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Haakon Thallaug
Haakon Thallaug (26 April 1903 – 1984) was a Norwegian barrister. He was born in Lillehammer as a son of attorney and politician Axel Thallaug (1866–1938) and Julie Louise Augusta Prytz (1877–1929). In 1929 he married Ingeborg Benedicte Hagerup Thoresen, daughter of ship-owner Ole Røed Thoresen. He finished his secondary education in 1922 and graduated from the Royal Frederick University with the cand.jur. degree in 1928. He studied copyright law in Munich for one year, and then started as a junior solicitor in Lillehammer in 1929. He partnered up with barrister Eilif Moe in 1938 in the law firm ''Thallaug og Moe'', but ran his own law firm from 1954. During the war he was imprisoned, and from 1945 to 1946 he was the acting police chief of Oppland. He was a prominent figure in the cultural life of Sør-Gudbrandsdalen. He chaired De Sandvigske Samlinger from 1964 to 1975, having chaired the friends' association since 1939. He also chaired the supervisory committee of A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barrister
A barrister is a type of lawyer in common law jurisdictions. Barristers mostly specialise in courtroom advocacy and litigation. Their tasks include taking cases in superior courts and tribunals, drafting legal pleadings, researching law and giving expert legal opinions. Barristers are distinguished from both solicitors and chartered legal executives, who have more direct access to clients, and may do transactional legal work. It is mainly barristers who are appointed as judges, and they are rarely hired by clients directly. In some legal systems, including those of Scotland, South Africa, Scandinavia, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, and the British Crown dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man, the word ''barrister'' is also regarded as an honorific title. In a few jurisdictions, barristers are usually forbidden from "conducting" litigation, and can only act on the instructions of a solicitor, and increasingly - chartered legal executives, who perform tasks such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
