Tag: courts
Experts justify Jensen’s jail term
Norway's longest prison term of 21 years is rarely handed out and even convicted murderers have been known to avoid it. Questions have thus...
Police pressured to probe corruption
UPDATED: Oslo Police Chief Hans Sverre Sjøvold has admitted there were "several indications" that Eirik Jensen, one of the police force's most trusted and...
Government tries to toughen jail terms
Norway's conservative government coalition hopes to raise the maximum jail terms judges can hand out in cases of violent and sexual crime. It had to...
Court backs revocation of 17-year resident’s citizenship
The Oslo City Court (Oslo Tingrett) sided on Monday with state immigration authorities who claim that a bioengineer at Oslo University Hospital Ullevål lied about his...
Court dumps Breivik’s prison complaint
UPDATED: Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is not being subjected to prison conditions that violate his human rights, according to an appeals court...
Corruption case inspires books, film
As Norway's biggest narcotics and police corruption case ever entered its seventh week on Monday, not everyone in the courtroom is involved or mere spectators....
Mass-murderer’s appeals cost millions
As the latest rounds in court instigated by mass-murderer Anders Behring Breiving wound down last month, the bills he's created for Norwegian taxpayers keep...
Norway to drop jury system on appeal
A majority in Parliament asked the government in 2015 to replace its appeals court jury system with a combination of professional and lay judges....
Police can’t win corruption case
NEWS ANALYSIS: Norway's landmark and lengthy police corruption case entered its second week behind closed doors on Monday, as testimony turned to names and...
Mass-murderer Breivik back in court
The young right-wing Norwegian extremist who killed 77 people on July 22, 2011 was due to be back in a make-shift courtroom at his high-security prison...
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