The Legal Concept of ‘Home’ : A Concealed but Embedded Feature of Swedish Landlord and Tenant Law, Occasionally Infringing Human Rights?

• There are potentially two parallel concepts of ‘home’ in Swedish law, if one would accept the convention based concept as also being a Swedish one. The protection of the tenant’s ‘home’ in landlord and tenant law precedes the protection of the home under Article 8 of the ECHR. The conceptualizing of ‘home’ in Swedish landlord tenant law can be dated to Bergman’s writings in the beginning of the 1920s. Article 8(1) provides for the right to respect for one’s home. A tenant’s home is therefore protected under separate rights to home in Sweden. A tenant that is at risk of losing one’s home may therefore base his/her case on either of these grounds. This article provides a conceptual springboard for which the concepts can be understood – both within the scope of the Land Code and Article 8 of the ECHR.

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SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Juridik -- Juridik (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Law -- Law (hsv//eng)

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