Audvar Os (8 September 1920 – 25 June 2014) was a Norwegian barrister and civil servant. He was born in

Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...

. He served as assistant secretary in the Ministry of Justice and the Police from 1956 to 1961, and then worked as a lawyer. From 1963 he had access to

Supreme Court A supreme court is the highest court within the hierarchy of courts in most legal jurisdictions. Other descriptions for such courts include court of last resort, apex court, and high (or final) court of appeal. Broadly speaking, the decisions of ...

cases. From 1967 to 1981 he worked for Oslo municipality, and from 1982 to 1990 he was the

Norwegian Parliamentary Ombudsman for Public Administration The Norwegian Parliamentary Ombud (), formerly the Norwegian Parliamentary Ombudsman (), is the ombudsman appointed by the Norwegian Parliament to safeguard the rights of individual citizens in their dealings with all levels of the public adminis ...

. Os was awarded the Order of St. Olav in 1986.

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Lawyers from Oslo Parliamentary ombudspersons in Norway Civil servants from Oslo 1920 births 2014 deaths {{norway-law-bio-stub