Our law office also provides legal services in the field of criminal law. To ensure high expertise, the office co-operates with experts in related fields, such as forensics. The firm has a high success rate in defending remand cases and in reaching alternative means to end criminal proceedings. It has been repeatedly awarded in the Law Firm of the Year competition as a recommended or highly recommended law office in the field of criminal law.

We have a dedicated criminal-law team that provides comprehensive services in this area. The team is led by Mgr. Lukáš Smutný, a senior attorney specialising in criminal law. The team brings together attorneys-at-law and trainees across the law office who work on individual criminal cases. The law office represents victims and survivors of all types of crimes. It specialises in helping victims of domestic violence, sexual offences and victims of road accidents, including the relatives of the deceased.

Victims of domestic violence and sexual offences

A specialised criminal-law team helps to manage criminal proceedings in a way that prevents unnecessary burdens (helping to assert and protect rights, representing clients in communication with public authorities, accompanying them through the individual steps of criminal proceedings, etc.). Further assistance:

• Ensuring the safety of the victim through selected criminal and civil law instruments;
• Assistance in applying for free legal aid paid for by the state;
• Recovering damages from perpetrators;
• Drawing up applications to the Ministry of Justice for financial assistance to victims of crime;
• Providing related legal assistance in other areas (divorce, child custody, property settlement, etc.).

Traffic accidents:

The specialist team also provides legal assistance to victims of road accidents and the relatives of the deceased. We provide the following services:

• Recovery of damages in criminal and civil proceedings;
• Asserting and protecting the rights of clients;
• Representing clients in a number of procedural steps before public authorities;
• Representing clients in communication with public authorities;
• Exercising claims against insurance companies.