2025
The Sørlandet Line runs from Oslo to Stavanger. The section between Kristiansand and Stavanger is commonly referred to as «Sørlandsbanen Vest» and was built from the 1870s until 1944. A number of p...
Stikkord: Expropriation law.
2025-11-24
The Supreme Court of Norway - Judgment
Two youths were convicted of committing acts of violence and coercion, or for complicity in such acts, when they were 15 years old. The case was dismissed for two other individuals involved, both o...
Stikkord: Criminal law. Contribution. Section 15 of the Penal Code.
2025-11-19
The Supreme Court of Norway - Judgment
A 30-year-old man had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia following a comprehensive forensic psychiatric evaluation. The issue before the Supreme Court was whether he should be committed to ...
Stikkord: Criminal law, section 62 of the Penal Code. The Psychiatric Care Act.
2025-11-18
The Supreme Court of Norway - Judgment
During the investigation of a DUI case, a police prosecutor decided to examine forensic bakcup files from the suspect’s mobile phone - mirror copies of its contents. The phone had been found by a p...
Stikkord: Criminal law. Sections 171 and 172 of the Penal Code. Sections 197 and 192 of the Criminal Procedure Act.
2025-11-11
The Supreme Court of Norway - Judgment
The defendant had physically assaulted his spouse, first by hitting her in the bedroom, and then by grabbing her hair and banging her head against either a wall or a cabinet in the hallway. The spo...
Stikkord: Criminal law, section 266 of the Penal Code.
2025-10-28
The Supreme Court of Norway - Judgment
A municipality had rented a private residence, which was sublet for use in the resettlement of refugees. A fire broke out in the residence, and the parties agreed that the municipality was liable f...
Stikkord: Contractual liability. Mitigation. Section 2-14 of the Tenancy Act.
2025-10-22
The Supreme Court of Norway - Judgment
The case concerns the final settlement in a construction contract. A subsidiary of NorgesGruppen ASA entered into a contract with AF Gruppen Norge AS for the construction of a coffee processing fac...
Stikkord: Surety law and civil procedure, section 19-15 of the Dispute Act.
2025-10-22
The Supreme Court of Norway - Judgment
A man was subejcted to a ban on visit under section 222 a subsection 2 (b) of the Criminal Procedure Act. According to the provision, it may be prohibited to «pursue, visit or in any way contact an...
Stikkord: Criminal law. Restraining order. Section 222 a of the Criminal Procedure Act.
2025-10-20
The Supreme Court of Norway - Judgment
Two young men were found guilty of laundering proceeds from a fraud totalling NOK 179,000. They had acted as «money mules» by allowing their bank accounts to be used to receive the proceeds, which ...
Stikkord: Laundered proceeds were not confiscated. Criminal law, confiscation, section 69 of the Penal Code.
2025-10-20
The Supreme Court of Norway - Judgment
In 2010, a man was convicted of two counts of aggravated assault against his then-girlfriend. In 2024, he was indicted for two sexual assaults committed in connection with the same acts of violence...
Stikkord: Criminal procedure - enforcement - the prohibition of repeated prosecution - section 51 of the Criminal Procedure Act - ECHR P7-4.
2025-10-20
The Supreme Court of Norway - Judgment
A woman had subjected har partner's daughter to head trauma. The child, who was two years old, sustained very serious head injuries, including a 13-centimeter fracture at the back of the head and b...
Stikkord: Increased penalty for child abuse.
2025-10-13
The Supreme Court of Norway - Judgment
A man was sentenced to 48 days of imprisonment for five violations of a restraining order issued against a woman with whom he had previously been in a relationship. The Court of Appeal suspended 18...
Stikkord: No reduced sentence for electronic monitoring.
2025-10-07
The Supreme Court of Norway - Judgment
Kistefos AS and Kistefos Investment AS have brought a claim for damages against Pareto AS, which acted as financial advisor in connection with the refinancing of the shipping company Solstad Offsho...
Stikkord: Civil procedure. Evidentiary prohibition. Section 22-5 of the Dispute Act.
2025-10-06
The Supreme Court of Norway - Order
Slovak national was convicted of sexual assault in 2014 and sentenced to preventive detention with a time frame of seven years and a minimum period of four years. The detention period was subsequen...
Stikkord: Criminal law. Section 43, see section 40, of the Penal Code. Extension of preventive detention.
2025-09-25
The Supreme Court of Norway - Judgment
A man was sentenced by the Court of Appeal to four years of imprisonment for extensive economic crime. In accordance with the prosecution's request, he was also subjected to a deprivation of rights...
Stikkord: Criminal law, loss of rights, section 56 of the Penal Code.
2025-09-25
The Supreme Court of Norway - Judgment
Fair Group AS is a company whose purpose is to conduct debt collection activities. It has multiple shareholders, the two largest being Cerebus AS and Bilforum AS. In August 2023, the company sold i...
Stikkord: Company law, section 5-3 of the Companies Act.
2025-09-25
The Supreme Court of Norway - Judgment
A former chair of a limited liability company was sentenced to eight months of imprisonment for breaching the duty under section 407 of the Penal Code to file for insolvency. Økokrim also brought a...
Stikkord: Tort law. Bankruptcy law. Section 17-1 of the Companies Act.
2025-09-23
The Supreme Court of Norway - Judgment
A homebuilder in Sande, Vestfold, was granted a permit to construct a residence in 2001. In 2014, the municipality claimed that the permit had lapsed under section 96 of the 1985 Planning and Build...
Stikkord: Planning and building law. Section 96 of the 1985 Planning and Building Act. Section 21-9 of the 2008 Planning and Building Act.
2025-09-23
The Supreme Court of Norway - Judgment
A boy aged 15 years and 4 months had stabbed an 18-year-old with a knife. The Court of Appeal convicted him of attempted murder and ordered him to pay non-economic damages to the aggrieved party. T...
Stikkord: Tort law, aggravated damages, sections 1-1 and 3-5 of the Damage Compensation Act.
2025-09-18
The Supreme Court of Norway - Judgment
The case concerned a demand to cancel a contract for the purchase of a home. In the seller's self-declaration form, they had disclosed that there had previously been mice in the property and that u...
Stikkord: Real property. Section 3-10 of the Sale of Property Act. The buyer's duty to investigate.
2025-09-11
The Supreme Court of Norway - Judgment