Eriksson Case

Abstract

Damages — Human rights violations — Losses liable to compensation — Non-pecuniary loss — Expenses — Basis of award — European Convention on Human Rights, 1950, Article 50

Human rights — Right to respect for family life — Child in care — Prohibition on mother removing daughter from foster home and other restrictive measures taken after termination of public care of daughter — Availability of measures to effect reunification — Lack of enforceable visiting rights — Whether unacceptable interference with family life of mother and daughter — Lack of court remedy to challenge restrictions on access — Whether violation of obligation to provide mechanisms for determination of civil rights — European Convention on Human Rights, 1950, Articles 6(1), 8 and 13 and Protocol Number 1 to the European Convention on Human Rights, 1952, Article 2