Lúðvík Bergvinsson

This is an Icelandic name. The last name is patronymic, not a family name; this person is referred to by the given name Lúðvík.
Lúðvík Bergvinsson
(LB)
Member of the Althing
In office
10 May 2003 – 25 April 2009
ConstituencySouth
In office
8 April 1995 – 10 May 2003
ConstituencySouthern
Personal details
Born (1964-04-29) 29 April 1964 (age 60)
Kópavogur, Iceland
Political partySocial Democratic Alliance
Alma materUniversity of Iceland

Lúðvík Bergvinsson (born 29 April 1964) is an Icelandic lawyer, politician and former member of the Althing.[1] A member of the Social Democratic Alliance, he represented the Southern constituency from April 1995 to May 2003 and the South constituency from May 2003 to April 2009.[2]

Lúðvík was born on 29 April 1964 in Kópavogur.[1][3] He is the son of captain Bergvin Oddsson and María Friðriksdóttir.[1] He and his family moved to Vestmannaeyjar when he was a few months old.[3] Other than the a year he spent in Grindavík following the 1973 eruption of the Eldfell volcano, he spent most of his childhood in Vestmannaeyjar.[3] He received a master's license for operating a 30-tonne vessel in 1980.[1] He graduated from the Western Polytechnic in Akranes in 1985 and received a law degree from the University of Iceland (HÍ) in 1991.[1]

Lúðvík was a bailiff, later sheriff, in Vestmannaeyjar from 1991 to 1994.[1] He was a departmental head at the National Investigation Agency from 1993 to 1994 and chief legal officer at the Ministry of the Environment from 1994 to 1995.[1] He was elected to the Althing at the 1995 parliamentary election.[1] He was chairman of social democratic parliamentary group from June 2007 to April 2009.[2] He did not seek re-election at the 2009 parliamentary election.[4] He was a member of the municipal council in Vestmannaeyjar from 2002 to 2006.[1] In December 2009 Lúðvík, Sigurvin Ólafsson and Þóra Gunnarsdóttir started the Bonafide legal firm in Reykjavík.[5][6]

In April 2020 the Viðskiptablaðið newspaper published an anonymous opinion piece in the Óðinn column which claimed that Lúðvík had been paid ISK 33 million (US$230,000) by the Icelandic Competition Authority [is] (SE) for his role as an independent expert in the merger of Festi and N1.[7][8] The piece insinuated that the high figure had been as a result of the friendship between Lúðvík and Ásgeir Einarsson, the deputy director of the Competition Authority.[7][8] Lúðvík sued the paper's editor Trausta Hafliðason and its publisher Myllusetri ehf for defamation. The District Court in Reykjavík acquitted the defendants in February 2021, stating that the article was covered by the right to freedom of opinion enshrined in the Constitution of Iceland, and ordered Lúðvík to pay the defendants ISK 1.5m for legal costs.[9][10] In April 2022 the Court of Appeal upheld the district court's verdict and ordered Lúðvík to pay the defendants ISK 1.25m for legal costs.[8] In June 2022 the Supreme Court of Iceland rejected Lúðvík's application for leave to appeal against the Court of Appeal's decision.[11]

Lúðvík and his spouse Þóra Gunnarsdóttir have a daughter and a son.[1] He played football for Íþróttabandalag Vestmannaeyja (ÍBV), Íþróttabandalag Akraness (ÍA), Leiftur and Íþróttafélag Kópavogs (ÍK) between 1983 and 1991.[1]

Electoral history of Lúðvík Bergvinsson
Election Constituency Party Votes Result
1995 parliamentary[12] Southern Social Democratic Party 874 Elected
1999 parliamentary[13] Southern Social Democratic Alliance 3,605 Elected
2003 parliamentary[14] South Social Democratic Alliance 6,433.0 Elected
2007 parliamentary[15] South Social Democratic Alliance 4,958.0 Elected

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Þingmenn: Alþingismannatal - Æviágrip þingmanna frá 1845 - Lúðvík Bergvinsson" (in Icelandic). Reykjavík, Iceland: Althing. Archived from the original on 14 October 2023. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Þingmenn: Alþingismannatal - Æviágrip þingmanna frá 1845 - Þingseta - Lúðvík Bergvinsson - þingsetutímabil og embætti" (in Icelandic). Reykjavík, Iceland: Althing. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
  3. ^ a b c "Minnihlutastjórn er málið". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). Reykjavík, Iceland. 29 April 2024. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
  4. ^ "Lúðvík sækist ekki eftir endurkjöri". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Reykjavík, Iceland. 19 February 2009. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
  5. ^ "Fjórtán ár á þingi hafa skilað mér góðri reynslu og þekkingu á samfélaginu". Fréttir (in Icelandic). Vol. 36, no. 50. Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland. 17 December 2009. p. 41. ISSN 1670-4061. Retrieved 7 November 2024 – via Timarit.is.
  6. ^ "Opnar lögmannsstofu í Kringlunni". Fréttablaðið (in Icelandic). Vol. 9, no. 296. Reykjavík, Iceland. 15 December 2009. p. 20. ISSN 1670-3871. Retrieved 7 November 2024 – via Timarit.is.
  7. ^ a b Óðinn (13 April 2020). "Hjörtun í Namibíu og Borgartúni". Viðskiptablaðið (in Icelandic). Reykjavík, Iceland. Archived from the original on 28 September 2023. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
  8. ^ a b c "Viðskiptablaðið hafði aftur betur gegn Lúðvík". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). Reykjavík, Iceland. 8 April 2022. Archived from the original on 13 June 2022. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
  9. ^ Freyr Gígja Gunnarsson (5 February 2021). "Viðskiptablaðið sýknað í meiðyrðamáli Lúðvíks". RÚV (in Icelandic). Reykjavík, Iceland. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
  10. ^ "Viðskiptablaðið hafði betur í meiðyrðamáli Lúðvíks". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). Reykjavík, Iceland. 5 February 2021. Archived from the original on 30 June 2022. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
  11. ^ "Hæstiréttur hafnar Lúðvík". Viðskiptablaðið (in Icelandic). Reykjavík, Iceland. 14 June 2022. Archived from the original on 28 June 2022. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
  12. ^ Alþingiskosningar 1995 (in Icelandic). Reykjavík, Iceland: Statistics Iceland. 1995. p. 76. ISBN 9979-817-31-3. Retrieved 12 September 2022 – via Timarit.is.
  13. ^ Alþingiskosningar 1999 (in Icelandic). Reykjavík, Iceland: Statistics Iceland. 2002. p. 72. ISBN 9979-770-04-X. Retrieved 12 September 2022 – via Timarit.is.
  14. ^ "Alþingiskosningar 10. maí 2003" (PDF). Hagtíðindi (in Icelandic). Vol. 89, no. 62. Reykjavík, Iceland: Statistics Iceland. 27 December 2004. p. 25. ISSN 0019-1078. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
  15. ^ "Alþingiskosningar 12. maí 2007" (PDF). Hagtíðindi (in Icelandic). Vol. 93, no. 3. Reykjavík, Iceland: Statistics Iceland. 15 January 2008. p. 30. ISSN 0019-1078. Retrieved 16 March 2021.