Fraud offences, taxation offences and company law offences.

These offences, which are often referred to as 'White Collar Crime', are serious and carry high maximum sentences but they can often be successfully defended.

Fraud matters include offences under the NSW Crimes Act 1900 such as use and make false instrument and obtain financial benefit by deception.

Defending fraud and other White Collar Crime charges usually requires very close analysis of the prosecution brief of evidence. Sometimes there are technical defences which can provide a complete defence to all the criminal charges. But even if it is not possible to defend all the criminal charges it is almost always possible to defend some of the criminal charges or persuade the prosecution to withdraw these criminal charges. Either way, obtaining the right legal advice and legal representation at an early stage can make a very big difference to the outcome.

We sometimes engage forensic accountants and other experts to review accounting and taxation evidence however we usually do most of this work in-house.

If your case proceeds to a sentencing hearing we can assess all mitigating circumstances that may be available to you, such as gambling problems and debt problems, alcohol and depression and we can obtain reports from psychologists, and other experts for use in Court so you get the most lenient sentence possible.

At all times we will vigorously pursue your interests whether that involves appearing for you in Court to defend the charges or on a Sentence Hearing, or negotiating with the Police the DPP, the Australian Taxation Office, Australian Customs or ASIC.