Australian Criminal Defence

Australian Criminal Defence is a team of dedicated criminal defence lawyers based in Sydney. The firm handles all types of criminal matters and appears before all courts in Sydney and throughout Australia. Its lawyers have appeared in serious criminal matters in Canberra, Victoria and Queensland. The firm appears before the Local, District and Supreme Court in matters including defended hearings, appeals, trials and sentence proceedings. It has 35 years of combined experience and has helped 4,000 clients across Australia. The firm has 4 locations and offers fixed fees and a free consultation. The Principal is Joseph Harb, one of the most respected and well renowned drug defence lawyers.

The team includes specialist drug defence lawyers and works with a select team of leading barristers and forensic experts. Its lawyers have secured unlikely acquittals in drug supply and importation cases and have a reputation of having serious cases dropped prior to the matter reaching a jury trial. They have appeared in many high-profile cases. The firm handles criminal offences Australia-wide, appearing before the Children, Local, District and Supreme Court, and specialises in criminal and traffic law. Services include drug offences, traffic offences, domestic violence and AVO's, and sexual assault charges.

Defence against criminal charges, District Court appeals and related court matters are the situations that bring clients to Australian Criminal Defence, and the accounts they give focus on how those matters were handled. Joseph Harb is named repeatedly, with reviewers describing his professionalism, honesty and careful preparation of each case, and the outcomes he secured are cited as charges resolved without conviction, appeals decided successfully and reduced charges obtained. Clients frequently refer to the way their options were explained and how they were kept informed as proceedings progressed, which they say made an otherwise difficult process easier to manage.

The representation is described as respectful and free of judgement, with individuals feeling heard rather than processed, and the fees are characterised as fair and reasonable for the standard of work delivered. Urgency features in several accounts, including one matter taken on and resolved quickly. Empathy and steady guidance come through as strongly as the legal expertise, and gratitude for both the results and the personal support is a theme running across the feedback about Harb and the wider practice.