The Appeal Court changed the sentence for aggravated robbery to court ordered drug programme
Our attorney, Lars Mathias Undheim, represented a woman charged with several offences, including aggravated robbery. Following proceedings before the Court of Appeal, her sentence was reduced from three and a half years of unconditional imprisonment to a fully suspended sentence of three years and three months, subject to her successful completion of a court-supervised drug […]
Adalat Advokatfirma assisted artist with cessation of forced psychiatric care
The law firm Adalat has successfully represented a client in securing the termination of a compulsory mental health care order. The client, an artist in his twenties, was previously sentenced to the measure following a violent incident involving an NRK television personality in 2020. The Oslo District Court has now ruled that the compulsory mental […]
State Acknowledges Human Rights Violation After Denying Prisoner Prescribed Medical Cannabis
The Norwegian State initially refused our client access to his legally prescribed medical cannabis while serving a prison sentence. Following legal action brought by the law firm Adalat, the State has now acknowledged that this amounted to a violation of his human rights. Attorney Lars Mathias Undheim of Adalat Law Firm represented Joakim Smaavik after […]
Client acquitted of money laundering of three million kroner
Attorney Lars Mathias Undheim represented a man who had been charged with laundering three million Norwegian kroner. After initially being convicted in the district court, the client appealed the verdict and was acquitted by the court of appeal. As a result, he went from facing one year and six months in prison to receiving no […]
The Jemtland case reopened following assistance from Adalat Law Firm
Svein Jemtland was convicted of killing his wife, Janne Jemtland. After receiving assistance from Adalat Law Firm, his case is being reopened due to unlawful strip searches. Like many others who have served time in Norwegian prisons, Jemtland was subjected to at least 350 unlawful routine strip searches while incarcerated. One of our fundamental values […]
Detainee serving preventive detention not given his rights
Attorney Lars Mathias Undheim and associate attorney Eivind Abrahamsen assisted a man serving preventive detention at Halden prison, after he reported that his rights were not being upheld. Through work on the case, it was revealed that Halden prison houses several individuals serving preventive detention, despite not being a designated institution for such inmates, and […]
Client acquitted of robbery
Attorney associate Eivind Abrahamsen assisted a man who was charged with robbery together with two others, but who denied guilt. After two days of court proceedings in the Vestfold District Court, the court concluded that the defendants should be acquitted. The client had been held in custody for five months while awaiting trial but ended […]
Adalat Law Firm helped uncover human rights violations in Norwegian prisons
In several cases, attorney Lars Mathias Undheim of Adalat Law Firm has helped uncover that Norwegian prisons are not providing inmates with prescribed medical cannabis. Last fall, attorney Undheim brought the matter to the Parliamentary Ombudsman, who agreed that the practice constituted a violation of the inmates’ human rights. “It is quite scandalous that something […]