ABOVE THE LAW
QUISLINGIST RULINGS '
(Received February 13, 1 p.m.)
LONDON, February 12,
"The Times" correspondent at Stocks holm states that the Quisli.ngists have arrested M. Paal Berg, president of the Norwegian Supreme Court, and M. Erik Slem, 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 uti-h-s they are approved by the Terbovp (?), whose ordinances are outside the 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 apparently places the entire Quisling Government above the law.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 37, 13 February 1941, Page 10
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