Hall Payne Lawyers

We provide Criminal Law services in Queensland, Tasmania and New South Wales.

Being charged with a criminal offence will always be daunting. Ensuring you access the right legal advice and support can be crucial at every stage of the process, with the wrong decisions having the potential to lead to devastating consequences.

We can support you in all areas of criminal law, and have a focus on matters that intersect with the workplace, including:

• serious criminal matters, both before and after charges;
• attending formal interviews;
• defending proceedings in all courts;
• defending charges bought by government agencies;
• coronial matters; and
• bail matters.

Hall Payne also have experience assisting in crisis management with a connection to criminal law, such as deaths in the workplace, assistance to those involved as witnesses and the protection of rights.

If you require advice in relation to a criminal matter or you’ve been charged with criminal offence(s), we encourage you to seek advice as soon as possible.

Family law is the area of law that deals with matters like divorce, property settlement, childrens’ issues (including who the children live with, visitation rights and guardianship rights), spousal maintenance and annulment of marriage, among other matters.

We all know that relationship breakdown is stressful. It can also be confusing, traumatic and financially crippling if you don’t get the right advice. Skilled, tailored and timely legal advice will ensure you know your obligations and achieve your rights and entitlements.

Hall Payne’s family lawyers have been helping clients achieve good outcomes promptly and cost-effectively for decades. We give trustworthy and practical advice after couples or families part ways.

A lawyer will tell you that you need legal advice for almost everything, but this is one area of life where legal advice will help you no matter what your situation.

The impact a relationship has on your life and the lives of any children you may have, is significant and legal advice means that you’re fully informed when it comes to making important decisions as to what that impact may be. On a practical level, legal advice will also help you to navigate the multiple deadlines and obligations you face, and will help free you from these administrative concerns so you can focus on the wellbeing of your family and yourself.

While we recommend family law legal advice regardless of your situation, there are a number of situations where legal advice is essential, and seeking urgent advice will have an enormous impact on your life moving forward:

1. When there are children involved or money and property, legal advice will support you in making any decisions that are enforceable.
2. Where you are seeking a court order or are required to appear before the court for other reasons.
3. If your partner is selling, using or removing joint assets or has left you with no money or access to joint funds.