Charged with a criminal or traffic offence? Opal Legal’s criminal defence lawyers understand how traumatic this can be.
Why Opal Legal?
Our criminal lawyers at Liverpool will ensure that you receive the best possible outcome. This could be:
- Having the charges withdrawn altogether after making representations to police.
- Our criminal defence barrister defending the charges against you.
- Negotiating with the prosecution to minimise the charges against you.
- Our criminal lawyers convincing the court not to record a conviction against you pursuant to section 10 of the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act.
- You avoiding a prison sentence for a serious offence.
We always strive to provide the best representation at an affordable price.
What criminal cases do we appear in?
Opal Legal’s expert criminal defence solicitors in Liverpool appear in all types criminal matters, including:
- Common assault; Assault occasioning actual bodily harm
- Recklessly causing grievous bodily harm; Reckless wounding;
- Contravene AVO
- Possess prohibited drugs
- Sexual intercourse without consent; Sexual touching
- Possess prohibited weapon; possess firearm
- Fraud
- Malicious damage
Traffic Lawyers Liverpool
If you are charged with a traffic offence, then our traffic lawyers in Liverpool will formulate the best possible strategies to ensure that you do not lose your licence.
We will provide the best representation for you in matters such as:
- Drink driving
- Drug driving
- Negligent driving
- Dangerous driving
- Drive whilst suspended
- Drive whilst disqualified
- Licence appeals
Where are we located?
The offices of Opal Legal are conveniently located Suite 8, Level 1, 131-135 George Street, Sydney.
We are a stone’s throw away from Liverpool Local Court, Liverpool Police Station, Westfields Liverpool and Liverpool Council’s Warren Serviceway Parking Station.
About Liverpool Local Court
Liverpool Local Court is one of the largest courts in New South Wales.
It has five court rooms. Magistrates usually sit in four courts and a Registrar in court 5.
Liverpool Local Court has power to hear all criminal law cases that are not strictly indictable.
Staff from Community Corrections, MERIT, Legal Aid and Justice Health also operate from the courthouse.
Our Liverpool criminal attorneys attend Liverpool Local Court several times each week to represent clients facing criminal charges.
What types of criminal hearings do we appear in at Liverpool Local Court?
Our criminal defence team regularly appears in:
- Defended criminal law hearings where an accused has pleaded “not guilty.”
- Sentences
- Bail Applications
- Applications under Mental Health legislation
- Annulment applications under section 4 of the Crimes (Appeal and Review) Act
- Criminal law committal hearings
When should you contact our criminal lawyers
You should immediately contact one of our senior criminal lawyers at Liverpool if:
- Police attend your home and start asking you questions.
- Police start recording what you say in a body worn camera.
- Police try to search your home or car.
- You are arrested or detained by police.
- Police contact you and advise you that you are a person of interest in a criminal investigation.
- Police ask you to attend a police station.
- Police request you to participate in an interview.
- Police issue you with a court attendance notice.
- Police charge you with a matter that is a serious indictable offence in criminal law.
- Police serve you with an Apprehended Violence Order
- Police refuse you bail.
- You are asked by police to participate in a forensic procedure.
Rule 1: Do not speak to police
Consult our Liverpool criminal lawyers before you decide whether to speak to police or give a police interview.
This is because, in our experience, a police interview is unlikely to make the criminal charges go away.
In the vast majority of matters in which defendants participate in police interviews, the prosecution case becomes stronger. This is because a police officer is always in a stronger position than an accused during the course of a police interview.
Commonly, interviewees make “admissions” to technically committing a criminal offence or give inconsistent versions in the unnatural and intimidating environment of a police station.
You can contact our expert criminal lawyers for a FREE CASE EVALUATION or REQUEST A QUOTE now.