Siv Hallgren (born 1964) is a

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lawyer and civil servant.

Career

She hails from

Bekkelaget Bekkelaget is a neighborhood in the borough Nordstrand in Oslo, Norway. Originally, Bekkelaget was the maritime area south of Oslo city, in Aker municipality adjacent to the Bunnefjorden. With the opening of the Østfold Line, Bekkelaget station ...

in Oslo. She graduated with the

cand.jur. Candidate of Law (Latin: ''candidatus/candidata juris/iuris'') is both a graduate law degree awarded to law students in the Nordic region as well as an academic status designation for advanced Law School students in German-speaking countries. ...

degree from the

University of Oslo The University of Oslo ( no, Universitetet i Oslo; la, Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the highest ranked and oldest university in Norway. It is consistently ranked among the top universit ...

in 1990. She was a prosecutor in Asker and Bærum Police District from 1994 to 2002, then a lawyer. She gained attention as a defender in the NOKAS robbery trial. In 2005, she was made partner in the law firm Elden. Among others, she was a coordinating court-appointed lawyer for victims during the

2011 Norway attacks The 2011 Norway attacks, referred to in Norway as 22 July ( no, 22. juli) or as 22/7, were two domestic terrorist attacks by neo-Nazi Anders Behring Breivik against the government, the civilian population, and a Workers' Youth League (AUF) ...

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, together with Frode Elgesem and Mette Yvonne Larsen. In late 2016 she was named as chair of the

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, assuming the chair in 2017. In her position, she especially received attention for the commission's deliberations of the Baneheia murder trial. She ultimately voted against reopening the conviction of Viggo Kristiansen, but as she was outvoted and the case was reopened, Kristiansen ended up being acquitted. In 2022 she was named as director of the

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Personal life

Hallgren was formerly married, before marrying

Arne Fliflet Arne Fliflet (born 21 May 1946) is a Norwegian jurist and civil servant. He graduated with the cand.jur. degree in 1971. After some years as a university lector at the University of Oslo, he worked as a deputy judge in Sunnfjord from 1974 to 1975. ...

in 2016.

References

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