti-file sharing law in April 2009 looks destined for the EU Court of Justice after a decision by the Supreme Court. READ »

TeliaSonera appeals anti-piracy ruling

Business & Money: 21 May 10
Swedish telecom firm TeliaSonera has announced its intention to appeal to the Supreme Court an anti-piracy law ruling ordering the firm to hand over the names and addresses of people behind a file sharing website. READ »

Pirate Bay judges ruled unbiased

Science & Technology: 12 May 10
The judges appointed to preside over the appeal of the four men found guilty in the Pirate Bay appeals hearing in September have been cleared from bias allegations, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday. READ »

Human trafficking pair imprisoned on appeal

National: 20 Mar 10
In the first case of its kind in Sweden, a Stockholm court has found two men guilty of human trafficking after they lured two teenage boys from their home in Romania to a life of crime. READ »

Bias allegations mount in Pirate Bay case

Science & Technology: 24 Sep 09
Two of the three judges in the Pirate Bay case are biased, according to the defence counsel, Per E. Samuelsson, in a new submission to the appeals court. READ »

Suspected double murderer remanded

National: 12 Jul 09
On Friday, a 23-year-old man suspected of murdering a couple near Båstad in southern Sweden in 2007 was remanded into custody after the court granted a retrial of the case. READ »

Girl receives damages for genital mutilation

National: 26 May 09
A 19-year-old girl in Gothenburg has been awarded compensation after having been subjected to genital mutilation in Somalia as an 11-year-old. READ »

Axe attack feud 'not as simple as it seems'

National: 18 May 09
A neighbourhood feud in northern Sweden has captivated the media for several years - the accepted story being that a Roma family terrorized a whole village. But new details suggest that the truth may be quite different. READ »

Pirate Bay lawyer calls for retrial

Society: 23 Apr 09
A lawyer representing one of the men convicted in the Pirate Bay trial has called for a retrial after reports that the judge was a member of the same copyright protection organisations as several of the main entertainment industry representatives. READ »

Fraudster plots murder to force lawyer change

Society: 7 Apr 09
A convicted fraudster has turned himself in for planning a murder in order to force a Stockholm court to appoint a new lawyer. He has also reported the court for complicity in his "plot". READ »

Arboga murderer: 'Sweden not governed by law'

Society: 1 Apr 09
Christine Schürrer, the German woman found guilty of murdering two children in Arboga, has, in a letter to Sweden's justice chancellor, complained of biased judges and claims that Sweden has no right to call itself a state governed by law. READ »

Arboga murderer appeals conviction a second time

National: 13 Mar 09
Christine Schürrer, the German woman found guilty of murdering two young children in Arboga last year, has appealed her life sentence. READ »


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