Restorative Justice (RJ) is an alternative way of apprehending crime and justice which views crime as a violation of a relationship among victims, offenders and community, and which allows the active participation of the crime’s stakeholders. It has the objective of ‘putting right’ the wrong done, to restore the broken relationship and to reintegrate the offender back into society. The Ethiopian ...

May life be taken in order to defend other values than life and health? Until the new provision on the right to life in the Norwegian constitution, Norwegian law would seem to have allowed for this, whereas our obligations under international law, especially under the European Convention on Human Rights, would seem to prohibit it. This text argues among others for a revision of the penal law ...

In this article, the author questions the legitimacy of the general ban on trade in seal products adopted by the European Union. It is submitted that the EU Seal Regime, which permits the marketing of Greenlandic seal products derived from Inuit hunts, but excludes Canadian and Norwegian seal products from the European market, does not ensure a satisfactory degree of animal welfare protection ...

I artikkelen analyseres gjeldende regler for mekling i konflikter om omsorgsorganisering. Forfatteren diskuterer så vel organiseringen av meklingen som formålet med meklingen. Et sentralt utgangspunkt er at meklingen i større grad må tilpasses familier med underliggende problematikk og at dette forutsetter en kartlegging av bakgrunnen for det høye konfliktnivået i familien. Forfatteren analyserer ...

<p>Norwegian civil procedure scores well on efficiency as measured in average time for case processing and for achieving high trust among the public. General litigious civil and commercial cases are on average processed in approximately six months and small claims civil cases in four months. On average, a case has passed through both the District Court and the Court of Appeal within 13 months. The ...

Active use of the preparatory stage to promote a concentrated main hearing is a key element in Norwegian civil procedure. The judge actively manages the cage and prepares it for the main hearing. Judicial discretion is an important tool to allow the judge to tailor the proceedings to the need of the parties. If an issue or question is unclear, the judge has a duty to help the parties clarify the ...

Norway has stood on the doorsteps of the European Union (then the European Communities (EC)) for more than four decades. In 1960, Norway became one of the seven original members of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), a trade-blocalternative to the European Economic Community (EEC). The Norwegian people voted against EC-membership in 1972 and 1994. In the late 1980's, a plan to create a single ...

Forfatterens utgangspunkt er at overgang til tidsuavgrensede fisketillatelser i kystfiskeflåten vil være skjellsettende. Denne type tillatelser har hittil bare vært brukt i havfiskeflåten, men har manglet legitimitet i kystfiskeflåten. I denne flåtegruppen har eksklusiv høstingsadgang for et begrenset antall fartøy bare vært et lovlig virkemiddel for ett år av gangen, jf. deltakerloven § 21. I NOU ...

6 February 2017 marks the centenary of The First Sámi Congress, which is also the reason that we today celebrate the 6th of February as the Sámi National Day. The First Congress will be thoroughly celebrated in Trondheim where it originally took place. Such an anniversary naturally inspires reflection on what the Sámi have achieved in the years since Elsa Laula Renberg and other visionary Sámi leaders ...

The European Union and the Arctic brings together academics from a range of disciplines to discuss the EU's potential roles in shaping Arctic governance. The book is divided into three parts. The first part examines the EU’s current Arctic policy framework. The second part focuses on the EU’s engagement with Arctic governance at the regional level and encompasses the EU’s engagement with the so-called ...