Knut Blom (14 February 1916 – 6 February 1996) was a Norwegian judge. He served as a

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from 1968 to 1986. He was born in

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as a son of barrister Hans Jensen Blom (1875–1952) and Anna Martens Wingaard (1877–1947). He was a great-grandson of

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. He finished his secondary education in 1934, started law studies and graduated with the

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degree in 1939. He was hired as a junior solicitor under Carl Fridtjof Rode in

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in the same year, and took over the attorney's office when Rode was called to naval duty shortly thereafter. From 1940 to 1942 Blom was a deputy judge in

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, and from 1942 he was a junior solicitor under

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; from 1947 a partner. During the

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Blom had contacts in Hjemmefrontens Ledelse. Blom was a lawyer until 1968, and worked as a defender in

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from 1953 to 1956,

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from 1956 to 1965 and the

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from 1965 to 1968. From 1968 to his retirement in 1986 he was a

. Legal-academic books include ''Sakførerens rettslige ansvar'' (1947) and ''Prisloven med kommentarer'' (1954). He was decorated with the

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and in 1978 the

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. He died in February 1996 in Oslo.

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1916 births 1996 deaths Judges from Oslo Norwegian resistance members Supreme Court of Norway justices 20th-century Norwegian lawyers {{norway-law-bio-stub