Areas of Practice

If you have searched for a ‘Brisbane criminal lawyer’ or ‘criminal lawyer Brisbane’, you will see there are lawyers locally based and others who provide services in Brisbane.

Why choose Anderson Legal?

The areas this firm handles are deliberately narrow and deep, ensuring it can handle all cases to the highest standards. Anderson Legal is transparent about costs and maintains the highest standards of ethical conduct.

Andrew Anderson has a proven track record of successfully defending complex criminal cases and overturning miscarriages of justice on appeal. This firm has a focus on assisting clients with complex criminal cases.

What is your aim today?

Obtain help with ‘white-collar’ offences:

• Corporations Act Offences
• Corruption & Misconduct
• Fraud Offences
• Privacy Offences
• WHS Offences
• Workplace Offences

Get advice about a criminal case:

• Criminal Appeals
• Cybercrime & AI
• Drug Offences
• Property Offences
• Violent Offences

Facing Prosectuion

If you are facing a criminal charge in Brisbane, properly understanding court processes is important to making decisions about your case. For any criminal lawyer, ensuring their client understands their legal options is crucial. This includes understanding how court processes may impact those options.

Anderson Legal ensures its clients understand the relevant court processes from beginning to end, enabling confident decisions about the way forward.

A person facing a criminal charge in Brisbane may encounter any of the following stages:

• Facing Police Investigation
• Coercive Investigative Hearings
• Arrest & Notices to Appear
• Bail Applications
• Evidence Disclosure Obligations
• Committal Proceedings
• Pre-Trial Hearings
• Trials & Final Hearings
• Criminal Appeals

When facing a criminal charge, at each stage decisions about how to respond can have significant consequences at each stage. This highlights the need to obtain expert advice and assistance as early as possible.

Criminal Defence Work

Criminal defence work requires more than just an understanding of criminal law. It requires the insight to know that without the ability to properly contest allegations, innocent people are condemned to unjust convictions and punishments.

History provides countless examples of innocent people wrongly accused of committing offences and prisoners condemned to punishments that do not fit the crime.

People searching terms like ‘Brisbane criminal lawyer’ or ‘criminal lawyer Brisbane’ are often trying to identify which law firm or lawyer would be right for them. Sometimes, they have become uneasy with the lawyer representing them and are looking for a second opinion or alternative representation.

One of the most crucial roles of a criminal defence lawyer is to properly understand both the prosecution and defence cases, preferably as early as possible. This takes time and, of course, effort.

Anderson Legal operates with the understanding that skilled, passionate and thorough lawyers can make a difference and avert miscarriages of justice.

From the High Court of Australia down, Andrew Anderson has the proven results and experience that explains why he has a history of representing clients in high-profile and complex criminal cases.

Read about Andrew Anderson and why he should be your first choice.

Expertise & Experience

Expertise

Having successfully represented litigants in the High Court of Australia, Queensland Court of Appeal, Royal Commissions and multiple other courts dealing with trials and other hearings, Andrew Anderson understands how to succeed in complex and difficult cases.

There is a reason why Andrew Anderson, throughout his career, has been selected for complex and difficult cases. The delivery of outcomes, against the odds, again and again, ultimately sees the most complex and difficult cases land on your desk.

Experience

Prior to operating a law firm, Andrew Anderson worked as a Principal Crown Prosecutor in Queensland and barrister in private practice at 8 Petrie Terrace Chambers in Brisbane. His depth of courtroom advocacy experience ranges from simple cases right through to complex homicide trials and appeals.

If you need a criminal lawyer for a case in Brisbane, Andrew Anderson should be your preferred choice for advice and representation. Having worked as both a barrister and solicitor, he has a breadth of experience that means he has been trusted with some of the most high-profile and complex criminal cases before the courts.

Trust

There are numerous high-profile cases where injustices against innocent people have been overturned, often only because of the critical work of independent lawyers and courts. A belief that independence within the legal profession is the best protection for people wrongly accused of a crime is the reason that Andrew Anderson takes on cases and clients that the public may abhor.

In successfully showing people to have been wrongly charged or convicted, including for charges as serious as murder, Andrew Anderson understands the difference the application of independent legal thought can make to the outcome of a criminal case. If you need a criminal lawyer for a case in Queensland, you can trust the expertise and experience available to you in this firm.

Read about Andrew Anderson and why he should be your first choice.