M.L. v. NORWAY - 64639/16 (Judgment : Right to respect for private and family life : Fifth Section)

Art 8 • Respect for family life • Unjustified deprivation of parental responsibilities and authorisation for daughter to be adopted by her foster parents • Insufficient importance attached to the aim that placement in care be temporary and for an affected family to be reunited • Insufficient regard to the positive duty to take measures to reasonably preserve family bonds • Dialogue with Supreme Court and application of Strand Lobben

This judgment will become final in the circumstances set out in Article 44 � 2 of the Convention. It may be subject to editorial revision.

The European Court of Human Rights (Fifth Section), sitting as a Chamber composed of:

��������� S�ofra O�Leary, President, ��������� Mārtiņ� Mits, ��������� St�phanie Mourou-Vikstr�m, ��������� Jovan Ilievski, ��������� Lado Chanturia, ��������� Arnfinn B�rdsen, ��������� Mattias Guyomar, judges, and Victor Soloveytchik, Section Registrar,

the application (no. 64639/16 ) against the Kingdom of Norway lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (�the Convention�) by a Norwegian national, Ms M.L. (�the applicant�), on 27 October 2016;