February 15, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Svea_court_of_appeal":
Business & Money: 1 Feb 12
The Swedish Supreme Court will not grant the right to appeal in the Pirate Bay case, the court announced on Wednesday, marking the end of the four defendants' legal battle in Sweden.
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Business & Money: 28 Dec 11
A couple from northern Sweden who fled the country after being convicted for swindling unknowing Swedes into funding fictional projects in Thailand have been arrested in Vietnam.
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Education: 22 Dec 11
A newly licenced teacher who sent sexually suggestive text messages to a 15-year-old Swedish girl during his traineeship has been barred from teaching after being convicted of sexual molestation.
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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.
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Science & Technology: 14 Oct 11
The guilty verdict against Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg has come into force after his failure to request his appeal be heard. He missed an original appeal hearing last year because he was ill in Cambodia.
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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.
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National: 12 Sep 11
A 58-year-old man has been sentenced to four years imprisonment after forgetting a bag containing almost four kilogrammes of illicit drugs in his local supermarket.
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National: 8 Sep 11
Convicted serial killer Thomas Quick, who recently retracted confessions for eight murders, has formally petitioned the Court of Appeal for a retrial over the murder of an 11-year-old boy in 2001.
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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.
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National: 23 May 11
A Swedish appeals court has confirmed the 18 year prison sentence served to a man in Katrineholm in eastern Sweden for the murder of his adoptive daughter in a so-called honour killing in November 2010.
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National: 21 Apr 11
The Swedish Red Cross lost 44,000 members in 2010, equating to every fifth, with criticism over high salaries and a high profile fraud scandal taking its toll.
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Society: 18 Apr 11
Johan af Donner, the former Swedish Red Cross communications chief sentenced to five years in prison for swindling the organisation out of millions of kronor, has lost an appeal against his conviction.
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National: 11 Apr 11
Convicted serial killer Thomas Quick, who recently retracted confessions for eight murders, has formally petitioned the Court of Appeal for a retrial in the two further murder cases.
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National: 29 Mar 11
A Swedish prosecutor has dropped the case against Thomas Quick related to the 1988 murder of nine-year-old Therese Johannessen in Norway, saying there was no evidence to link him to the case.
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National: 16 Feb 11
Sweden's Svea Court of Appeal has announced that it has raised the penalties served on three of the key men behind the spectacular helicopter heist in Västberga in September 2009.
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National: 29 Jan 11
A Swedish appeals court imposed a fine of 5,600 kronor ($864) on translator of Japanese manga on Friday because drawings stocked on his hard drives were considered child pornography.
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Sport: 10 Jan 11
Former Swedish national team goalkeeper Magnus Hedman and Allsvenskan forward Dulee Johnson are guilty of paying for sex, a Swedish court ruled on Monday.
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Science & Technology: 20 Dec 10
Carl Lundström, one of the four defendants in The Pirate Bay trial has confirmed that he is appealing the sentence imposed by the Swedish appeals court.
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Science & Technology: 24 Nov 10
A Swedish court ruled on Wednesday to reject WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange's appeal against an arrest warrant for rape, meaning that the Australian remains wanted worldwide.
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Society: 17 Nov 10
A 23-year-old Swedish man has been acquitted of animal cruelty charges after a court ruled that biting the head off a live mouse was “repulsive, but not criminal”.
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National: 19 Oct 10
A Swedish appeals court overturned the conviction of a Swedish Security Service and former royal bodyguard on Tuesday. He had been sentenced to six years in prison for aggravated rape and obstruction of justice.
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Science & Technology: 12 Oct 10
The prosecution in the appeals trial of three founders and a financier of Swedish file sharing site The Pirate Bay demanded that the defendants' one-year prison sentences be upheld.
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Science & Technology: 28 Sep 10
While devoid of any high-charged drama, the opening day of the Pirate Bay appeals court trial nevertheless included a few unexpected developments.
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National: 24 Sep 10
The Swedish appeals court on Friday overturned a conviction against serial killer Thomas Quick for the murder of nine-year-old Therese Johannessen in Norway in 1988.
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National: 18 Sep 10
A Uighur previously convicted of passing information to China about other members of Sweden’s Uighur community had his sentence prolonged by a Swedish appeals court Friday.
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Science & Technology: 2 Aug 10
Peter Sunde, one of the co-founders of The Pirate Bay, has appealed a ruling by Stockholm District Court banning him from continuing to run the popular file sharing site, comparing the ruling to a "political gag order".
