Torkel Gregow

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| name = Torkel Gregow

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| office1 = President of the Supreme Court of Sweden

| term_start1 = 1998

| term_end1 = 2002

| monarch1 = Carl XVI Gustaf

| primeminister1 = Göran Persson

| predecessor1 = Anders Knutson

| successor1 = Bo Svensson

| office2 = Justice of the Supreme Court of Sweden

| term_start2 = 1981

| term_end2 = 1998

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1935|11|15|df=y}}

| birth_place = Trelleborg, Sweden

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| education = Lund University

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Per Johan Torkel Gregow (born 15 November 1935) is a retired Swedish lawyer. Between 1981 and 1998 he served as a Justice of the Supreme Court. In 1998, he was appointed President of the Supreme Court, a role he kept until 2002.

Torkel graduated in law at Uppsala University in 1958 and did service as a law clerk at District Court between 1959 and 1962. He then served as a public prosecutor from 1963 to 1968 when he became a deputy judge. In 1975 he became a judge in a court of appeal. Torkel was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court in 1981 and later made its president in 1998, a post he kept until 2002.

After retirements from active legal practice he became editor of the Swedish code of laws in 2003 until he retired in 2010.{{cite web |title=392 (Vem är det : Svensk biografisk handbok / 1997) |url=https://runeberg.org/vemardet/1997/0392.html |website=runeberg.org |access-date=2 August 2024 |language=sv}}url= https://www.nj.se/experter/torkel-gregow-0285

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