News and current topics from various practice areas and industries

Rune Mykkeltvedt and Liv Zimmermann have revised the Karnov legal commentary on the Norwegian Outdoor Recreation Act.

As NRK writes, we are seeing a sharp increase in various types of fraud. NRK describes a particularly worrying trend where elderly women are visited at home by people posing as police officers or bank employees. This is just one example of a range of increasingly widespread and sophisticated fraud methods.

Developers are constantly searching for attractive plots of land for development. The seller may, for example, be the owner of an agricultural property with a plot of land attached to the farm. The plot of land can be sold as undeveloped land or as more developed plots where the seller has incurred development costs.

A legislative amendment has granted the Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority the power to impose significantly higher fines on businesses that violate the Working Environment Act. The fine, known as an administrative fee, can now be up to six million NOK or four percent of the company’s turnover. This change applies to all companies and enterprises.

7th of May, the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo organized a labor law lunch entitled “On the possibility of trade unions to exclude members.” University lecturer Niklas Selberg from Lund University gave the introductory speech, and lawyer Christopher Hansteen from Hjort gave a prepared commentary.

In August 2023, the government announced what is described as a “power and industry boost for Finnmark”. The government’s goal is for both more grid and new power production to be in place by 2030. On April 25, NVE held an information meeting where an update was given on NVE’s work to strengthen the grid and production capacity in Finnmark.

Lawyers Monica Syrdal and Eivind Grimsø Moe have written a Norwegian legal commentary on the Digital Performance Act for Gyldendal Rettsdata.

Investigations are an examination method used in situations where there have been allegations of reprehensible conduct or claims thereof. With an increased focus on ethics and work environment, the number of investigations has risen, and many of them receive significant media attention.

Fortunately, the power situation in Norway is now far more reassuring than it was when the government announced the new control mechanism in the fall of 2022. Although power prices in southern Norway are higher than what we have previously been used to in Norway, NVE considers the resource situation to be good. Despite this, power producers are still subject to a separate reporting scheme until May 2024.