2025
Two fraudsters, acting on the instructions of ringleaders, presented themselves as officers from Økokrim and informed an elderly woman that they were assisting her in preventing her bank account fr...
Stikkord: Criminal law. Section 254 of the Penal Code. Criminal procedure. Non-economic damages.
2025-12-19
The Supreme Court of Norway - Judgment
Fredrikstad municipality has levied property tax for many years. As a general rule, properties must be valued by means of a general valuation every ten years. The valuation may be postponed for up ...
Stikkord: Property tax, general valuation, administrative adjustment kontorjustering.
2025-12-19
The Supreme Court of Norway - Judgment
The convicted person had committed extensive economic crime, with a total potential loss exceeding NOK 3 million. The question before the Supreme Court was whether the convicted person's care respo...
Stikkord: Criminal law, community sentence, section 48 of the Penal Code.
2025-12-19
The Supreme Court of Norway - Judgment
The case concerned a residential property in Oslo that had been owned by a limited liability company since 1919. The company was dissolved in 2003 without the land register title being transferred ...
Stikkord: Document duty law, section 1 subsection 2 of the Storting's Document Duty Resolution.
2025-12-19
The Supreme Court of Norway - Order
In two judgments, the Supreme Court considered whether vandalism of property committed in connection with demonstrations against the Government's oil policy may lead to exemption from criminal liab...
Stikkord: Criminal law, vandalism, human rights, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, Article 100 of the Constitution, the Aarhus Convention.
2025-12-18
The Supreme Court of Norway - Judgment
In two judgments, the Supreme Court considered whether vandalism of property committed in connection with demonstrations against the Government's oil policy may lead to exemption from criminal liab...
Stikkord: Criminal law, vandalism, human rights, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, Article 100 of the Constitution, the Aarhus Convention.
2025-12-18
The Supreme Court of Norway - Judgment
A father applied to Nav for a determination of child support for his son, who resides with him. Nav set the support at zero on the ground that the mother lacked the financial means to contribute. T...
Stikkord: Children law, section 70 subsection 3 of the Children Act. Civil procedure, sections 1-3 and 19-15 of the Dispute Act.
2025-12-18
The Supreme Court of Norway - Order
31 foster parents in emergency foster homes in Oslo municipality claimed permanent employment, compensation for non-economic loss, and enrolment in the municipal occupational pension scheme. Under ...
Stikkord: Employment law. Section 1-8 of the Working Environment Act. The boundary between employee and independent contractor. EEA law and the reach of the presumption principle.
2025-12-18
The Supreme Court of Norway - Judgment
Two men were charged with attempting to cultivate 175 cannabis plants, which in total would have yielded at least 5,250 grams of smokable material containing THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), the active ...
Stikkord: Criminal law, drugs.
2025-12-11
The Supreme Court of Norway - Judgment
The defendant was convicted in the District Court and the Court of Appeal of sexual activity with a child under the age of 14 and of involvement with depictions of sexual abuse of children. The Sup...
Stikkord: Criminal law. Section 299 of the Penal Code. Reasoning.
2025-12-11
The Supreme Court of Norway - Judgment
The arranger of a bond loan forwarded information from the issuer of the loan to potential investors. It later turned out that the information was based on forged documents and deliberately false s...
Stikkord: Tort law, securities law.
2025-12-08
The Supreme Court of Norway - Judgment
In the autumn of 2020, Oslo municipality conducted a tendering procedure for the operation of up to 800 nursing home places. The procedure was reserved for «non-profit organisations», meaning entit...
Stikkord: Procurement of nursing home operations in Oslo municipality was conducted in accordance with established rules.
2025-12-08
The Supreme Court of Norway - Judgment
A farmer in Trøndelag was required to surrender around 3 percent of his cultivated land for road construction. The issue before the Supreme Court was which interest to apply when future loss of inc...
Stikkord: Expropriation compensation law. Capitalisation rate.
2025-11-28
The Supreme Court of Norway - Judgment
The case concerns the capitalisation rate in the expropriation of a forest property. Where compensation for loss of use value is paid as a lump sum, future income must be discounted to present valu...
Stikkord: Exproporiation law. Article 105 of the Constitution, sections 6 and 10 of the Expropriation Compensation Act, section 38 of the Valuation Procedure Act.
2025-11-28
The Supreme Court of Norway - Judgment
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
Several individuals conspired to lure a young boy into a trap, commit violence against him and destroy his mobile phone, which was taken.The question before the Supreme Court was whether it was cor...
Stikkord: Criminal law, section 327 of the Penal Code.
2025-11-21
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