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Business & Money: 26 Jul 10
One of the co-founders of The Pirate Bay, Peter Sunde, has been banned by Stockholm district court from continuing to run the filesharing site.
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National: 22 Jul 10
The Legal, Financial and Administrative Services Agency (Kammarkollegiet) has stripped an interpreter of his license after learning he had misinterpreted during a murder trial due to his poor Swedish skills.
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Science & Technology: 28 Jun 10
Swedish internet service provider Black Internet has decided to bar its customers from accessing the The Pirate Bay, amid fears that an appeals court ruling rendered it subject to punitive fines.
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National: 26 May 10
In a letter indicating that the principle "all are equal before the law" extends only until one's passing, a Malmö chief prosecutor has requested that the conviction of an already dead man for assault should be rendered invalid.
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National: 20 Apr 10
Convicted serial killer Thomas Quick, who recently retracted confessions for eight murders, has formally petitioned the Court of Appeal for a retrial in the case of the murder of nine-year-old Norwegian girl Therese Johannessen.
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National: 21 Mar 10
A young Swedish woman who falsely accused her father of rape will now face charges of her own. The father had received a five-year prison sentence in 2007 after the then 17-year-old girl reported he had sexually assaulted her.
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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.
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National: 19 Mar 10
The mother of Therese Johannessen has described the investigation into her daughter's death as scandalous, as an evidence controversy sheds doubt on the conviction of the Swedish serial murderer Thomas Quick.
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Education: 18 Mar 10
The Swedish government has announced that from August 1st it will no longer be permitted to favour prospective university students by virtue of their gender.
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Society: 4 Mar 10
The chief executive of the Norrland Opera House, Magnus Aspegren, has been cleared by the appeals court of any responsibility in connection with the floor collapse at a rock concert at the Umeå opera house in 2007.
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Society: 23 Feb 10
The Court of Appeal has ordered Elite Hotels to pay compensation to six men after finding that they were denied entry to a Stockholm nightclub due to their ethnicity.
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Education: 22 Feb 10
Lund University in southern Sweden has agreed to pay compensation to 24 women denied admission to the university's psychology programme because of their gender.
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National: 18 Feb 10
A Swedish court on Thursday ruled that the two doctors previously suspected of committing the gruesome murder of Catrine da Costa, found dismembered in 1984, are not entitled to damages.
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National: 5 Feb 10
The Svea Court of Appeal has confirmed the sentences for the two teenagers convicted in the killing of 15-year-old Therese Johansson Rojo in the Stockholm suburb of Stureby last summer.
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Education: 12 Jan 10
Sweden plans to ditch gender quotas for admissions to programmes at the country’s universities and colleges, according to higher education and research minister Tobias Krantz.
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National: 21 Dec 09
A Swedish appeals court ruled on Monday that it was illegal for a university to prioritize men for its veterinary education programme, upholding a previous decision finding the institution guilty of illegal gender discrimination.
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National: 17 Dec 09
Convicted Swedish serial murderer Thomas Quick has been granted a new trial for the 1988 killing of a tourist in Dalarna in central Sweden after he recanted his confessions to several killings.
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Sport: 18 Nov 09
A Swedish ice hockey player who was sentenced to two months in prison after fighting with an opposing player has had his conviction upheld upon appeal, but will not have to spend time behind bars.
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National: 13 Nov 09
A 19-year old man, earlier freed by a district court over the killing of Ahmed "Romario" Ibrahim Ali, has been found guilty of murder in the Svea Court of Appeal and sentenced to seven years imprisonment.
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National: 5 Nov 09
Per-Anders Pettersson intervened to save a 66-year-old woman from assault. But instead of being lauded for exercising his civic duty he is now about to start a prison sentence in a case that has sparked outrage in Sweden.
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Society: 4 Nov 09
Two women who were told to stop kissing by a guard at a popular Stockholm night club have had their damage award for discrimination upheld by the Supreme Court.
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Business & Money: 29 Oct 09
Sweden’s Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that broadband provider ePhone is obligated to hand over customer data to five audio book publishers.
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National: 27 Oct 09
Police in Sweden have arrested another suspect in the helicopter-aided robbery of a cash depot in the Stockhlm suburb of Västberga last month.
