Committee on Justice

(Parliamentary) Committee on Justice^[1] (Swedish: justitieutskottet) (JuU) is a parliamentary committee in the Swedish Riksdag. The committee's main areas of responsibility concern Judiciary policies on various different authorities, among other things, the courts, 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^[2] of the Sweden Democrats and the deputy chairman of the committee is, since 2024, Teresa Carvalho of the Social Democrats.

List of speakers for the committee

Name		Period	Political party
	Bertil Lidgard	1977-1984	Moderate Party
	Karin Ahrland	1985–1989	People's Party
	Britta Bjelle	1989–1994	People's Party
	Gun Hellsvik	1994–2001	Moderate Party
	Fredrik Reinfeldt	2001–2002	Moderate Party
	Johan Pehrson	2002–2006	Liberal People's Party
	Thomas Bodström	2006–2010	Social Democratic Party
	Morgan Johansson	2010–2014	Social Democratic Party
	Beatrice Ask	2014–2017	Moderate Party
	Tomas Tobé	2017–2018	Moderate Party
	Fredrik Lundh Sammeli[3][4]	2018–2022	Social Democratic Party
	Richard Jomshof	2022–2025	Sweden Democrats
	Henrik Vinge[5]	2025–	Sweden Democrats

List of vice-speakers for the committee

Name		Period	Political party
	Morgan Johansson	2002	Social Democratic Party
	Susanne Eberstein	2002–2004	Social Democratic Party
	Britta Lejon	2004–2006	Social Democratic Party
	Inger Davidsson	2006–2010	Christian Democrats
	Johan Linander	2010–2014	Centre Party
	Annika Hirvonen Falk	2014–2015	Green Party
	Mats Pertoft	2015–2016	Green Party
	Annika Hirvonen Falk	2016–2018	Green Party
	Andreas Carlson[6][7]	2018–2022	Christian Democrats
	Petter Löberg	2022	Social Democratic Party
	Ardalan Shekarabi	2022–2024	Social Democratic Party
	Teresa Carvalho	2024–	Social Democratic Party