The website of the Supreme Court of Finland provides cases, including a small collection of case summaries in English, procedural guidance, annual reports, statistics and other information. The site is mainly in Finnish or Swedish, but also offers content in Sami, English, French, Russian, German and Estonian.
Online guide to Finnish law, by Sami Sarvilinna, who works as city counsel for the city of Helsinki, and Erika Bergström, Chief Information Specialist at the Library of the Parliament of Finland. Last updated in 2018, the guide is published on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law. The author covers both Finnish and English-language resources on the Internet.
The Finnish Financial Supervision Authority (FSA) "supervises financial markets and participants" in Finland. The FSA works in connection with the Bank of Finland, but is independent and takes its mandate from the Act on FSA of 1993 (included in an English-language version). The site presents various documents pertaining to the FSA's strategy, procedure, objectives and history. News, updates, annual reports and some articles are presented, and longer documents are in PDF.
A resource site and Internet gateway service giving access in particular to Norwegian primary and secondary legal materials on the Internet as well as providing comprehensive link collections covering other Nordic countries (including Denmark, Finland, Greenland, Iceland and Sweden, other jurisdictions round the world and international and European law in general.) The service has been developed as a joint project by the Law faculties at the Universities of Oslo, Bergen and Tromso in Norway.
The website of the Supreme Administrative Court of Finland provides cases from 2002 onwards (in Swedish or Finnish) and selected case summaries in English from 2017 onwards. It also makes available the Court's annual reports, together with procedural and other information. The full site is available in Finnish and Swedish, with limited versions in Sami, English and French.
Section of WorldLII's Countries service dedicated to Finland. A series of browse and search facilities offer links to internet sites relating to Finland's Courts, Government, Legislation, and Parliament with topical sections focusing on: Infrastructure, Intellectual Property and Privacy. Stored searches offer automatic queries on all of the WorldLII catalog or databases. This section of WorldLII was developed from work initiated by Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII).
Hosted by Finland's Ministry of Justice (FINLEX), texts of the constitution updated to 2012 are available in Finnish, Swedish, English and Russian. Further texts of the constitution as 2000 are available in German, French, Spanish and Sami.
Web pages of the Finnish Ministry of Justice in Helsinki. The pages are in Finnish, and some pages are in English or Swedish. The Ministry is responsible for legal policy, statute policy and the administration of justice in Finland. Particular duties of the Ministry include the drafting of laws, safeguarding the work of the judiciary, the punishment of offenders, and participating in the making of EU legislation. An organisational chart is included in English, and current legal news items are also available.
English-language webpages of the Finnish Patent and Registration Office of Finland. Basic information on the trade register of business and industry in Finland is included, as is a list of the application fees for patents. Trademark statistics are available.
Free online version of 'Scandinavian Studies in Law', a series of books published by the Stockholm Institute for Scandinavian Law at Stockholm University. The series covers the law of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and presents articles by Scandinavian lawyers and legal scholars translated into English. Each volume focuses on a particular legal topic. All but the last few volumes can be accessed for free using the 'Sc.St.L. Database'. The Scandinavian Studies in Law website also includes a list of abbreviations used in the series, and a help page.
