title: Committee on Justice
text: # Committee on Justice
  
  (Parliamentary) Committee on Justice (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.
  
  Since 2022, the chairman of the committee is Richard Jomshof of the Sweden Democrats and the deputy chairman of the committee is Ardalan Shekarabi 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 | 2018–2022 | Social Democratic Party |
  | Richard Jomshof | 2022– | 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 | 2018–2022 | Christian Democrats |
  | Petter Löberg | 2022 | Social Democratic Party |
  | Ardalan Shekarabi | 2022– | Social Democratic Party |
  