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 ...

Mekling er et godt verktøy i barnefordelingssaker for å oppnå konfliktreduksjon mellom foreldre og robuste avtaler. Likevel kan mekling også lede til forlikspress, avtaler som ikke er i tråd med hensynet til barnets beste og saker som kan karakteriseres som "gjengangere". I denne artikkelen forsøker jeg analysere hvorfor mekling i følge undersøkelser ikke fungerer like godt i alle barnefordelingssaker ...

Most studies on the efficiency and quality of civil justices are limited to formal courts, although tribunals and other quasi-courts have a central role in resolving legal disputes in many European countries. Hence, significant parts of many civil justice systems are excluded from the studies. Differences among countries may thus reflect primarily structural and terminological differences rather ...

Norway has a population of 5.3 million people, of whom 1.1 million are children, i.e., under the age of 18. Almost half of marriages in the country end in divorce, the others end by the death of one of the partners. In 2018, the number of new mar-riages was 20,949, and there were 10,630 separations and 9,545 divorces. The number of minor children experiencing their par-ents’ divorce was 8,900. To ...

Reglene om anke til lagmannsretten ble revidert da tvisteloven ble vedtatt i 2005, men mye tyder på at revisjonen ikke har virket helt etter hensikten. Reglene har flere ganger senere blitt foreslått endret. I denne artikkelen blir det argumentert for at det bør gjøres mer grunnleggende endringer av ankereglene enn det som hittil har blitt vurdert. Forfatterne hevder at de norske ankereglene i for ...

This chapter consists of a comparative analyses of children’s constitutional rights in the Nordic countries. First, we analyse children’s constitutional rights in general in the Nordic countries to assess if and how a Constitution is in line with the child’s rights approach of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (crc). We build on a model developed by Conor O’Mahony that measures the protection ...

This chapter examines whether including children’s participatory rights in the Norwegian Constitution has had any legal or practical impact. It uses Susan White’s typology of participation rights as a tool for examining whether children’s participation is nominal, instrumental, representative or transformative. The preparatory works of the Norwegian Constitution are ambiguous. On the one hand, the ...

This chapter discusses first the value of enshrining children’s rights in national Constitutions in addition to implementing the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child. Second, it gives a brief introduction to the Nordic countries, their societies and legal systems, such as the Nordic welfare model, court systems and the sources of law. An introduction is also given to Nordic constitutional ...

Traditionally, European civil procedure systems have displayed a range of structures. Currently, systems are converging around the main hearing model, which international soft law initiatives on civil procedure also endorse. This text discusses the main content and principles of the main hearing model and its application in English, Finnish, German and Norwegian law. The influence of the underlying ...