NRK, “Høyesterett har talt: Staten kan ikke nekte Jehovas vitner statstilskudd og registrering”
“Supreme Court (5 judges) split 3-2 in favour of Jehovas vitner on the exclusion/free-withdrawal question; unanimous that children's rights were not violated; State to pay roughly NOK 100 million in retroactive grants plus over NOK 10.5 million costs (as summarised by the fetch tool)”
Contrasts with the organisation's own release which describes the ruling without mentioning the dissent.
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Corroborated by. src-jworg-2026-0508-news-norway-supreme-court
Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-nrk-2026-0430-hoyesterett-ruling