| Applicant name | X. |
| Applicant type | Natural person |
| Country | Sweden |
| Decision no. | 7911/77 |
| Date | 12/12/1977 |
| Judges | – |
| Institution | Commission |
| Type | Decision |
| Outcome Art. 8 | Inadmissible |
| Reason | Manifestly ill-founded (health and morals) |
| Type of privacy | Family privacy |
| Keywords | Access to children |
| Facts of the case | Parents divorce; custody awarded to mother; father denied access to children. |
| Analysis | The short case is interest for two reasons. First, the Commssion emphasizes that the right to access to children by parents is a near absolute right that can only be limited in exceptional situations. In this case, the father was violent, so the ECtHR accepted that exceptional circumstances were present. Second, the Commission refers to the ‘health and morals’ of the children als ground for limiting the family privacy of the father, not their rights and freedoms. |
| Documents | Decision |