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5 unusual facts about Supreme Court of Norway


Bratsberg Line

During the 1920s the two companies brought their disagreements to court; on 7 April 1923 the Supreme Court ruled in favor of NSB, and Norsk Hydro had to continue subsidizing operations.

Gunnar Larsen

A film version of To mistenkelige personer was directed by Tancred Ibsen in 1950, but showing the film in public was forbidden in the Supreme Court of Norway in 1952, in order to protect one of the persons whose story it was based on.

Norsk Retstidende

Norsk Retstidende publishes judgements of the Supreme Court of Norway, and rulings of the Appeals Selection Committee.

Vivi Krogh

She was in 1981 convicted for anti-Islamic hate speech by the Norwegian Supreme Court under Norway's so-called "racism paragraph" (§ 135a), and received a suspended 60-day sentence.

She was initially convicted to a 120 days suspended sentence, but after an appeal to the Supreme Court got the sentence reduced to 60 days.


Kirsten Sandberg

She is Professor of Law at the University of Oslo Faculty of Law, served as Acting Supreme Court Justice in the Supreme Court of Norway 2010–2011, and was in 2011 elected a member of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child as the nominee of the Government of Norway.


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