SL, the Stockholm local transport authority, has been asked by the Swedish discrimination ombudsman (DO) to provide adequate compensation to a gay man after he was instructed to leave a bus by a local driver. Read the full story

All charges have been dismissed in the case of a Finnish website that had been accused of improper distribution and importation of alcoholic products from Germany for sale in Finland. Read the full story

A Helsinki couple has been fined by the District Court for allowing their baby son to be circumcised. Read the full story

After a decade-long struggle, a Swedish hemp farmer from Halland has won a favourable court ruling which declared the state’s seizure of his crop illegal. For all the legal wrangling, which was heard in both Swedish and European courts, the man was awarded just SEK 10,000 (USD 1,500) compensation. Read the full story

Exchange rate indexation of loans is illegal in Iceland and this also applies to domestic loans, according to a new court ruling that could have major consequences. Read the full story

The Supreme Court of Iceland has upheld the Reykjavik District Court decision not to stop the Special Prosecutor’s investigation into former government secretary Baldur Gudlaugsson. Read the full story

In the southern Swedish city of Halmstad, a local court has ruled that the case of a man who photographed a naked 17-year-old woman’s genitals while she lay sleeping was not considered a punishable offence and has dismissed the charges. Read the full story

In what is believed to be the youngest case of conviction for aggravated pimping, a girl aged just 17 has been sentenced for her role in the sale of the sexual services of a disabled 14-year-old girl. The alleged mastermind of the operation, a 20-year-old man, was acquitted of all charges. Read the full story

Daniel Thordarsson, former Kaupthing asset manager and Stefnir Ingi Agnarsson, former Kaupthing stock broker, were this morning sentenced to eight months in prison by the Reykjavik District Court. Read the full story

Iceland’s State Prosecutor has charged a woman for stabbing a five year-old girl in the chest with a knife. Read the full story