Communication No. 53/1979
Submitted byx К. В. on 16 June 1979
Alleged victim: The author
State party: Norway
Date of decision on inadmissibility: 14 August 1979 (seventh session)
the Supreme Court was rejected by the Judicial Select
Appeals Committee on 20 March 1979. A petition for a
review of the decision of the Judicial Select Appeals
Committee was dismissed.
Property rights—Inadmissibility ratione materiae
The author of the communication, dated 16 June
1979, is a Norwegian citizen living in Norway, who in
herited a flat in Oslo in 1964, close to her home. She was
separated from her husband in 1975 after 26 years of
marriage. In December 1976, he sought by proceedings
before the Oslo Town Court to obtain the right, against
the author's will, to move into her flat, as a tenant. The
flat had been rented to unrelated persons since it came
into the ownership of the author. In a judgement
delivered in December 1977, the Oslo Town Court re
jected his claim.
The author alleges that the decision of the Court of
Appeals, having the effect of depriving her of the right
to dispose of her property, constitutes a breach of ar
ticles 2 (1), 3 and 26 of the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights.
The Human Rights Committee observes that the right
to dispose of property, as such, is not protected by any
provision of the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights.
The marriage was dissolved by divorce in February
1978, and by way of an administrative settlement by the
special court for matrimonial estates, the flat inherited
by the author was assigned to her as her property.
A thorough examination of the communication has
not revealed any facts in substantiation of the author's
claim that she is a victim of a breach by the State party
of articles 2 (1), 3 or 26 of the Covenant or of any other
rights protected by the Covenant.
The ex-husband appealed against the judgement of
the Oslo Town Court to the Court of Appeals, which in
November 1978 granted him the right to move into the
flat and, for that purpose, to deal directly with the
present tenants. The author's application to appeal to
The Human Rights Committee therefore decides:
The communication is inadmissible.
NINTH SESSION
Communication No. 59/1979
Submitted by: K. L. on 27 November 1978
Alleged victim: The author
State party: Denmark
Date of decision on inadmissibility: 26 March 1980 (ninth session)
Discrimination—Taxation—Unsubstantiated
tions
allega
sought to brand him as a mentally disturbed person and
thereby to ruin his social standing, in particular to the
detriment of his opportunities to further his studies and
to be gainfully employed. He also claims that the fact
that his name has repeatedly been misspelled by Danish
authorities is yet another manifestation of the
discriminatory treatment he has been subjected to.
The author of the communication (consisting of
numerous complaints dated between 27 November 1978
and 14 February 1980), K. L., is a Danish citizen of
Swedish descent, born on 28 November 1945. He directs
his complaints against various pubhc officials,
municipal and State authorities from several branches
of Government in Denmark on the ground, inter alia,
that they have persistently subjected him to discrimina
tion, because of his ethnic, religious and national
background and for political reasons, the Danish
authorities being allegedly permeated with radical leftist
political ideology and consequently holding persons like
the author, who do not claim to hold left wing political
convictions, in disfavour. As evidence of the conspiracy
against him, the author mentions, among many other
alleged facts, that Danish authorities have for years
One of the author's complaints is that, at the request
of his sister and with the aid of the police, he was
unlawfully brought to a hospital and kept there against
his will for seven days (25 February to 4 March 1977),
during which period he was subjected to a medical ex
amination on account of an alleged mental illness. He
sought unsuccessfully to obtain compensation for the
enforced and involuntary detention and alleges that the
failure to grant him compensation constitutes violations
by the State party of articles 9 (1), 9 (5), 10 (1), 14 (1),
17(1) and 26 of the International Covenant on Civil and
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