Healthcare & Life Sciences, Norway updates
Supreme Court opines on limitations of GPs' freedom of conscience
Homble Olsby | Littler- Norway
- 19 December 2018
The Supreme Court recently deemed that a municipality's termination of its agreement with a general practitioner (GP) after she refused to insert an intrauterine device for a patient for reasons of conscience relating to her religion was invalid. The GP claimed that her termination was invalid because, among other things, it contravened Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights (freedom of thought, conscience and religion).
