GENERAL CRIMINAL LAW

General criminal law is understood to pertain to the offences described in the second book of the Dutch Penal Code.

These include, among others, offences against property (theft, extortion), violent crimes (robbery, assault, domestic violence), vice cases (indecent assault, rape), fraud and forgery of documents, abuse of office and money laundering.

In addition, the Dutch Penal Code contains several specific acts, such as the Opium Act (Opiumwet) and the Weapons and Ammunition Act (Wet Wapens en Munitie)

Opium Act
Our office often represents clients who have come in conflict with the law within the framework of the Opium Act.Cases within the framework of the Opium Act involve, among others, the manufacturing, sale, import or export of soft drugs or hard drugs, or the possession thereof.
Soft drugs are usually understood to be cannabis or hash. Hard drugs are usually understood to be XTC, cocaine and heroin.

Weapons and Ammunition Act
This predominantly concerns cases involving illegal possession of weapons. We can provide you with advice on this, but also represent you in the event that you have to appear before a judge on charges of illegal possession of weapons. If your weapon has been confiscated while you are of the opinion that it was not in your possession illegally, we will attempt to recover the weapon through an application for recovery of confiscated items. If, for whatever reason, you have lost your weapons licence (temporarily or not), we can help you with that as well.

Criminal organisationsThe aforementioned offences are quite often committed by criminal organisations. Our department has ample experience with criminal organisations, and is able to organise fitting representation for every member of the organisation, either within or outside of the office.

Juvenile criminal law
Finally, all the aforementioned offences can be committed by minors. Minor suspects are subject to specific stipulations of the Dutch Penal Code and their cases are treated differently by the Public Prosecution Service (Openbaar Ministerie) and the Courts. This makes it advisable to engage a lawyer who is specialised in this field. Our office is the right place. 

Our department is very experienced in representing minors and, of course, their parents.