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National: 26 Oct 09
The Svea Court of Appeal on Monday upheld a prison sentence for Thomas Jisander, who was convicted in 2008 for embezzling 20 million kronor ($3 million) in the so-called Trustor affair.
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National: 21 Oct 09
A Swedish teenage boy who sent naked pictures of his ex-girlfriend to his friends has had his conviction overturned upon appeal.
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Science & Technology: 19 Oct 09
An appeal launched by the four men found guilty in the Pirate Bay trial is unlikely to be heard until next summer, a Swedish appeals court announced on Monday.
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Society: 16 Oct 09
A lay judge slept his way through a court case which resulted in the convictions of two gangsters for forcing an 18-year-old boy to cover an offending tattoo, one of the men has claimed in his appeal to the Supreme Court.
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Science & Technology: 13 Oct 09
Swedish broadband provider ePhone is not obligated to hand over customer information to five book publishers, according to a decision by the Svea Court of Appeal which overturns a lower court ruling.
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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.
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Science & Technology: 6 Oct 09
File sharing site The Pirate Bay was out of commission on Tuesday as it struggled to find hosting providers willing to serve the site.
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Science & Technology: 29 Sep 09
A Swedish court ruled on Tuesday that a lay judge set to hear the next phase of the Pirate Bay trial is unsuitable for the job because he works for the Spotify digital music service.
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National: 25 Sep 09
The ten year prison sentence handed down to the 23-year-old man convicted of shooting into the entrance of Casino Cosmopol in Stockholm on Christmas Eve was confirmed by the appeals court on Friday.
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National: 8 Jun 09
The judge in The Pirate Bay trial was not biased, Stockholm District Court has argued in its report to the Court of Appeal, which will rule on the issue.
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Business & Money: 1 Jun 09
The Svea Court of Appeal has acquitted Ulf Spång, the former director of Swedish insurance firm Skandia, of charges of tax evasion.
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National: 27 May 09
Friends and relatives of Ahmed "Romario" Ibrahim Ali, who was stabbed to death last autumn near Stockholm, were stunned to learn on Tuesday that the prime suspect in the 23-year-old’s killing had fled the country.
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Science & Technology: 25 May 09
A Swedish court has ruled that three of the backers of The Pirate Bay will have the chance to respond to record company demands calling on the court to impose fines if the men refuse to close the site.
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Science & Technology: 20 May 09
The US entertainment companies who last month claimed victory in The Pirate Bay trial have now appealed the verdict, arguing that the fines imposed on the four men convicted in the case were too low.
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Science & Technology: 6 May 09
US authorities announced on Tuesday the indictment of a 21-year-old Swede on charges of hacking into computer systems at the NASA space agency and US networking giant Cisco.
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National: 25 Apr 09
Carl Lundström, who received a one-year prison sentence following the trial of the four men behind the free file-sharing website The Pirate Bay, has demanded a retrial in the district court.
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National: 20 Apr 09
Convicted serial killer Thomas Quick, who recently retracted confessions for eight murders, formally petitioned the Svea Court of Appeal for a retrial on Monday.
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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".
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National: 25 Mar 09
A man convicted for the statutory rape of a minor is free to continue practicing as a physiotherapist in Sweden pending a ruling from the country’s medical responsibility board about whether or not to recall his licence.
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National: 23 Mar 09
A 36-year-old Swedish man previously convicted for abusing his two week old daughter has had his one-year prison sentence lengthened to four years by the Svea Court of Appeal.
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National: 21 Mar 09
The case of the stabbing death of 23-year-old Ahmed "Romario" Ibrahim Ali will be continued in the Svea Court of Appeal. Prosecutor Ewa Tvengström has appealed the acquittals of the three suspects in the case.
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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.
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National: 9 Mar 09
A paediatrician arrested last week on suspicion of killing a baby has been released on the orders of prosecutors, according to a court service spokesperson.
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Society: 23 Dec 08
The Swedish state has been ordered to pay compensation to a couple in Västerås by the European Court of Human Rights after they were evicted from their Stockholm flat over a satellite dish dispute.
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National: 12 Dec 08
Christine Schürrer, the German woman sentenced to life in prison for killing two toddlers in Arboga, refused to answer prosecutors' questions during a appeals court hearing on Friday.
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National: 15 Oct 08
A 20-year-old man from Strängnäs in central Sweden who was fined for public urination has had his case overturned on appeal.
