Doc. 9694

11 February 2003

Election of a judge to the European Court of Human Rights with respect to Sweden

(in accordance with Article 23, paragraph 1, of the European Convention on Human Rights)

Communication from the Committee of Ministers

Letter from the Secretary General of the Council of Europe to the President of the Parliamentary Assembly, dated 6 February 2003

Dear President,

      Pursuant to the decisions of the Ministers’ Deputies of which I enclose a copy, I have the honour to transmit to you the list of candidates for the post of Judge of the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Sweden.

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Signed:

Walter Schwimmer

Decisions of Ministers' Deputies

826th meeting – 5 February 2003

Item 4.2

European Court of Human Rights –
Presentation of candidatures for the election of a judge in respect of Sweden
(CM(2003)6)

Decisions

The Deputies

1.       took note of the list of candidates for the election of a judge of the European Court of Human Rights, presented in respect of Sweden;

2.       agreed to transmit the said list of candidates to the President of the Parliamentary Assembly.

CURRICULUM VITAE

I. Personal details

Fura-Sandström, Elisabet Kristina

Female

28 March 1954, Stockholm

Swedish

II. Education and academic and other qualifications

University of Stockholm (juris kandidat, L.L.M. 1979).

Admitted to the Swedish Bar Association 1985.

III. Relevant professional activities

a. Judicial activities

Served as a junior judge (tingsnotarie) at the district court of Sollentuna 1979-1982.

b. Non-judicial legal activities

Served as legal expert on several parliamentary committees, most recently on a committee reviewing the procedural code. Other committees have proposed new legislation on different aspects of insolvency and procedural law. (SOU 1999:147 procedural law on forfeiture, SOU 1997:123 criminal law on injunctions against carrying on a business, SOU1999:1 procedural and insolvency law on the right of priority in bankruptcy, SOU 1996:30 criminal law on creditor crime, SOU 1995:10 criminal and tax law, review of the law on tax evasion, SOU 2001: 103, procedural law a review of some aspects of the procedural law.)

Invited by the government to participate in a seminar on how to enhance the Swedish participation and contribution to the EU legislative process (November 2002).

Teaching assignments as of 1979 and onwards at the faculties of law of the Universities of Stockholm and Uppsala, the Stockholm School of Economics, Centre Regional de Formation Professionel des Barreaux de la cour d'Appel de Paris and Swedish Institute for Legal Development (comparative seminar on law and development).

Speaker at various international conferences on legal matters, including access to justice related issues.

Member of the Swedish Bar Association since 1985.

Member of the board of the Stockholm section of the Swedish Bar Association 1988-1993.

Member (convenor) of the election committee of the Stockholm section of the Swedish Bar Association 1995-1997.

Member of the board of the Swedish Bar Association 1994-2001 (vice president 1996-1999, president 1999-2001).

President of Association Internationale des Jeunes Avocats 1991-1992.

President of the Stockholm Association of Official Receivers (Konkursförvlatarkollegiet i Stockholm) 1995-1996.

Associated with Vinge Law Firm 1982, Stockholm office. Elected partner 1988. Resident partner in Paris office (1991-1993). Practice areas: general corporate, mergers and acquisitions, insolvency, maritime, insurance and litigation. Head of practice group General Corporate in Stockholm office. Currently involved in two pro bono projects run by Vinge over a three year period, the first supporting Riga Graduate School of Law and the second promoting diversity in the work place through an outreach to high school students.

Head of the Swedish delegation to the Council of the Bars and Law Societies of the European Union (CCBE) 1998.

President of the ad hoc committee of the CCBE on Alternative Dispute Resolution 2002.

Lecturer at the compulsory course in legal ethics for applicants preparing for the bar exam of the Swedish Bar Association 2001.

c. Non-legal professional activities

Member of the board of The Swedish Society for Medical Reserach (Svenska Sällskapet för Medicinsk forskning) 2001.

Member of the board (vice president) of Ecole Francaise, Stockhom 1999.

IV Activities and experience in the field of human rights

Member of the committee on due process of law (Swedish Bar Association) 1988-1994.

Member of the committee on human rights of the Swedish Bar Association 2001.

Member of the committee on constitutional law of the Swedish Bar Association 2000-2002.

