About Tor Erling Staff
Lived 1933 – 2018 (aged 85). Tor Erling Staff was a Norwegian criminal defense lawyer, television presenter and lawyer.
Tor Erling Staff (22 February 1933 – 22 July 2018) was a Norwegian criminal defense lawyer. He was particularly known for taking controversial cases.
Staff was born in Oslo. As a student he chaired the Norwegian Students' Society in Oslo in the spring of 1956, graduating with the cand.jur. degree in 1958. He started working for barrister Olaf Trampe Kindt and for stipendiary magistrate Christian Bernt Apenes. He continued his studies in the United States. From 1967 he worked as a lawyer in Oslo and at the Supreme Court.
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Who was Tor Erling Staff?
Norwegian lawyer (1933-2018)
When was Tor Erling Staff born?
Tor Erling Staff was born on 22 February 1933 in Oslo.
When did Tor Erling Staff die?
Tor Erling Staff died on 22 July 2018 in Smestad.
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Tor Erling Staff was a criminal defense lawyer, television presenter and lawyer.
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Tor Erling Staff was Norwegian.
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