Criminal Law

Experience and Understanding

For over 30 years, Peck and Company’s practice has focused on assisting individual and corporate clients respond to criminal and regulatory charges. The firm has experience with all types of charges, including commercial crime, drug possession and trafficking, driving offences, assault and sexual assault, and murder. This depth of experience provides the foundation for determined advocacy, both inside and outside the courtroom.

Proactive Advocacy

The laying of criminal charges can have a significant impact on an individual’s work and personal life. Charges can affect a person’s reputation in the community and can limit employment prospects. Because of the significant consequences that arise from a criminal charge, retaining legal counsel is advisable from the earliest stages of a police investigation.

The lawyers at Peck and Company often advocate for clients at the police investigation stage, before criminal charges are laid. In some cases, counsel can assist clients in avoiding the laying of charges.

Some of our Areas of Practice:

• Driving offences: including driving prohibitions, impaired driving charges, and dangerous driving causing bodily harm or death.
• Drug offences: including trafficking in a controlled substance, production of controlled substances, and importation.
• Commercial crime: including proceeds of crime, fraud, breach of trust, and theft.
• Sexual offences: including sexual assault, sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching, and voyeurism.
• Murder and other violent offences: including first- and second-degree murder, attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder, manslaughter, criminal negligence causing death, assault, aggravated assault and assault causing bodily harm.
• Appeals: including appeals at the British Columbia Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada.