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The new Market Abuse Regulation (the MAR) entered into force on July 3rd 2016. The MAR is the latest step in a long-running regulatory process from the EU concerning the securities market, and as it entered into force it replaced the previously applicable Market Abuse Directive (the MAD). The MAR contains a few novelties, which can appear alien to Swedish operators at the securities market. For ex

In 2009, it was estimated that around 70 000 young men’s and women’s choice when it came to marriage and choice of partner in Sweden was limited or conditional. The Government concluded that the legislation did not effectively fight the occurrence of forced marriage and child marriage, and therefore presented a proposition for civil and criminal law changes. The law changes came into force July 1s

Until July 1, 2018, Swedish legislation lacked a general remedy for delays in the authorities’ handling of cases. With the introduction of section 12 of the Public Administration Act the remedy, often referred to as the delay action, came to change the Swedish Migration Agency’s routine handling of citizenship applications. Authorities would henceforth not be able to act passively in the handling

The first of July 2018, the Swedish sexual cime act on rape was change. The previous crime prerequisites violence and threat were removed. The prerequisite was replaced by the fact that the penalty limit is that one party "did not participated freely". In the media, the law has been named the law of consent. While the law was introduced, criticism of new law was put forward by several ac

Acquittals in cases of child sexual abuse have repeatedly been criticized in the social debate. Not least when it comes to perpetrators not being considered having reason to assume that a child was under age, although the child being as young as 11-12 years old. The critique has been legitimate when regarding the problems before the change of the statutory regulation on July 1st, 2018. The efficie

Hemliga tvångsmedel är av stor betydelse för framgångsrik brottsbekämpning i samhället. Samtidigt innebär det en inskränkning av den enskildes rätt till privat- och familjeliv. Detta arbete analyserar om det är möjligt för brottsbekämpande myndigheter att skapa trygghet i den demokratiska rättsstaten genom mer effektiv brottsuppklaring med hjälp av hemliga tvångsmedel, utan att samtidigt kränka deSecret surveillance methods are of great importance for successful law enforcement in today’s society, however, the benefits for the crime fighting authorities can be at the expense of the individual’s rights to privacy. The object of this thesis is to analyze whether it is possible for law enforcement agencies to create a safe community, in a democratic constitutional state, through the use of se

The Swedish age of criminal responsibility means that children under 15 who commit offences cannot be sentenced to any penalty. There is, however, a process in § 38 LUL that can determine whether a child under 15 has commit-ted a serious crime, called an evidentiary proceeding. At the time of its crea-tion, the purpose of an evidentiary proceeding was to provide the child wel-fare authorities with

On July 22, 2022, a crown witness system was introduced with the aim of increasing prosecution rates and breaking the prevailing culture of silence. This system includes a basis for sentence reduction regarding participation in the investigation of another's criminal activity. The idea behind the crown witness system is to increase incentives for suspects to cooperate in order to solve more se

On 1 July 2022, the Swedish Act (1988:254) on the Prohibition of Knives and Other Dangerous Objects (the Swedish Knife Act), which criminalizes possession of knives and other dangerous objects in public places, was amended. Through the amendment, four criteria were introduced to the statutory text, which are to be given particular consideration when assessing whether a violation of the law is to b

Title: The art of combining availability and exclusivity – A dialectical analysis of the tension between premium and luxury Seminar date: 2025-06-05 Course: FEKH29, Business Administration: Degree Project in Marketing, Undergraduate level, 15 credits Authors: Pontus Sölve, Hannes Hemgren, Julia Johansson Mozaffari Advisor: Jon Bertilsson Key words: Brand, Premium, Luxury, Masstige, New luxu

Title: Between few rules and strong culture: a qualitative study on culture and identity in a knowledge-intensive organization without explicit formalities. Seminar date: 3rd of June, 2025. Course: FEKH49, Degree Project Undergraduate Level, Business Administration, Undergraduate level, 15 ECTS. Authors: Klara Andersson, Julia Hesslevik & Sophie Linder. Advisor: Stefan Sveningsson. Keywords:

On the first of July 2018, Sweden made a drastic change to its rape provision, by adopting a new legislation, commonly referred to as the ”Consent Law”. Sweden’s neighboring country, Denmark, adopted its own version of the Consent Law a couple of years later, on the first of January 2021. The newely change of the Swedish and Danish penal codes have been an important step torwards reducing rap

År 2008 brakade den finansiella marknaden samman och följdes av en recession världen över som vi till viss del fortfarande brottas med. OTC-derivat, ett skräddarsytt bilateralt finansiellt instrument, har i finanskrisens efterdyningar beskyllts vara en av bovarna i dramat. Särskilt tros OTC-derivaten ha bidragit till en icke-transparens på marknaden som gjorde det omöjligt att både förutse och förIn 2008 the financial market collapsed and what followed was a worldwide recession which the market has yet to fully recover from. OTC-derivatives, which are tailor-made bilateral financial instruments, have in the aftermath of the collapse been accused of being one of the culprits. More specifically, OTC-derivatives are believed to have contributed to the opaque financial market that made it impo

Sverige har en lång tradition av en flexibel arbetsmarknad där arbetstagare fritt kunnat förflytta sig mellan offentlig och privat sektor. Övergångar av detta slag är i många delar positivt och genererar ett erfarenhetsutbyte som är till gagn för båda sektorer. I samband med övergång från anställning i offentlig till privat verksamhet kan emellertid så kallad svängdörrsproblematik uppstå. Denna prSweden has a long tradition of a flexible labor market where employees have been able to freely move between the public and private sectors. Transitions of this kind are largely positive and generate an exchange of experience that benefits both sectors. However, transitions from employment in the public sector to the private sector can give rise to what is known as the revolving door problem. This

Idag återfinns sexistiska kommentarer på sociala medieplattform, trots att företagen bakom har regler för vad som får publiceras. Sexism är ett strukturellt problem som kan påverka kvinnor negativt, både fysiskt och psykiskt och kan leda till självcensur. Ge- nom en kvalitativ textanalys syftar denna uppsats att testa om tre principer kan användas för att analysera om sexistiska kommentarer från FToday, sexist comments can be found on social media platforms, despite social media companies having rules on what is allowed to be published. Sexism is a structural prob- lem which can negatively affect women, both physically and mentally, and could lead to self-censorship. Through a qualitative text analysis, this essay aims to investigate whether sexist comments from Facebook and Instagram are

On July 1 this year, a new crime for involving a minor in crime will be introduced in Chapter 16, Section 5 a of the Swedish Penal Code. In the government bill, the purpose of the new criminalization is described as protecting society from young people being drawn into criminal networks. For a penal provision to be considered justified, there are several criminalization principles to which it mus