Norwegian law biography stubs

Henrik_Bahr

Henrik Eiler Støren Bahr (3 October 1902 – 27 July 1982) was a Norwegian judge.
He was born in Christiania, a son of dentist Frithjof Bahr. He was appointed Justice of the Supreme Court of Norway from 1945. He was member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague from 1957.
He was decorated Commander of the Swedish Order of the Polar Star, and Commander of the Order of St. Olav. He died in July 1982 and was buried at Vestre gravlund.

Cato_Schiøtz

Cato Schiøtz (born 26 July 1948) is a Norwegian barrister.
He was born in Oslo. He worked as a lecturer at the University of Oslo from 1975 to 1978, and also as a deputy judge in Sør-Gudbrandsdal before being hired in the law firm Schjødt in 1978. He became a partner in the firm in 1983. After 40 years, in 2018 he moved on to the law firm Glittertind.Schiøtz has also been active in the Liberal Party and is a well-known cultural figure in Norway, both as an anthroposophist and a member of the Bibliophile Club.

Arne_Fliflet

Arne Fliflet (born 21 May 1946) is a Norwegian jurist and civil servant.
He graduated with the cand.jur. degree in 1971. After some years as a university lector at the University of Oslo, he worked as a deputy judge in Sunnfjord from 1974 to 1975.
He was a junior solicitor from 1975, lawyer in the Office of the Attorney General of Norway from 1979 to 1986 and a private lawyer from 1987. He was appointed Norwegian Parliamentary Ombudsman for Public Administration in 1990, and served until 2014.

Vera_Louise_Holmøy

Vera Louise Holmøy (27 April 1931 in Oslo – 12 December 2021) was a Norwegian judge.
She was hired in the Ministry of Justice and the Police in 1957, became assisting secretary in 1965 and deputy under-secretary of State in 1974. She was a Supreme Court Justice from 1976 to 2001.Vera Louise Holmøy was married to judge Tor Holmøy. She died at the age of 90.

Toril_Marie_Øie

Toril Marie Øie (born 17 July 1960) is Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Norway.
She was born in Oslo, and graduated as cand.jur. in 1986. She worked in the Ministry of Justice and the Police from 1986 to 2006, except for the period 1988 to 1990 when she was an acting district stipendiary magistrate. From 1994 she was also a part-time university lector at University of Oslo. She was a Supreme Court Justice from 2004 to 2016.

Erik_Møse

Erik Møse (born 9 October 1950) is a Norwegian judge. Møse has been a judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), Supreme Court of Norway, and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). At the ICTR, he served as Vice President and later President. Having retired from his judicial career, he is currently serving as Chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine.

Harald_Stabell

Harald Stabell (16 January 1947 – 15 December 2018) was a Norwegian barrister.
He worked as a defender in Eidsivating Court of Appeal from 1990 to 1995 and in Borgarting Court of Appeal and Oslo City Court from 1995. Since 2005 he was a barrister with access to Supreme Court cases.He lived in Oslo, and was a ticket candidate for the communist political party Red.

Carl_Ferdinand_Gjerdrum_(barrister)

Carl Ferdinand Gjerdrum (9 April 1898 – 9 February 1945) was a Norwegian jurist and resistance member.
He was born in Kristiania as a son of Albert Gjerdrum and Olivia Kloumann. He was a grandson of Carl Ferdinand Gjerdrum, grandnephew of Jørgen Gjerdrum and Otto Gjerdrum and great-grandson of Ole Gjerdrum. In 1926 in Lillehammer he married Aase Filseth, of Danish descent, a sister of Tyge and Kaare Filseth.
By occupation Carl Ferdinand Gjerdrum was a barrister, a lawyer with access to Supreme Court cases, like his father. The law firm was named A. Gjerdrum og C. F. Gjerdrum, and had its offices in the Oslo's main street Karl Johans gate.During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany he was involved in a broad spectrum of work for the Norwegian resistance movement. He supplied resistance members with faux passports and helped them cross the border to neutral Sweden, he was involved in intelligence gathering, in the illegal press and with unveiling Norwegian denouncers. When the Nazi police leader Karl Marthinsen was assassinated by the Norwegian resistance on 8 February 1945, Gjerdrum was arrested together with thirty-three others, including Kaare Sundby, Haakon Sæthre and Jon Vislie, as a reprisal. At Akershus Fortress Gjerdrum was executed by gunshot on 9 February.