LAW IN NORWAY
SET ASIDE BY QUISLING REGIME SUBSERVIENCE TO NAZIS. ALL RIGHTS ABANDONED. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Dav. 12.35 p.m.) LONDON. February 12. "The Times" Stockholm correspondent states that Quislingites arrested Paal Berg. President of the Norwegian Supreme Court and Erik Siem, another Supreme Court judge. The reason is not disclosed. The Supreme Court which the Quislingites appointed to succeed the old Court has now proclaimed itself not entitled to uphold Norwegian laws unless they are approved by the Reich Commissioner Terbovp, whose ordinances are outside the Court's jurisdiction. A merchant, appealing against a sentence. invoked an article of the Hague Convention obliging occupying troops to respect an occupied country’s laws, but the prosecution produced a document from the Quislingist Ministry of Justice declaring that the Supreme'and all other Courts have not the right to test or investigate the legal validity of the Reich Commissioner's decrees. The Ministry's ruling also apparently places the entire Quisling Government above the law.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 February 1941, Page 6
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162LAW IN NORWAY Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 February 1941, Page 6
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