Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Finnish legal system originated during the period before Swedish rule. The traditional system of tings for criminal cases and civil disputes continued after conquest and the country's first court of appeals was established at Turku in 1634. [2]
The law of Finland (Finnish: Suomen laki, Swedish: Finlands lag) is based on the civil law tradition, consisting mostly of statutory law promulgated by the Parliament of Finland. The constitution of Finland , originally approved in 1919 and rewritten in 2000, has supreme authority and sets the most important procedures for enacting and applying ...
The Constitution of Finland (Finnish: Suomen perustuslaki or Swedish: Finlands grundlag) is the supreme source of national law of Finland. [1] It defines the basis, structures and organisation of government, the relationship between the different constitutional organs, and lays out the fundamental rights of Finnish citizens, and individuals in general.
Scandinavian law, also known as Nordic law, [1] is the law of the five Nordic countries, namely Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.It is generally regarded as a subgroup of civil law or as an individual legal body in itself.
Finland's proportional representation system encourages a multitude of political parties and since about 1980 the trend has been that the same coalition rules for the whole period between elections. Finland elects on national level a head of state—the president—and a legislature. The president is elected for a six-year term by the people.
The justices of the Supreme Court have usually earlier experience from different branches of the legal profession, most often in courts of law, but also in the drafting of legislation, academic positions and as legal practitioners. According to law, the Supreme Court must have a President and at least 15 members. The Court now consists of 18 ...
Russia's foreign ministry on Thursday criticised a Finnish government plan to speed the confiscation of Russian-owned real estate in Finland, warning the Nordic country of countermeasures. Many ...
John Svan and the others were made naturalized US citizens, and from that day on, the law forbade treating Finnish immigrants and Americans of Finnish descent as not white. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] [ 32 ] In the beginning of the 20th century, there was a lot resentment from the local American population toward the Finnish settlers because they were seen ...