CEPEJ Member: Iwar ARNSTAD 

Norwegian Courts Administration 
Head of International secretariat 

Norway - European Cyberjustice Network member (ECN)

Ingrid OLSEN     
Head of Department for Innovation and Court Development at Norwegian Courts Administration

National Correspondent

Elisabeth Jøta HOLTER HANEVOLD
Senior Adviser
Department of Civil Affairs
The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Justice and Public Security

Pilot Courts

Agder District Court / Agder tingrett 
Christopher Bårtvedt ERIKSEN
Judge

Court of Appeal of Frostating / Frostating lagmannsrett Tinghuset
Ragnhild Ryssdal VADA
Judge

Evaluation Exercise

• Evaluation exercise - 2022 Edition
• Evaluation exercise - 2020 Edition
• Evaluation exercise - 2018 Edition
• Evaluation exercise - 2016 Edition
• Evaluation exercise - 2014 Edition
• 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
• 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):

Not available.

Links to relevant Institutions

• Ministry of Justice and the Police
• The National Courts Administration
• Lovdata (Norwegian law in English)

Resources

• Legal texts (Codes, laws, regulations etc.)
  • Lovdata
• Case-law of the higher court/s
• Other documents (e.g. forms)
  • Norges domstoler
  • Endringer i regjeringen

Events

• European Day of Civil Justice on 26 Oktober 2012 in Oslo

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