Lawyer, Med. Dr, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Treasurer for NKMR.

Mrs. Siv Westerberg, Lawyer, was born in Borås, Sweden as daughter of Bror and Magda (Karlsson) Öman. She is married to Dr Per Westerberg. They have two sons, Carl and Gösta and one daughter, Eva. Siv Westerberg's address is: Skårsgatan 45, S-412 69 Göteborg. Tel: + 46 - 31 - 40 29 88 (office), 40 82 96 (home) ; Fax: + 46 - 31 - 40 66 83.

Besides her mother language Swedish, Mrs Westerberg speaks English, German, French, Italian and Serbo-Croatic.

Siv Westerberg started her academic career by studying medicine at the Universities of Uppsala and Gothenburg in Sweden and for shorter periods also at the University of Bologna in Italy and the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

Siv Westerberg became medicine licentiate at the University of Uppsala, Sweden 1960. She was a hospital doctor at the University Clinics of Gothenburg 1960-1964. Due to her special interest in chemistry she worked as hospital doctor and did research work in the Clinical Laboratories of the University hospital Sahlgrenska Sjukhuset in Gothenburg, Sweden 1961-1963. During this time, Siv Westerberg published articles of renal physiology in scientific medical journals and together with H. A. Hansen published "Laboratorieundersökningar" a handbook on laboratory work. 1963-64 she was a hospital doctor in the infectious disease hospital of the University Clinics in Gothenburg and published: "Vaccination for overseas travellers" (Vaccination av utlandsresenärer.)

During the period 1964 - 1979 Mrs Westerberg was a general practitioner in Gothenburg. 1978 she published her book "Att vara läkare" (To be a physician) in Almqvist & Wiksell Förlag AB, Stockholm. During her time as general practitioner Siv Westerberg wrote numerous articles in newspapers and medical journals, in which she criticised the way in which Swedish Health Insurance treated industrial workers with occupational diseases and occupational accidents.

Mrs Westerberg studied Law at the University of Lund, Sweden and there received her Law degree juris kandidat in 1982. She practises as a lawyer in Gothenburg Sweden since 1982. Her Law office is specialised in medical and socio-medial cases. She has published numerous articles in Swedish and foreign newspapers on the subject of unnecessary taking of children into public care. She is a member of 5-Ettan, a working group for critical investigation of unnecessary taking of children into public care.

Siv Westerberg is also a founder and member of Nordisk Komité for Menneskerettigheder i Norden, a commission comprising the four Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, for the protection of children and parents in the cases of unnecessary taking of children into public care.

Mrs Westerberg has represented several of her clients and won cases against Sweden in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France.

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