The Appeals Selection Committee of the Supreme Court (in

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Høyesteretts ankeutvalg) was originally a court of

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in its own right, however, it does not anymore constitute an instance – a case will be decided upon ''either'' by the Appeals Selection Committee ''or'' by the

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. The Appeals Selection Committee intermittently comprises three

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s appointed by the

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. In penal cases which have been appealed from the

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(Court of Appeals) and in

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cases where the appeal pertained to a substance valued at less than

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100,000, a leave from the Appeals Selection Committee is required for the case to be tried before the Supreme Court. Besides, the Appeals Selection Committee is authorized to reject appeals if, among other things, the possibility of a successful appeal is obviously non-existent.Tvistemålsloven § 373 Besides, the Appeals Selection Committee is the final authority on appeals. The rulings of the Appeals Selection Committee are published in ''

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'' (Norwegian Law Reports). Pursuant to the implementation on January 1, 2008 of the ''Lov om mekling og rettergang i sivile tvister'' ( tvisteloven), the Appeals Selection Committee of the Supreme Court changed its Norwegian name from ''Høyesteretts kjæremålsutvalg'' to Høyesteretts ankeutvalg, on account of the sole use of the term ''anke'' (appeal) instead of the antiquated synonymous term ''kjæremål''.

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Jon Gisle Jon Gisle (born 19 November 1948) is a Norway, Norwegian jurist, encyclopedist and philologist. Biography He is cand.philol. (1974) and cand.jur. (1998) from the University of Oslo. He was publishing editor from 1977 to 1980 in Kunnskapsforlaget. ...

, ''et al.'': ''Jusleksikon'',

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, Oslo (2003).

External links

''The Courts Code''

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