In British politics the Shadow Secretary of State for Justice is the member of the Shadow Cabinet who shadows the Secretary of State for Justice, an office which has existed since 2007. Prior to 2007, the office was known as Shadow Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs. The current Shadow Secretary of State for Justice is Sadiq Khan

Sadiq Khan

Sadiq Aman Khan is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Tooting since 2005, succeeding Tom Cox as the Labour MP for the seat...

 of the Labour Party

Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...

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Loyal Opposition Shadow Secretaries of State

Shadow Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs (2003–2007)

Name		Portrait	Entered office	Left office	Political party
	Alan Duncan Alan Duncan Alan James Carter Duncan is a British Conservative Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament for Rutland and Melton, and a Minister of State in the Department for International Development....		13 November 2003	14 June 2004	Conservative
	Oliver Heald Oliver Heald Oliver Heald is a British barrister and Conservative politician, and the Member of Parliament for North East Hertfordshire.-Background:...		14 June 2004	8 May 2007	Conservative

Shadow Secretary of State for Justice (2007–Present)

Name		Portrait	Entered office	Left office	Political party
	Oliver Heald Oliver Heald Oliver Heald is a British barrister and Conservative politician, and the Member of Parliament for North East Hertfordshire.-Background:...		9 May 2007	2 July 2007	Conservative
	Nick Herbert Nick Herbert Nicholas Le Quesne "Nick" Herbert is a British Conservative Party politician and the Member of Parliament for Arundel and South Downs...		2 July 2007	19 January 2009	Conservative
	Dominic Grieve Dominic Grieve Dominic Charles Roberts Grieve, QC MP is a British Conservative politician, barrister and Queen's Counsel.He is the Member of Parliament for Beaconsfield and the Attorney General for England and Wales and the Advocate General for Northern Ireland.-Early life:Grieve was born in Lambeth, the son of...		19 January 2009	11 May 2010	Conservative
	Jack Straw Jack Straw Jack Straw , British politician.Jack Straw may also refer to:* Jack Straw , English* "Jack Straw" , 1971 song by the Grateful Dead* Jack Straw by W...		11 May 2010	7 October 2010	Labour
	Sadiq Khan Sadiq Khan Sadiq Aman Khan is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Tooting since 2005, succeeding Tom Cox as the Labour MP for the seat...		8 October 2010	Incumbent	Labour

Liberal Democrat Shadow Secretaries

Name		Tenure		Title
	John Burnett John Burnett, Baron Burnett John Patrick Aubone Burnett, Baron Burnett is a Liberal Democrat politician in the United Kingdom, and was a Member of Parliament for Torridge and West Devon between 1997 and 2005 general elections...  MP & Bob Russell MP	May 1997	August 1999	Frontbench Spokespeople for Legal Affairs (Attorney General; Solicitor General; Lord Chancellor)
	The Rt Hon The Lord Goodhart	August 1999	March 2006	Shadow Lord Chancellor (Shadow Department for Constitutional Affairs)
	David Heath MP	March 2006	December 2007	Shadow Justice Secretary & Shadow Lord Chancellor
	Chris Huhne Chris Huhne Christopher Murray Paul-Huhne, generally known as Chris Huhne is a British politician and cabinet minister, who is the current Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for the Eastleigh constituency in Hampshire...  MP	December 2007	January 2009	Shadow Home Secretary, Shadow Justice Secretary & Shadow Lord Chancellor
	David Howarth David Howarth David Ross Howarth is a British Liberal Democrat politician who was Member of Parliament for Cambridge from 2005 to 2010.- Education and academic career :...  MP	January 2009	May 2010	Shadow Justice Secretary & Shadow Lord Chancellor
	Since May 2010, there has been no third party, the Liberal Democrats Liberal Democrats The Liberal Democrats are a social liberal political party in the United Kingdom which supports constitutional and electoral reform, progressive taxation, wealth taxation, human rights laws, cultural liberalism, banking reform and civil liberties .The party was formed in 1988 by a merger of the... being the junior party in a coalition government