Partner

Main fields of practice:

• Criminal law (including extradition, European Arrest Warrant and other international matters)
  
• Family law, inheritance law (including child abduction cases)
  
• Claims for damages, tort law
  
• Litigation
• Human rights law
  
• Immigration, naturalization, deportation
  
• Administrative law
  

I have received received my Master of Laws degree from the University of Helsinki in 1985, and performed court training in the Iitti circuit. I worked as an associate counsel in the law office of Heikki Salo from 1987 to 1990, after which I became a partner at Fredman and Månsson. I have been a member of the Finnish Bar Association since 1989.

I have handled human rights cases. The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has delivered a judgement in 15 of these cases. I have also represented three clients in two cases in Court of Justice of the European Union  in Luxembourg. In Finland 25 of my cases has been accepted to the yearbook of the Supreme Court. 10 cases are included in the yearbook of the Supreme Administrative Court.

I am a board member of the Finnish Bar Association and chairman of the Bar's specialists' groups on Criminal Procedure Law and Human Rights Law. I am a member of the Government appointed National Discrimination Tribunal and was a member of the Government appointed Commission to inquire into the development trends of the court system in Finland. I maintain the Bar Association’s legal news service at www.asianajajaliitto.fi/informatiolegis.

I am a member of The European Criminal Bar Associaton.