The municipality agrees with the brothers on the payment – VG

Up-to-date much less than 10 minutes in the past

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In 2018, VG disclosed that Lars Peder Holøyen and Magnus Holøyen experienced been registered as mentally disabled by the municipality without the need of obtaining a diagnosis. Then they stayed put beneath guardianship towards his will.

An investigation later set up this the method was deficient “… in all locations and stages that have been investigated”.

In August, VG wrote that the brothers essential up to 50 percent a million crowns each individual by way of compensation from the municipality of belonging.

– Settled

On Friday, the municipality of Tolga introduced on its web site that there experienced been a improvement in the situation.

– “The functions in the” Tolga scenario “have reached an agreed out-of-court resolution. The municipality has no responses over and above this, a concept reads.

The attorney Jørgen Losgård Stræte, symbolizing the municipality of Tolga, is incredibly secretive about the material of the settlement.

– I are unable to say just about anything about it. The situation has now been fixed and what the municipality said about the case formerly even now retains true, Stræte told VG.

In January, six times ended up established apart for the scenario prior to the Østre Innlandet District Courtroom.

– To what extent does the agreement entail a concession by the municipality?

– I simply cannot comment on this, replies Stræte, who does not want to remark on what the municipality has uncovered from the so-named Tolga circumstance, nor if the transaction entails an arrangement to preserve the contents hidden from the general public.

The mayor of the municipality of Tolga, Bjørnar Tollan (SV) is even far more thrifty of words and phrases about the settlement than the attorney of the municipality.

– I have no reviews on this, Tollan responses all of VG’s queries.

– Injustice and violation

The brothers’ attorney, Nicolai Skjerdal, beforehand pointed to the remedy of the brothers as a grave violation of Report 3 of the ECHR, which promotions with the prohibition of degrading treatment method. He also referred to a violation of Posting 8 on the suitable to regard for non-public and family life.

– Lars Peder and Magnus Holøyen are trying to find compensation for the injustice and violation they were uncovered to for being wrongly registered as mentally disabled and for remaining put underneath guardianship from their will without enough authorized authority, the quotation reads.

– In addition to reiterating that the municipality of Tolga has a distinctive check out of the scenario from that of the plaintiffs, the municipality has no additional observations at the minute, lawyer Stræte wrote to VG in August.

Payment statements to equally the Tolga municipality and the state had been to start with filed in 2020. But each the district court docket and the appellate court felt that the lawsuit should not be directed to the municipality, but to the point out. In February of this 12 months, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the brothers who have the appropriate to sue the municipality of Tolga.

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