Justitiekanslern

The following articles have been tagged with "Justitiekanslern":

Liberals open to Green support to block far-right

Politics: 23 Oct 09
Liberal party leader Jan Björklund has opened up the possibility of cooperating with the Green party if the far-right Sweden Democrats garnered enough votes to hold the balance of power after the 2010 election. READ »

Sweden Democrat leader reported for 'hate speech'

Politics: 20 Oct 09
An opinion piece by Sweden Democrat leader Jimmie Åkesson in which he labels Muslims a major threat has been reported to Sweden's highest legal official by the Centre Against Racism. READ »

Islam 'Sweden's biggest threat': far-right leader

Politics: 19 Oct 09
An article by the leader of the far-right Sweden Democrats claiming that Islam is the biggest threat to Sweden since World War II is tantamount to hate speech, according to legal experts. READ »

Sweden to replace top legal official

National: 8 Oct 09
Sweden’s highest legal official, Chancellor of Justice Göran Lambertz, is stepping down from his post and will be replaced by supreme court justice Anna Skarhed, the government announced on Thursday. READ »

Tax agency ordered to pay for thwarted vacation

National: 1 Aug 09
The Swedish Chancellor of the Justice has ordered the Swedish Tax Agency to pay a Swedish family 13,750 kronor ($1,950) due to an administrative error that thwarted the family's vacation plans. READ »

Overweight inmate seeks damages for svelte fatigues

Society: 25 May 09
An inmate at Karlskrona prison in southern Sweden has applied for damages after the prisons service was unable to provide adequate attire to cover his considerable frame. READ »

Politicians' text messages 'public documents': Swedish court

Science & Technology: 6 May 09
Text messages sent to or from politicians can be considered public documents, a Swedish has ruled. READ »

Germany denied help in bishop probe

National: 9 Apr 09
The Swedish Chancellor of Justice has rejected a request from German prosecutors to require an SVT journalist to testify against Catholic bishop Richard Williamson, who denied the Holocaust in a January television broadcast. READ »

State to compensate Swede for broken 'hash' pipe

Society: 4 Mar 09
Sweden’s National Police Board has been ordered to pay a man 300 kronor ($33) in compensation after police destroyed his pipe during a drug raid. READ »

New lift for Sweden's minority languages

Politics: 29 Jan 09
The Swedish government has promised to do more to preserve and promote the country’s official minority languages. READ »

Teenage girls' 'insulting' blog prompts defamation claim

Society: 28 Jan 09
Hurtful gossip about teachers and staff published on a blog by two girls from a middle school in central Sweden have led to the filing of a defamation claim with Sweden’s Chancellor of Justice. READ »

State pays for drunk driver's wine

National: 22 Jan 09
A man from northern Sweden is to receive compensation from the state after he had his box wine confiscated by police in connection with a drink driving conviction. READ »

Swedish woman turns Canadian in citizenship mix up

National: 18 Dec 08
Swedish tax authorities inadvertently took away a Stockholm woman's Swedish citizenship and made her a citizen of Canada without telling her. READ »

Damages for wrongful child rape conviction

National: 31 Oct 08
A Swedish man has received 170,498 kronor ($21,725) in compensation after being wrongfully convicted of child rape. READ »

Sahlin calls for privacy ombudsman

Politics: 3 Oct 08
The Social Democrats want to create an ombudsman to help protect individuals’ privacy in Sweden, party leader Mona Sahlin told Sveriges Radio. READ »

Sweden pays man after sex with 14-year-old

National: 1 Oct 08
A Swedish man acquitted of rape charges after he filmed himself having sex with a 14-year-old girl is set to receive 157,000 kronor ($22,500) in compensation for being wrongly accused. READ »

Justice Chancellor calls for telephone tracking law

National: 16 Aug 08
Sweden’s Chancellor of Justice (Justitiekanslern – JK) has called for changes in telecom surveillance legislation to allow for the tracking of suspects using their mobile phones. READ »

FRA reports blogger to Justice Chancellor

National: 28 Jul 08
The National Defence Radio Establishment, FRA (Försvarets radioanstalt), has filed a complaint with Sweden’s Chancellor of Justice (Justitiekanslern – JK) against a blogger for publishing a classified document from the agency. READ »


Blog Update: Boston Blatte

09 February 22:56

Safety: overly conscious? »

"No one is surprised to hear that safety is important to Swedes. After all, the first 3-point seat belt was first put into production for cars in the Volvo PV444 in 1959. But there are moments when I think that the devotion to safety extends beyond the fair margin to allow for Darwin Award nominees...." READ »

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