News and press releases

Collection of our published English news and press releases.

The Supreme Court reports on its activities

News release 2025-04-30

Interpretation of copyright agreements

News release 2025-02-28

The General Data Protection Regulation may have an impact on whether personal data in criminal judgments can be protected by confidentiality, even if constitutional protection applies

Press release 2025-02-25

The action regarding climate change brought against the state is inadmissible in court

Press release 2025-02-19

New Justice of the Supreme Court

News release 2025-01-07

The fact that a civil case concerns freedom of expression does not in itself prevent it from being processed as a small claims case

News release 2024-12-27

What is required for someone to be held criminally responsible for undertaking the temporary supervision of a child?

News release 2024-12-20

A court case about two different authorisations concerning the same matter

News release 2024-11-28

Forwarding of a judgment for enforcement in Spain

News release 2024-11-28

An employer’s actions against an employee's media statements are considered criminal

News release 2024-11-20

The Supreme Court has taken the best interests of the child into account when sentencing a parent who is solely responsible for the custody of a child

News release 2024-10-24

Impediments to extraditing a person to Türkiye

News release 2024-07-12

The Supreme Court grants a new trial in a criminal case because the prosecutor has been disqualified

News release 2024-06-19

Seizure of a memory card with journalistic material has been in violation of the Fundamental Law on Freedom of Expression

Nyhetsmeddelande 2024-06-26

Damages due to the European Convention were time-barred

News release 2024-06-14

Union citizen is not extradited to third country

News release 2024-04-04

Liability for using an untrue instrument and unlawful driving has been held not to be imposed when a formally valid driving licence has been issued on the basis of misleading information

News release 2024-04-03

Convicted of aggravated drunken driving despite assertion of sleep-driving

News release 2024-03-22

The "Frölunda Café" case has been translated into English

News release 2024-06-25

A new precedent has been translated into English

News release 2024-04-03

An arbitral award may be enforced in respect of the arbitrator's fee and fee to an arbitral institution

News release 2023-12-27

The "Genetic Genealogy" case has been translated into English

News release 2024-03-07

No leave to appeal in a high-profile case of crimes against international law in Iran

Press release 2024-03-06

Disclosure and data protection

News release 2023-12-29

Supreme Court delivers judgment in PFAS case

News release 2023-12-05

A shipowner is liable as operator of a vessel for damage caused to an undersea cable when the vessel was anchored

News release 2023-11-14

The "Interpellation Debate" case has been translated into English

News release 2023-11-06

Extradition to Ukraine has been deemed incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights

News release 2023-10-31

New precedents have been translated into English

News release 2023-09-12

A judgment on the marketing and sale of wine from abroad through e-commerce

News release 2023-07-07

The "Unknown Storage Site" case has been translated into English

News release 2023-07-04

Satellite broadcasts from Qatar did not have copyright protection in Sweden

News release 2023-05-12

A citizen of the European Union has been treated in the same way as a Swedish citizen for the purposes of the European Arrest Warrant Act

News release 2023-04-04

Statement in the regional council was not agitation against a population group

News release 2023-03-31

The Supreme Court reports on its activities

News release 2023-05-22

The "Greek judgment in absentia" case has been translated into English

News release 2023-04-19

New Supreme Court Justices

News release 2023-04-17

The "Daughter in the window" case has been translated into English

News release 2023-04-11

The "Application for a Summons in English" case has been translated into English

News release 2023-03-13

The BanID fraud case has been translated into English

News release 2023-03-06

A new precedent has been translated into English

News release 2023-02-03

A new precedent has been translated into English

News release 2023-01-24

A new precedent has been translated into English

News release 2022-01-18

Arbitral award in investment dispute declared invalid

News release 2022-12-14

Swedish court has jurisdiction to hear a case of alleged war crimes in Sudan

News release 2022-11-10

A new precedent has been translated into English

News release 2022-08-31

A new precedent has been translated into English

News release 2022-08-25

The Supreme Court reports on its activities

News release 2022-03-17

Extradition to Rwanda for legal proceedings relating to a charge of genocide

News release 2021-12-21

A foreign state was not considered immune from enforcement in listed shares

News release 2021-11-18

Posing with dead bodies during an armed conflict has been deemed to constitute a war crime

News release 2021-05-24

The Supreme Court reports on its activities

Press release 2021-04-16

Rap song was not a threat against a public official in light of the freedom of expression

Press release 2021-03-31

The Supreme Court’s website is launched in an English version

News release 2020-10-15

The “Girjas” case – press release

Press release 2020-01-23

Extradition to China is refused

Press release 2019-07-09

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2024-11-29