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full screen The Supreme Court has granted leave to appeal in the case. Archive image. Photo: Magnus Andersson/TT
A high-profile case in Västernorrland where a man in his 80s was wrongly sentenced to trusteeship is being taken up in the Supreme Court, reports Örnsköldsvik’s Allehanda.
According to local media, the current case is the first where the state’s responsibility for wrongful trusteeships is tried in court.
– Putting someone under guardianship is among the most intrusive things the state can do against its citizens, says the man’s representative at the Center for Justice to ÖA.
It was in December 2018 that the pensioner’s bank accounts and cards were suddenly blocked. A little over a week later, he received a letter from Ångermanland District Court announcing that he had been appointed a trustee – a person unknown to him in Västerås.
The pensioner had not been given any information about the whole thing, nor was there any medical examination assessing the need for a trustee.
The man lived under guardianship for a year before it ended.
The Court of Appeal has previously given him the right to damages of SEK 80,000. When the case is now to be taken up in HD, he and his counsel demand SEK 250,000.