
Criminal law
The team of lawyers around partners Walter Van Steenbrugge and Christine Mussche defends perpetrators and victims and/or their relatives with an open mind. To their legal knowledge they add the benefit of other areas of expertise, including neurology, psychiatry, psychology and sociology, and they work together with traffic experts, toxicologists, medical specialists and accountants.
To clear away one preconception right at the start, this unit does not only deal with murder cases before the criminal court in which life imprisonment is at stake: our firm is just as passionate about defending those accused of traffic offences before the police court. Because even in those circumstances, the impact on your personal, professional or financial life can be huge. Don’t forget that you may be entitled to a free lawyer of your choice.
Contact us if you have been charged with or are the victim of, among other things:
- Indecent assault
- Extortion
- harassment
- Arson
- Theft and Healing
- drug facts
- Organized Crime
- Human trafficking
- Misuse of corporate assets
- Murder and manslaughter
- Fornication and prostitution
- Scams and Abuse of Trust
- Intentional and unintentional blows or injuries
- Private and public bribery
- Breach of professional secrecy
- Traffic violations
- Rape
- Forgery and use of false documents
- money laundering
What’s more, cases don’t always relate to offences in the conventional categories; anyone can come up against areas of specialised criminal law such as:
- Criminal social law
- Criminal TAX law
- Criminal environmental law
- Urban planning violations
- Bankruptcy Crimes
- Criminal business law
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The emphasis is always on respect for fundamental human rights. It is fought with style, but hard. Criminal law revolves around people and their lives, from the smallest traffic offense to the most serious assize case. Whether you are an individual or an entrepreneur.
Our fight to uphold human rights can take various different forms.
Read more about the “Human Right Unltd: the Fried van Hoof aWard”.
Read more about the convictions of the Belgian state for the treatment of internees.
Read more about it file Chalice and the efforts for victims of clergy child abuse.
No one is completely
good, nobody is
completely bad.

Our special expertise:
– Cassation in criminal cases: a number of lawyers with the required licence, extremely thorough analysis... and results that speak for themselves.
– Advice to lawyers: our specialists regularly assist colleagues.
– Investigations and procedures.