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Modest increase of civil disputes
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Disputes dealt with by the conciliation boards (discontinued), 2002

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Modest increase of civil disputes

A total of 226 575 cases of civil disputes were dealt with by the Conciliation boards in Norway in 2002. In the country as a total, the amount of cases dealt with increased by 6 per cent in 2002, compared with 29 per cent the previous years.

Disputes dealt with by the Conciliation boards. 1980-2002

Slight increases and decreases

The conciliation boards in Hordaland County had the largest increase in the number of civil disputes dealt with in 2002 by 39 per cent. This is related to Bergen Conciliation board dealing with and closing old cases. Second and third came Telemark and Rogaland with an 8 and 7 per cent increase respectively. Aust-Agder, Møre og Romsdal, Troms and Finnmark recorded a slight decrease in the number of civil disputes compared with 2001. In the country as a total, the number of civil disputes dealt with increased by almost 6 per cent.

Finnmark had most disputes with 66 per 1 000 inhabitants, followed by Nordland and Oslo with 61 and 56 respectively. Sogn and Fjordane had the lowest number of cases per 1 000 inhabitants with 35. Nation-wide, the average was 50 disputes per 1 000 inhabitants.

Nearly 1 out of 8 disputes were dealt with in Oslo, or almost 13 per cent of the country's total number of cases.

Disputes dealt with by the Conciliation boards per 1 000 inhabitants. County. 2002

A slight increase of number of reconciles

The number of disputes where the parts were reconciled increased by nearly 8 per cent from 2001. These cases make more than 3 per cent of the total, or almost 7 300 cases

The number of cases dismissed decreased in 2002, and these cases make slightly more than 14 per cent of the total amount of cases.

Almost 4 000 disputes were referred to the court, about as many as the previous year.

The proportion of cases ending with judgment remained stable. As in previous years, a large proportion of disputes ended with judgment by default because the defendant did not reply, -96 per cent or almost 155 000 cases.

Previous year's information on civil disputes in the Conciliation boards has been collected on paper forms from each separate board. From 2002 included, the paper forms were replaced with electronic forms in KOSTRA (Municipality-State-Reporting).

On Svalbard a conciliation board was established in 2002, with their first meeting in May. Svalbard is included in the statistics for 2002.

Disputes dealt with by the conciliation boards, by decision and county. 20021
  Total Dismissed Reconciled Referred to
the court 		Judgment by default Other judgment
  Not replied Not appeared Statement
accepted 		Mediation
in vain
1997  118 208 20 149 4 246 4 165 73 550 4 008 8 288 3 802
1998  132 052 21 329 4 613 3 956 83 990 4 354 9 694 4 116
1999  142 367 20 969 4 991 4 487 92 391 4 522 10 977 4 030
2000  166 379 25 349 5 656 3 803  110 279 4 902 12 022 4 368
2001 2 214 014 33 056 6 762 3 997  143 705 5 934 16 079 4 381
                 
Total  226 575 32 442 7 290 3 988  154 744 6 623 16 936 4 552
østfold 13 871 1 862  342  155 9 658  421 1 102  331
Akershus 22 807 3 978  798  542 14 633  646 1 732  478
Oslo 29 107 3 458 1 145  959 19 596 1 408 1 778  763
Hedmark 10 287 1 382  205  111 7 425  196  789  179
Oppland 9 086 1 075  135 81 6 599  149  853  194
Buskerud 12 449 1 901  460  230 8 240  295 1 132  191
Vestfold 11 777 1 587  351  169 8 248  364  853  205
Telemark 8 314 1 034  272  158 5 617  292  726  215
Aust-Agder 4 584  590  134 26 3 280  146  294  114
Vest-Agder 6 773  779  210 81 4 973  147  427  156
Rogaland 14 894 2 314  709  172 9 876  387 1 075  361
Hordaland 21 353 4 056  904  318 13 879  666 1 296  234
Sogn og Fjordane 3 767  535 83 56 2 754 73  208 58
Møre og Romsdal 10 357 1 299  274  190 7 162  286  921  225
Sør-Trøndelag 13 109 1 948  431  195 8 955  395  986  199
Nord-Trøndelag 6 465  765  128 50 4 758 85  569  110
Nordland 14 396 1 936  343  258 9 983  357 1 218  301
Troms 8 267 1 288  270  183 5 583  202  600  141
Finnmark Finnmárku 4 855  641 96 53 3 488  108  375 94
Svalbard 57 14 0 1 37 0 2 3
1  Data not available from the conciliation boards in Rødøy and Kviteseid; data from 2001 is used.
2  Including 100 cases without certain decision.