Board member of International Legal Assistance Consortium (ILAC) 2002.

Board member of Swedish Institute for Legal Development (SILD) 1997.

Assignments in projects run and financed by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) regarding the reconstruction of the judiciary including the protection of human rights in Laos and Vietnam. As team member and legal expert in Laos and as evaluator of tenders in the Vietnam project. Currently discussing participation in a project regarding the rule of law in Cambodia.

Participation as expert on insolvency law in a project whereby the ministry of finance supported their counterparts in Moscow in an effort to reform laws related to insolvency. Lectured in Moscow in 1999.

Assignment as speaker in a project jointly organised by the American Bar Association /Central and East European Law Initiative, the Swedish Bar Association and SILD in Banja Luka Republika Srpska Bosnia and Herzegovina providing assistance to the Bar Association of Republika Srpska 1998-1999.

Chair of the CCBE committee on Access to Justice, 2000.

V. Public activities

a. Public office

Member of the board of the Election Authority (Valmyndigheten) 2002.

Member of the board of the Supervisory Board of Accountants (Revisorsnämnden) 1995-2002.

b. Elected posts

Not applicable.

c. Posts held in a political party or movement

Not applicable.

VI. Other activities

Not applicable.

VII. Publications and other works

Contributions to

"A practitioner's guide to European corporate insolvency law" Westminster Management Consultants Ltd, 1992/93 edition, ISBN 1-872660-39-8.

"European Corporate Insolvency: A Practical Guide", John Wiley & Sons, 2nd edition 1995, ISBN 0471 952397.

"Droit International de l'homme d'affaires", Éditions Dalloz 1994, ISBN 2-247-01782-7.

"Forum on insolvency law" (Insolvensrättsligt Forum) 1990, 1995, 1997, Iustus Förlag, ISBN 91-7678-188-7, 91-7678-326-X, 91-7678-362-6.

"The liability of lawyers and indemnity insurance for the legal profession" Wolters Kluwer in cooperation with International Bar Association 1995, ISBN 90-411-9689-7.

"KARNOV", Swedish law collection with comments, 1996-2001/02, ISSN 1402-6503.

"Directors' Liabilities in case of Insolvency" Kluwer Law International, 1999 ISBN 90-411-9689-7.

Some 25 articles on various topics including human rights published in Advokaten, periodical published by the Swedish Bar Association.

VIII Languages

a. First language

Swedish, reading, writing and speaking; very good.

b. Official languages

English, reading, writing and speaking; very good.

French, reading, writing and speaking; very good.

c. Other languages

Danish and Norwegian, reading; good.

Dutch/Flemish, reading; good.

Spanish, reading; fairly good.

IX. Other relevant information

References can be provided.

I confirm that I will take up permanent residence in Strasbourg if elected a judge to the Court.

Stockholm 26 November 2002

Elisabet Fura-Sandström

CURRICULUM VITAE

Pernilla Lindh

I. Personal Information

• Nationality: Swedish

• Gender: female

• Born: 8.10.1945

• Place of Birth: Malmö, Sweden

II. Education and academic and other qualifications

1965       Studentexamen

1965       University studies English

1971       Law degree/Bachelor of Law, University of Lund

III. Relevant professional activities

1971       Prosecutor trainee at the Stockholm Public Prosecution Authority

1971-1974       Junior Judge at the Trollhättan District Court

1974-1975       Svea Court of Appeal, Stockholm (assistant judge)

1975       Judge at the Stockholm District Court (criminal and civil cases)

1975-1978       Svea Court of Appeal as a legal assistant to the President of the Court (legal and administrative matters). In 1977 engaged by the National Courts Administration (Domstolsverket) to educate judges in the new and epoch-making labour legislation of that time.

1979-1980       Office of the Chancellor of Justice (handling private persons claims for compensation due to alleged incorrect exercise of public authority by a State Authority as well as reports on alleged incorrect exercise of public authority by such authorities.

1980-1981       Associate judge Svea Court of Appeal.

