Olsson Case

Abstract

Damages — Human rights violations — Losses liable to be compensated — Non-pecuniary loss — Legal fees — European Convention on Human Rights, Article 50

Human rights — Right to respect for family life — Children taken into public care — Separating children and placing at great distance from family home — Restrictions on access by natural parents — Involvement of natural parents in decision-making process — Whether decision to take children into care constitutes interference with family life — Whether manner of implementation and restrictions on access proportionate and “necessary” — Separation not constituting “inhuman treatment” — Effect of parents’ mental health record — Inability of parents to influence religious education of children — Whether proven or relevant — European Convention on Human Rights, 1950, Articles 3, 6, 8, 13 and 14 and Protocol Number 1 to the European Convention on Human Rights, 1952, Article 2

International tribunals — European Court of Human Rights — Procedure — Questions of admissibility — Local remedies rule — Government objections founded on admissibility and local remedies raised out of time — Compensation — Awards under European Convention on Human Rights, 1950, Article 50