Research methodology
FFVR works from primary legal sources and states plainly when a proposition is FFVR's own analysis rather than a description of existing law.
Order of authority
- Primary legal sources — treaties, legislation, judgments
- Official government sources and decisions
- Court judgments and decisions of human rights bodies
- Legislative materials — bills, inquiries, committee reports
- Official authority guidance
- Academic legal literature
- Secondary sources, only where appropriate and identified as such
Source classification
Court judgments, legislation, government documents and official decisions.
Academic literature, legal commentary and scholarly analysis.
Information published by government agencies and public authorities.
FFVR's own interpretation or legal argument, not a statement of settled law.
Lex lata, interpretation and lex ferenda
A description of what the law provides today.
A reading of existing sources where the question is open or developing.
A proposal for how the law should develop. Never presented as existing law.
Verification
Citations, case numbers and quotations are taken from official texts. Where a detail could not be confirmed against the official source, the entry is marked as requiring verification rather than completed from memory or secondary reporting. FFVR does not publish reconstructed citations.
The information provided by FFVR is intended for general informational and educational purposes. It is not individual legal advice. The legal analysis presented on this website includes both established law and FFVR's interpretation of relevant legal principles. Where FFVR advocates for a particular legal development, this should not be understood as a statement that such a right already exists under Swedish law.