(Parliamentary) Committee on Justice () (JuU) is a

parliamentary committee A committee or commission is a body of one or more persons subordinate to a deliberative assembly or other form of organization. A committee may not itself be considered to be a form of assembly or a decision-making body. Usually, an assembly o ...

in the Swedish

Riksdag The Riksdag ( , ; also or , ) is the parliament and the parliamentary sovereignty, supreme decision-making body of the Kingdom of Sweden. Since 1971, the Riksdag has been a unicameral parliament with 349 members (), elected proportional rep ...

. The committee's main areas of responsibility concern

Judiciary The judiciary (also known as the judicial system, judicature, judicial branch, judiciative branch, and court or judiciary system) is the system of courts that adjudicates legal disputes/disagreements and interprets, defends, and applies the law ...

policies on various different authorities, among other things, the

courts A court is an institution, often a government entity, with the authority to adjudicate legal disputes between parties and administer justice in civil, criminal, and administrative matters in accordance with the rule of law. Courts gene ...

, Prosecution Authority, the Police Authorities, the Prison and Probation Service, along with matters that concern the criminal code, the Code of Judicial Procedure, and laws that replace or are closely related to regulations that concern these areas. The chairman of the committee is, since 2025,

Henrik Vinge Henrik Olof Vinge (born 10 August 1988) is a Swedish lawyer and politician and of the Sweden Democrats. He served as Leader of the Sweden Democrats in the Riksdag from 2019 to 2023 and has served as first deputy leader of his party since November ...

of the

Sweden Democrats The Sweden Democrats ( , SD ) is a Nationalism, nationalist and Right-wing populism, right-wing populist political party in Sweden founded in 1988. As of 2024, it is the largest member of Sweden's Right-wing politics, right-wing bloc and the sec ...

and the deputy chairman of the committee is, since 2024, Teresa Carvalho of the

Social Democrats Social democracy is a social, economic, and political philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy and a gradualist, reformist, and democratic approach toward achieving social equality. In modern practice, s ...

List of speakers for the committee

List of vice-speakers for the committee

References

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External links

Riksdag - Justitieutskottet
Riksdag - Justice Committee Committees of the Riksdag Parliamentary committees on Justice