NAZIS ABOVE LAW IN NORWAY
High Judge Arrested
LONDON, February 12.
•'The Times” correspondent at Stockholm states that the Quhslingists have arrested Al. I’aal Berg, president of the Norwegian Supreme Court, and M. Erik Siem, another Supreme Court judge. The reason is not. disclosed. A Supreme Court which the Quislingists have appointed to .succeed the old Court has now proclaimed itself not entitled to uphold Norwegian laws unless they were approved by the Reich Commissioner, Herr Terboven, whose ordinances are outside rhe Court’s jurisdiction. A merchant appealing against a sentence invoked the article in The Hague Convention obliging occupying troops to respect the 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 apparent ly places Hie entire Quisling Govern ii.eiii above the law.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 120, 14 February 1941, Page 7
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