Kristy is the Director of Bell Criminal Lawyers, a boutique, specialist criminal law firm based in the Brisbane CBD.
Kristy has been engaged with the practice of criminal law since 2011. Despite commencing her career as a Prosecutor, she quickly found her calling as a criminal defence lawyer and is now one of a handful of Accredited Criminal Law Specialists in Queensland.
Kristy is a member of the Queensland Law Society’s Criminal Law Committee and Queensland Law Society’s Specialist Accreditation Committee. Kristy has been consistently recognised as one of Queensland’s recommended leading Criminal Defence Lawyers in Doyle’s Guide.
Kristy works on all kinds of criminal and quasi-criminal matters including investigative hearings, commissions, coronial inquests, parole applications and criminal confiscations matters.
Kristy understands being charged with a criminal offence is a distressing experience and considers discretion imperative in the conduct of all her matters, irrespective of the profile of her clients. She takes a considered and empathetic approach to client care, but is unyielding in the advocacy of her client’s rights.
Kristy’s areas of practice are:
• Criminal Law
• Investigative Hearings
• Proceeds of Crime
• Parole Applications
• Traffic Offences
• Domestic Violence
• Coronial Inquests
A) A woman acquitted of acts intended to cause grievous bodily harm for striking her husband and his mistress with a vehicle in 2022. A jury accepted she did not intend to cause them serious harm.
B) Appeared in a coronial inquest on behalf of the family of a young woman murdered in a Queensland country town. The man had already been acquitted of murder in the Supreme Court, but the Coroner found him responsible for her death after a two-week inquiry.
C)A man charged with serious domestic violence offences against his then girlfriend, acquitted after the jury accepted he was acting in self-defence.
D)A man charged with stealing half a million dollars from the financial institution by which he was employed, released from custody after only 12 months.
E)A man who identified as gay, charged with the rape of a female friend. Charges dropped after the jury could not be satisfied of his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
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