25.06.2013: Haematological cancer in former students and employees of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) resulted in two cases being brought to court. The survivors claimed damages from the state as employer. The Court of Appeal did not agree that there was a causal relationship between the working environment and the illnesses, basing its decision on statements from the medical experts. However, the court had misunderstood the medical experts, who did not appear to realise how critical their choice of words is to the outcome of this type of case. In the summer of 1997, a professor...

30.10.2012: According to Section 167 of the Criminal Procedure Act, hospital-based forensic psychiatric observation of an assumed perpetrator can be undertaken by committing him or her to a psychiatric hospital or another suitable place of observation. The roles of the health personnel during hospital-based forensic psychiatric observation are different from those involved in the provision of health assistance. An observee is not regarded as a patient, unless he or she may need health assistance during the period of observation. Findings made during the observation should not be documented in the regular...