Minister for Justice (Greece)

The Minister for Justice of Greece is the government minister responsible for the running of the Ministry of Justice.

The Ministry of Justice was initially established as the State Justice Secretariat in April 1833. It is responsible for the Judicial Branch of the government of Greece and supervises the organisational structure of the courts as well as their financing. Another important function of the ministry is the maintenance of the independence of the Judicial Branch from the other two branches of government: Executive and Legislative. Land registries and the maintenance of prisons also falls within its jurisdiction.

In October 2009, the Ministry's titled was expanded to Justice, Transparency and Human Rights.

The current minister is Haris Kastanidis.

See also

• Cabinet of Greece

External links

• Webpage of the Ministry

List of Ministers for Justice

		Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party
		Michalis Stathopoulos			Panhellenic Socialist Movement
		Evangelos Giannopoulos			Panhellenic Socialist Movement
		Philippos Petsalnikos	October 24, 2001	March 10, 2004	Panhellenic Socialist Movement
		Anastasios Papaligouras	March 10, 2004	September 18 2007	New Democracy
		Sotiris Hadjigakis	September 19 2007	January 8, 2009	New Democracy
		Nikolaos Dendias	January 8, 2009	October 7, 2009	New Democracy
		Haris Kastanidis	October 7, 2009	Incumbent	Panhellenic Socialist Movement

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