page_title: Judiciary of Sweden
section_title: Advocates
hierarchical_section_title: Judiciary of Sweden / Personnel / Advocates
caption_attribution_description: English: Kurt Haijby (left) and lawyer Henning Sjöström (right) on the way to trial on charges of extortion against the royal court. Svenska: Kurt Haijby (v) och advokat Henning Sjöström (h) på väg till rättegång anklagad för utpressning mot hovet.
context_page_description: The judicial system of Sweden consists of the law of Sweden and a number of government agencies tasked with upholding security and rule of law within the country. The activities of these agencies include police and law enforcement, prosecution, courts, and prisons and other correctional services.
context_section_description: Lawyer become an advokat or advocate when they are admitted to the Swedish Bar Association after they graduate from law school as a Candidate of Law and have practiced law  for at least 3 years.  A board of the Swedish Bar Association supervises members and may disqualify an advokat from practicing law. The Prosecutor General may request the board take action pursuant to the Code on Judicial Procedure.
  Compared with other countries, the number of attorneys (advokats) in private practice is small.
  In principle, only advokat are appointed as public defenders, though the advocate title is not a hardened requirement. The person assigned a "public defender" may however reject the defender and has a legal right to represent himself or herself, and may also choose their own defender, who may or may not be a member of the Swedish Bar Association. Advokats are considered state officials in their role as public defenders, when they are funded by the state, or when the state controls their economy to the degree that doubt may arise of their economic independence and impartiality.
caption: Henning Sjöström (right), regarded as Sweden's first celebrity lawyer due to his high-profile cases.
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