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http://www.thelocal.se/39942/20120328/
A Swedish court judge has been slammed for a recent ruling in which he wrote it was "quite understandable" that a man hit his wife after she refused to tell him where she had been.
The incident marks the second time the judge has been rapped for issuing a ruling considered to be degrading towards women, according to Swedish legal trade publication Dagens Juridik.
The judge, who sits on the Attunda District Court, north of Stockholm, issued the ruling after hearing a case of a man charged for assaulting his wife.
"In addition, the woman made herself unreachable by telephone, by which XX, who with justified suspicions of mischief, concern, and growing jealousy had tried to reach her," the judge wrote in the ruling.
"When she finally saw it fit to come home and XX questioned her behaviour his wife answered that she didn't need to tell him with whom of where she had been. In light of her behaviour, it's highly understandable that XX felt insulted, angry, and despondent and, as an impulse reaction, doled out a slap."
The judge went on to say that a comparable behaviour wouldn't have resulted in an indictment had the incident occurred in France, for example.
"In other countries, with a more patriarchal perspective, XX's reaction would have been considered both called for and appropriate," the judge wrote.
Following the ruling, the judge was slammed by Sweden's Parliamentary Ombudsman (Justitieombudsmannen – JO) for a ruling it considered to be written in a "completely unacceptable manner".
A Swedish court judge has been slammed for a recent ruling in which he wrote it was "quite understandable" that a man hit his wife after she refused to tell him where she had been.
The incident marks the second time the judge has been rapped for issuing a ruling considered to be degrading towards women, according to Swedish legal trade publication Dagens Juridik.
The judge, who sits on the Attunda District Court, north of Stockholm, issued the ruling after hearing a case of a man charged for assaulting his wife.
"In addition, the woman made herself unreachable by telephone, by which XX, who with justified suspicions of mischief, concern, and growing jealousy had tried to reach her," the judge wrote in the ruling.
"When she finally saw it fit to come home and XX questioned her behaviour his wife answered that she didn't need to tell him with whom of where she had been. In light of her behaviour, it's highly understandable that XX felt insulted, angry, and despondent and, as an impulse reaction, doled out a slap."
The judge went on to say that a comparable behaviour wouldn't have resulted in an indictment had the incident occurred in France, for example.
"In other countries, with a more patriarchal perspective, XX's reaction would have been considered both called for and appropriate," the judge wrote.
Following the ruling, the judge was slammed by Sweden's Parliamentary Ombudsman (Justitieombudsmannen – JO) for a ruling it considered to be written in a "completely unacceptable manner".