Trygve Lange-Nielsen (9 July 1921 – 18 April 2014) was a Norwegian barrister and judge. He was born in

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as a son of

Fredrik Lange-Nielsen Fredrik Lange-Nielsen (13 May 1891 – 16 May 1980) was a Norwegian mathematician and insurance company manager. He chaired the Norwegian Students' Society, edited ''Norsk matematisk Tidsskrift'', and lectured at the University of Oslo. He was c ...

(1891–1980) and Laura Stang Lund (1893–1961). He was a maternal grandson of

Fredrik Stang Lund Fredrik Stang Lund (17 November 1859 – 13 June 1922) was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party. He was the mayor of Oslo briefly in 1895. On 14 October, 1895, he was appointed to the first cabinet Hagerup as both Minister of Auditing a ...

. In 1953 he married Sissel Herlofson. He

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his secondary education in 1940 and graduated with the

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degree in 1947. He was hired in the

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in 1951, and worked here until 1972, only interrupted by a few years in his own law firm. From 1956 he was a barrister, with access to working with Supreme Court cases. From 1972 to 1991 he was a presiding judge in

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. Despite passing the normal retirement age, he was then an extraordinary judge in

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from 1991 to 1995. His special fields included

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—he chaired ''Norsk forsikringsjuridisk avdeling'' from 1971 to 1982—and

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, in which he lectured at the

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. He did however become better known for unveiling and overturning miscarriage of justice cases, an endeavor to which he dedicated his later life. Lange-Nielsen also chaired the

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from 1971 to 1975. He resided in

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. He died in April 2014 in Oslo, following three weeks of illness.

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