Committee on Civil Law ( sv, Lagutskottet) was a
parliamentary committee
A committee or commission is a body of one or more persons subordinate to a deliberative assembly. A committee is not itself considered to be a form of assembly. Usually, the assembly sends matters into a committee as a way to explore them more ...
in the Swedish
Riksdag
The Riksdag (, ; also sv, riksdagen or ''Sveriges riksdag'' ) is the legislature and the supreme decision-making body of Sweden. Since 1971, the Riksdag has been a unicameral legislature with 349 members (), elected proportionally and se ...
. Its area of responsibility was to bring up questions and policies on the
law in Sweden under the period of 1971-2006. Even during the
bicameral
Bicameralism is a type of legislature, one divided into two separate assemblies, chambers, or houses, known as a bicameral legislature. Bicameralism is distinguished from unicameralism, in which all members deliberate and vote as a single grou ...
period, there was a Law Committee (since 1918 there were divided Law Committees for the
First Chamber and the
Second Chamber, they were called the
First Law Committee and the
Second Law Committee,
in 1949 the Riksdag introduced the
Third Law Committee).
During the
unicameral Riksdag (the modern Riksdag), the committee was mostly changed in handling civil law issues such as family law, commercial and insurance contract law, company and association law, tort law, intellectual property law (including copyright and patents), bankruptcy law and consumer law. The Law Committee was the only parliamentary committee that did not prepare any budget issues. The last chairman of the committee was 2002-2006 Inger René of the
Moderate Party.
On 1 October 2006, the committee was assimilated, along with the
Housing Committee, into the
Civil Affairs Committee.
Pressmeddelande
''riksdagen.se''
List of speakers for the committee
Erik Sparre 1850 / 1851 - 1865/ 1866
References
{{Committees of the Parliament of Sweden
Defunct standing committees of the Riksdag