Supreme Court allows appeal when lower court ignored a mitigating sentence reduction factor under Criminal Code.

The Supreme Court of Finland allowed the appeal against a district court's refusal to grant a continuation of sentence permit. The district court failed to consider a sentence reduction factor under Section 6 of Chapter 7 of the Criminal Code and did not explain why it was disregarded. The court ruled that the lower court's omission of this mandatory consideration and lack of reasoning constituted a procedural error requiring the case to be remanded.