1981-1982       Ministry of Commerce (legal advisor)

1982-1995       Ministry for Foreign Affairs (legal advisor)

1986       Assistant Under-Secretary

1987       Under-secretary for Legal Affairs

1988       Title of Ambassador from 1988 on. Responsible for legislation in a number of fields such as sanctions, exportation of military equipment, customs-legislation and legislation concerning exports and imports. Furthermore, responsible for legal and institutional matters in the EEA negotiations between the EFTA-countries and the EU. Vice president for the EFTA-side and after the Swiss referendum, president. Main responsibility for carrying through the EEA-agreement and it's incorporation into Swedish law. President of numerous groups within the Swedish administration concerning these matters. Responsible for the incorporation of the accessing Treaty to the EU and overall law- making in connection with Sweden's membership of the EU. Agent of the Swedish Government in cases before the EFTA Surveillance Authority and the EFTA Court. Participation in several governmental reports concerning questions related to a Swedish membership. Participation in steering groups and vice-president of the Market Court. Numerous speeches.

1995-       Judge at the Court of First Instance of the European

          Communities, Luxembourg

IV. Activities and experience in the field of human rights

As a judge at the Court of First Instance I have at some occasions had the opportunity to deal with the Convention of Human Rights when invoked by private parties; especially in staff-cases.

V. Public activities

See under "Relevant professional activities".

VI. Other activities

None

VII. Publications and other works

A few contributions to publications mainly concerning EC-law.

VIII. Languages

a)       First language: Swedish

b)       Official languages:

          -English: good in reading, writing and speaking

          -French: good in reading, writing and speaking

c)       Other languages: Nordic languages, some German, takes lessons in Italian.

IX. Other relevant information

X.

In earlier negotiations and in my present work I have learnt to cooperate and discuss in international forum.

I confirm that I will take up permanent residence in Strasbourg if elected a

judge to the Court.

Curriculum vitae – Mrs Lotty Nordling

I. Personal details

Nordling, Lotty Andrea

Female

Born 12 Oct. 1945 in Stockholm, Sweden

Swedish nationality

II. Education

Bachelor of Laws, University of Stockholm, 1969

III. Relevant professional activities

a. Judicial activities

1. Junior Judge at Södertälje District Court, 1969 – 1972

2. Reporting Clerk at Svea Court of Appeal, Stockholm, 1972 – 1973

3. Assistant Judge at Huddinge District Court, 1974 –1977

4. Associate Judge of Appeal at Svea Court of Appeal, Stockholm, 1978 – 1979

5. Judge Referee at Supreme Court of Justice, Stockholm, 1984 – 1986

6. Judge at Södra Roslags District Court, Stockholm, 1987

7. Deputy member of the Market Court, 1992 – 1995,

(parttime)

8. President of section at the National Board of Consumer Complaints,

1988 – 2000 (parttime)

9. President of the National Board for Consumer Complaints, 2000 –

b. Non-judicial legal actvities

1. Legal adviser at the Ministry of Education, Stockholm, 1977 – 1978

2. Legal adviser at the Ministry for Local Government, Stockholm, 1979 – 1982

3. Legal adviser at the Ministry for Public Administration, Stockholm, 1983

4. Director for Legal Affairs at the Ministry for Public Administration, Stockholm, 1988 – 1992

5. Director-General for Legal Affairs at the Ministry for Public Administration, Stockholm, 1992 – 1995

6. Director-General for Legal Affairs at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador, Stockholm, 1995 – 2000

c. Non-legal activities

IV. Activities and experience in the field of human rights

No activities in the field.

Experience in the field from general judicial and legislative work.

V. Public activities

a. Public office

1. Expert, legal adviser and member on a number of government committees,

1977 – 1999

2. Secretary to the Standing Committee on Church-Law legislation, Church

Assembly 1982 – 1984

3. Member of the Government Committee on the Development of the Judicial

System (Ministry of Justice, Stockholm), 2001 –

4. Chairman of the Government Committee on Product Safety (Ministry of Justice, Stockholm), 2002 –

b. Elected posts

1. President for the Council of the Swedish Pensions Insurance Society for the

Employees of the Church of Sweden, 1999 –

2. Deputy member of the Press Council, 2002 –

c. Posts held in a political party or movement

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VI. Other activities

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VII. Publications and other works

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VIII. Languages

Language       Reading       Writing       Speaking

X. Other relevant information

Family: Husband, born in 1944, Captain (N)

Two daughters, born in 1973 and 1976

X. Residence

If elected a judge to the Court, I will take up residence in Strasbourg.