Criminal Defence Lawyer Toronto.
You have a right to silence but we can be your voice.
If you’re under investigation or facing charges, you need clear advice, a strong defence, and someone who will stand firmly on your side from day one.
Legal Advice available in French, Serbian, Croatian language.
Top Toronto Criminal Lawyer Near You
Top Toronto Criminal Lawyer Near You
Toronto Criminal Defence Lawyer Who Fights to Protect Your Future
TORONTO | BRAMPTON | NEWMARKET | NORTH YORK | OSHAWA | RICHMOND HILL | MILTON | MISSISSAUGA | OAKVILLE
When you’re facing criminal charges, everything is on the line, your reputation, your livelihood, your freedom.
You need more than legal theory. You need a defence that is strategic, thorough, and built to challenge the case against you.
At Gavran Criminal Defence, every case is handled with a clear objective, protect your rights, minimise the impact, and pursue the best possible outcome.
Ms. Gavran has a proven track record of success. She continuously aims to secure acquittals and withdrawal of criminal charges against her clients. She is always well-prepared and ready to go to trial to fearlessly challenge Crown Attorney’s case.
Among the jury of her peers, Ms. Gavran is known as an authoritative, detail-oriented and result-driven criminal defence lawyer who strives in challenges. She believes in a personalized, persuasive, and vigorous criminal defence of her clients against the State Prosecution, and she uses her criminal trial experience, advocacy and negotiation skills to strategically obtain the best possible result for the clients that she represents.
At all times, you will be informed of steps to be taken and the options that are available to you.
Ms. Gavran provides personalized representation to individuals charged with any criminal and quasi-criminal offence, at all levels of court, in Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area and offers legal advice in English, French, Serbian and Croatian language.
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Financial Crimes
Robbery & Armed Robbery
Impaired Driving & Over 80
Drug Offences
Domestic & Sexual Assault
Violent Crimes & Murder
Bail & Bail Review
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OUR PROMISE
“At Gavran Criminal Defence, we are committed to a persuasive and rigorous criminal law trial advocacy that ensures our clients’ voices are being heard. As fearless criminal defence lawyers, Ms. Gavran relentlessly demand that our clients’ rights be firmly respected and promoted at every step of the criminal justice system.”
Areas Of Practice
While our firm’s primary focus is defending criminal charges falling under the following categories, we do not turn clients away. At Gavran Criminal Defence, we welcome and skillfully represent individuals accused of any criminal offence under the Canadian criminal law:
Violent Offences
Driving Offences
Financial Crimes
Sexual Offences
Firearm And Weapon
Drug Offences
- Drug Possession
- Drug Trafficking
- Drug Importing – Exporting
Ms. Gavran has successfully defended a variety of criminal charges and constantly seeks opportunities to strengthen her clients’ cases. She has represented individuals facing from fraud, assault, drug possession and trafficking charges, to providing legal advice to clients charged with 1st degree murder in high profile cases. In addition, Ms. Gavran received an internationally-recognized accreditation relating to anti-money laundering and terrorism financing investigations. As such, she acted as a financial crime compliance consultant to a prominent financial institution in Toronto, Ontario.
At Gavran Criminal Defence, our belief is that an exceptional criminal defence lawyer is one who uses social psychology, creativity, and strategy in addition to extensive criminal law knowledge to get the best result possible.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS
From the moment you are arrested, you benefit from a number of rights. These include:
- The right to be free from arbitrary detention or arrest
- The right to be informed of the reason for the arrest
- The right to speak to a lawyer without delay
- You can choose to make a call to a criminal defence lawyer of your choice, a Legal Aid lawyer or Duty Counsel
- The right to remain silent
- The right to be tried within a reasonable time
- The right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty.
If any of these constitutional rights have been violated, you have the right to apply to the Court for relief by way of a Charter application, which may result in evidence being excluded or a stay of proceedings being granted in your favour.
YOUR RIGHT TO SILENCE:
Any person who has been arrested or detained by police has the right to remain silent. Except in very limited circumstances, it is not advisable to tell your side of the story to the police. Toronto criminal defence lawyer Ms. Gavran is of strong opinion that it is of uttermost importance that a person charged with a crime exercises this right to remain silent.
Why providing a statement to the police will NOT be helpful to your defence against a criminal charge:
Always remember: it is the police officers’ duty to investigate and to collect evidence against you. They have the duty to interview you about the alleged offence, but you do not have to answer. In fact, you should ascertain your right to silence. While you may very well have evidence that proves your innocence or a reasonable explanation for the situation you are now in, it is best that you first discuss such evidence with a criminal defence attorney in order to ensure that your evidence is strategically presented at the most appropriate time and in the best manner possible. Ms. Gavran has ample experience negotiating with Crown Attorneys to withdraw criminal charges based on evidence overlooked or disregarded by the police.
Freedom
Your right to be free from arbitrary detention or arrest.
Right to be Informed
Your right to be informed of the reason for the arrest.
Right to Silence
Your right to remain silent.
Reasonable Time
Your right to be tried within a reasonable time.
SHOULD YOU PLEAD GUILTY?
When you are accused of committing a crime, you face a variety of decisions that need to be made by you. One of them is whether you wish to plead guilty or whether you want your case to proceed to trial. A plea of guilt means that you admit to committing the criminal offence as it is alleged against you in a document called “synopsis.” If you decide to plead guilty, serious long-term consequences will follow that will permanently impact your life: you will most likely get a criminal record and receive a sentence ranging from a fine to imprisonment. It is strongly recommended that you talk to an experienced criminal defence lawyer as soon as possible and obtain advice prior to making any decisions. At our criminal law firm, we believe in informed decisions.
DO YOU KNOW YOUR RIGHTS?
“The BEST decisions are INFORMED decisions.”
— Ines Gavran, Toronto Criminal Defence lawyer
Serving Toronto, Brampton, Newmarket, North York, Oshawa, Richmond Hill, Milton, Mississauga, and across the GTA.
Legal advice available in English, French, Serbian and Croatian Language.
