SECOND SECTION
CASE OF D.R. AND OTHERS v. NORWAY
(Applications nos. 63307/17 and 38105/19)
 
 
 
 
JUDGMENT
 
 
 
 
STRASBOURG
12 September 2023
This judgment is final but it may be subject to editorial revision. In the case of D.R. and Others v. Norway,
The European Court of Human Rights (Second Section), sitting as a Committee composed of:
 Jovan Ilievski, President,
 Lorraine Schembri Orland,
 Diana Sârcu, judges,
and Dorothee von Arnim, Deputy Section Registrar,
Having regard to:
the applications 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 the applicants listed in the appended table (“the applicants”), on the various dates indicated therein;
the decisions not to disclose the applicants’ names;
the decision to give notice of the complaints concerning Article 8 of the Convention in both applications to the Norwegian Government (“the Government”), represented by their Agent, Mr M. Emberland, of the Attorney General’s Office (Civil Matters) and, with regard to application no. 38105/19, to declare the remainder of the application inadmissible;
the observations submitted by the Government in respect of both applications and the observations in reply submitted by the applicants in application no. 38105/19;
the interest expressed by the applicant in pursuing application no. 63307/17;
the comments submitted in respect of application no. 63307/17 by the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who had exercised their right to intervene (Article 36 § 1 of the Convention and Rule 44 § 1 of the Rules of Court);
the comments submitted in respect of application no. 63307/17 by the Government of the Czech Republic and the Ordo Iuris Institute for Legal Culture, who, in addition to the Government of the Slovak Republic, were granted leave to intervene by the President of the Section under Article 36 § 2 of the Convention and Rule 44 § 3 of the Rules of Court;
the decision to reject the respondent Government’s objections to the examination of the applications by a Committee;
Having deliberated in private on 11 July 2023,
Delivers the following judgment, which was adopted on that date:
SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASES
1. The applications concern complaints under Article 8 of the Convention relating to withdrawals of and limitations on the applicants’ right to contact with their children who had been taken into public care. The complete list of applicants and the relevant details of the applications are set out in the appended table.

Outcome for Article 8: violation