Criminal Lawyers Perth

About US

SAHARAN FAMILY &CRIMINAL LAWYERS is managed by our Principal, Rajesh Saharan. He was admitted in NSW in 1999 and he commenced practising in Australia in 2000.  He has practised in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, and Western Australia. When he was working with Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Legal Service (Qld South) LTD, they were so impressed with his quality of work that he was awarded –“Lawyer of the Year 2007”.  He has been involved in several trials and appeals over the years. He has been practising in Criminal Law for over 24 years.  

We are affordable Criminal Lawyers in Perth and are happy to negotiate reasonable fixed fees for assisting you with your criminal matter.  Our criminal lawyers can appear for you in Perth, Midland, Fremantle, Armadale, Rockingham, Mandurah, Joondalup, Bunbury and other regional areas of Western Australia.

If you’ve been charged with a criminal or traffic offence you don’t have to face it alone. The outcome of your Court case might be life-changing, so give yourself the best possible chance with one of our traffic lawyers or criminal defence lawyers.

We will advise you of your rights, get you ready for your Court appearance and explain the Court procedures so you understand what’s happening. In Court, we’ll defend your case clearly and strongly to give you the best possible outcome. We represent clients regularly in Perth metropolitan and regional areas of Western Australia.

Please contact us if you need a Criminal Lawyer in Perth, Traffic Lawyer in Perth, or Trial Lawyer in Perth.  We can handle all areas of criminal law, including:

  • Traffic and vehicle offences – exceeding the prescribed content of alcohol (drink driving), drive while disqualified or suspended, drive without a licence, other driving offences
  • Acts intended to cause injury – including common assault, serious assault resulting in injury, stalking, serious assault not resulting in injury
  • Justice procedure offences – breach of violence order, resist or hinder police, breach of bond, suspended sentence, or community service order
  • Theft – including theft from retail premises, receiving or handling the proceeds of crime, theft of intellectual property
  • Illicit drug offences – possession, cultivation or dealing in illicit drugs
  • Public Order offences – disorderly conduct, criminal intent, riot and affray, liquor and tobacco offences, offensive language or behaviour, cruelty to animals
  • Fraud offences – obtaining benefit by deception, forgery of documents, dishonest conversion
  • Property damage – graffiti, fire and explosion
  • Dangerous or negligent acts endangering persons – driving under the influence of alcohol or other substance (DUI), Dangerous or negligent driving
  • Prohibited weapons – misuse, unlawfully obtain or possess a prohibited weapon or explosive
  • Threatening behaviour
  • Sexual assault – aggravated sexual assault, child pornography
  • Robbery, blackmail & extortion
  • Homicide – murder, attempted murder, manslaughter

How We Can Assist You

The prospect of being faced with a criminal offence is stressful. You need to know what steps to take to manage the stress related to criminal prosecution and, the adverse impact on your life, your livelihood and your family. One of the first steps in the right direction is getting the right criminal law advice.

If you have been charged with a criminal offence in Perth or other parts of Western Australia, please contact our office for an obligation-free consult.  We will take your calls and if we aren’t in the office we contact you when we have the first opportunity to do so. It is important you feel comfortable discussing all the case issues with your lawyer.

Conversations with clients are legally privileged, meaning we do not discuss or disclose our conversations with anyone else. You should feel comfortable and confident that we have done everything that needed to be done to win your case.

You will be booked for an appointment right away, we will take instructions and begin working on your strategy as soon as possible, regardless of whether you are pleading guilty or not guilty.

It is also very important that you feel comfortable in asking questions about the issues confronting you now. Often some of the stress and anxiety of a situation can be dealt with by answering questions or referring you to services (such as psychologists) that might help deal with the stress that is being faced.

Offence

Have you been charged with a criminal offence?

There are thousands of criminal offences you can be charged within Western Australia.

Below you can click on a box to read information about various offences and how you can successfully defend a criminal prosecution in Western Australia.

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