Criticism of a senior judge at Malmö District Court for disclosing in a criminal judgment confidential information about victims
Date of article: 10/06/2024
Daily News of: 21/06/2024
Country: Sweden
Author: Parliamentary Ombudsmen of Sweden
Article language: en
Date of decision: 2024-03-13Decision case number: 6569-2023Decision maker: Ombudsman
Malmö District Court delivered a judgment in a criminal case involving sexual offences. In the case, there were several victims.
Although it was intended that the victims’ identities would remain confidential, they were named in an automatically generated part of the judgment, which the senior judge with responsibility for the case did not notice. As a result, the names were disclosed when the judgment was delivered. The Parliamentary Ombudsman takes the incident seriously and directs criticism towards the responsible judge.