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National: 10 Sep 08
A 45-year-old man was sentenced on Wednesday by the Svea Court of Appeal to life in prison for killing a 29-year-old mother of two with an axe in March.
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National: 5 Sep 08
There will be no new trial of the Arboga murder case following the Svea Court of Appeal’s rejection of an appeal by the defendant, Christine Schürrer.
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National: 1 Sep 08
Christine Schürrer has appealed last week’s district court decision to forgo a retrial in the Arboga murder case following accusations that lay judges were biased.
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Business & Money: 10 Jul 08
Five Ericsson executives accused of faking invoices in an attempt to slash the company’s tax bill have been found not guilty by an appeal court in Stockholm.
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National: 19 Apr 08
The German suspect in the Arboga child murders case has been identified by the 23-year-old mother of the murdered children.
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Business & Money: 19 Dec 07
Lars-Eric Petersson has been cleared of charges surrounding his handling of very high bonuses paid out by the company.
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National: 11 Dec 07
A woman who bore the child of a 14-year-old boy has been sentenced to six months in jail
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Science & Technology: 19 Nov 07
A 19-year-old man who hacked his way into "pretty much every college in Sweden", is being investigated by the FBI for hacking Cisco.
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National: 23 Oct 07
A Swedish court has called for the parents of a young baby to be taken back into custody following suspicions that they may have seriously assaulted the girl when she was just two weeks old.
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National: 18 Oct 07
The lawyer of one of the men found guilty of rape in a high profile Stockholm rape case claims to have found an error in the appeal court's verdict. Björn Sandin argues that the Supreme Court should now take up the case.
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National: 16 Oct 07
The two men at the centre of a highly controversial rape case have been found guilty by Svea Court of Appeal. The men were each sentenced to four years in prison.
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Society: 27 Sep 07
A controversial rape case has reached the Svea Court of Appeal in Stockholm, amid intense media and public interest. Two men found not guilty of raping a 19-year-old girl are to have their acquittals tested.
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Business & Money: 20 Jun 07
Ola Ramstedt, a former senior executive of Swedish insurance company Skandia, has had his sentence for gross breach of trust reduced by a court in Stockholm.
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National: 17 Apr 07
A woman who sunbathed and smoked in the nude outside the apartment block in which she lived cannot be evicted, despite the protests of neighbours, a court rules.
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Politics: 26 Feb 07
Anna Sjödin, former head of the Social Democrats' youth movement, SSU, should not be granted a retrial following her conviction for assault, the Prosecutor General has said.
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Business & Money: 24 Jan 07
Systembolaget is being taken to court by fellow state-owned booze company Vin & Sprit after it removed 15 brands of wine from its stores as a punishment for alleged bribery.
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Society: 12 Jan 07
A Gothenburg hospital that employed a doctor with a string of convictions for sex offences in its psychiatric unit has admitted that it never checks whether job applicants have criminal convictions.
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Society: 11 Jan 07
A doctor with a string of convictions for sexual offences has been given a job at Gothenburg's Sahlgrenska Hospital. The hospital was unaware of the man's record.
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Politics: 4 Jan 07
Former Social Democrat youth leader Anna Sjödin has applied to Sweden's Supreme Court for leave to appeal her conviction for assaulting a bouncer at a Stockholm bar.
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Business & Money: 15 Dec 06
The former CEO of Swedish insurance company Skandia, Lars-Eric Petersson, has been told he does not have to pay 300 million kronor in damages to his old company.
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National: 2 Oct 06
The first Swede to be convicted of illegal file sharing has been cleared by an appeal court in Stockholm. It is difficult to predict the consequences of this ruling, says the prosecutor.
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National: 31 Jul 06
A man who killed his Australian partner and dismembered her body has had his life prison sentence confirmed by a Stockholm appeal court.
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Society: 7 Jul 06
A woman in Sweden whose biological daughter was born to a surrogate has had her legal guardianship taken away after the father withdrew his consent.
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National: 7 Jun 06
A man who shared a film on the Internet has been convicted of breaking copyright laws by a Gothenburg court, in the third conviction of its kind in Sweden.
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National: 12 Apr 06
Swedish television channel TV4 infringed the copyright of filmmakers Claes Eriksson and Vilgot Sjöman by inserting commercial breaks in their films, said the Svea Court of Appeal on Wednesday.
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As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »
Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »
"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »
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