Promise
Hilkka Salmenkylä
Pekka Tuunainen
Pontus Baarman
Children’s Constitutional Rights in the Nordic Countries
Children’s Constitutional Rights in the Nordic Countries
VLADIMIR USHAKOV v. RUSSIA (Application no. 15122/17)
KKO:2008:98
The proceedings related to children born in March 2005 and July 2007 to married parents. In October 2007 the family moved to Scotland. The purpose of the move was the subject of dispute as between the parents. The family rented a flat in St Andrews, and availed of health care and social services there. On […]
Supreme Court, Civil Chamber II, E. 2011/8304 K.2011/8799
The case concerned an application for the return of a child born in 2009, who was habitually resident in Finland. The child was removed from Finland to Turkey on 23 April 2010 by the mother. The father applied for the return of the child. The first instance Family Court decided that the child had been […]
Helsinki Court of Appeal, 22 March 2011, Decision No 879
Habitual Residence – Art. 3 The mother argued that the child’s residence had at all times been in Finland and that the time spent in Canada had been temporary. It was her case that before the child’s birth she and the father had agreed to move to Finland. The father submitted that there had never […]