Judgment concerning Norway
In the case of Haugen v. Norway the Court held that there had been a violation of the right to life and a violation of the right to an effective remedy.
The case concerned the suicide of the applicant’s son while in Oslo Prison. He had been suffering from mental-health issues and had allegedly been a suicide risk.
The Court concluded that the Norwegian authorities had not done all that could have been expected of them to protect the life of the applicant’s son. It highlighted the lack of adequate medical follow-up care of the applicant’s son after he was transferred from a hospital back to Oslo Prison and the decision to transfer him away from the close-supervision unit without any sort of in-depth medical assessment of his mental state.
This is the first ever violation of Article 2 found against Norway.