The Supreme Court of Iceland yesterday ruled that the emergency law on prioritisation of bankruptcy claims will remain in force. In the specific case of Landsbanki, this means that British and Dutch claims to cover the Icesave debt can now be paid out. Read the full story

A Danish pop star has taken her quest to get a full tax deduction for clothes and make-up purchased for on-stage performances to the Supreme Court. Lina Rafn, who sings with the band Infernal and won international notoriety for her vocals on Paw’s Paris to Berlin song, is this week at the country’s highest court to contest a previous ruling. Read the full story

The Icelandic government met yesterday about a Supreme Court decision that foreign currency car loans are illegal. Read the full story

The Norwegian Supreme Court has decided in favour of shipping companies in the raging taxation dispute, after ruling that retroactive tax payments imposed over a decade were in breach of the country’s constitution. Read the full story

An Icelandic woman received a court order to return to the United States with her two children before the next coming Sunday. Borghildur Gudmundsdottir had the two children with an American soldier who wants to have custody over the children in the United States. Gudmundsdottir told Morgunbladid she wonders if it is considered alright to throw Icelanders out from their own country “like throwing out old rags”. She continued, asking who has the right to kick two children out of a country and strip all security and safety from their mother. Her children are aged 10 and five and are said to be doing well in school and life in Iceland. Read the full story

The Supreme Court of Iceland yesterday sentenced a farmer to pay ISK 2 million plus interest to a young woman hurt by a cow with a newborn calf in 2002.

The girl, who was 14 at the time, was injured when the cow gored and trampled her shortly after giving birth to a calf. The girl has suffered back complaints ever since and is considered 5 percent physically disabled. Read the full story