CEPEJ: Country profile: NORWAY

Country profile: NORWAY

CEPEJ Member		National Correspondent
Audun BERG Senior Advisor The National Courts Administration +47 73 56 70 audun.berg@domstoladministrasjonen.no		Linda Katharina DRAZDIAK Section for European and international Affairs Ministry of Justice - and the Police +47 22 24 54 56 Linda.drazdiak@jd.dep.no internasjonalt.sekretariat@jd.dep.no

Member of the Lisbon Network		Pilot Courts
		Dag BRATHOLE Court of Appeal of Frostating Frostating lagmannsrett Tinghuset N–7004 TRONDHEIM + 47 7354 2473 / 909 25 906 + 47 552 37 351 dag.brathole@domstol.no Organisation Chart of the Court Website of the Court: http://frostating.no/en/the-hierarchy-of-the-courts.aspx Bernt BAHR Chief Judge Nedre Romerike tingrett Jonas Lies gate 20 NO - 2000 Lillestrøm +47 64 84 29 00 +47 64 84 29 22 nedre.romerike.tingrett@domstol.no http://www.domstol.no/nedreromerike Organisation Chart of the Court

Evaluation Exercise
Evaluation exercise - 2012 Edition Evaluation exercise - 2010 Edition - Study of 16 comparable countries (by Jean-Paul JEAN, President of the GT-EVAL working group) / 11/2010 [fr] - Visit report of the peer review evaluation group on judicial statistics - Oslo - 19/20 May 2010 Evaluation exercise - 2008 Edition Evaluation exercise - 2006 Edition Pilot scheme

Translations of CEPEJ documents (if available):


Links to relevant Institutions		Resources
Ministry of Justice and the Police The National Courts Administration Lovdata (Norwegian law in English)		Legal texts (Codes, laws, regulations etc.) www.lovdata.no Case-law of the higher court/s Other documents (e.g. forms) www.domstol.no www.regjeringen.no

Recent developments in the judicial field
Reports on the implementation of the CEPEJ guidelines for judicial time management in 7 pilot courts / institutions (Czech Republic, Georgia, Italy, Norway, Switzerland, United Kingdom) (March 2011) Peer’s evaluation: In the framework of the peer’s evaluation activity of the CEPEJ, aimed to examine statistical data collecting systems in the member States, Norway brought together, on 19 and 20 May 2010 in Oslo, the CEPEJ’s peers and representatives of 5 Nordic countries (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Iceland) in view of exchanging their experience concerning file management systems in the Courts, the granting of resources to courts, legal aid and the more general aspect of reliability of judicial data.

Organisational chart of the system of justice
The hierarchy of the Courts