WHO WE ARE
Mark Howden and Peter Saggers
Mark and Peter are Criminal Law Accredited Specialists. This means they are recognised by the Queensland Law Society as having completed the stringent requirements to become specialists. Indeed the Queensland Law Society recognises only a handful of specialists throughout the State.
Mark is a member of the Queensland Law Society Criminal Law Committee and regularly presents papers to conferences and seminars. He is a former barrister and has appeared in jury trials in the District and Supreme Courts. Mark was admitted to practice in 1988 and has practised in criminal law since 1991.
Peter graduated with honours in law and has an extensive network of contacts throughout Queensland. He maintains a close relationship to senior members of the Queensland Bar. He has represented clients in numerous high profile matters including R v Aboud where he secured an acquittal for a woman charged with murdering her husband.
Our team
In addition to Mark and Peter, our team comprises 6 lawyers.
Kate Juhasz joined Howden Saggers Lawyers in 2007 having previously been employed at a large criminal law firm. Kate is a former Associate to His Honour Justice Muir.
Michael Cridland was a senior criminal lawyer at Legal Aid Queensland prior to joining Howden Saggers Lawyers in 2008. He has over 10 years experience in conducting large and complicated criminal law matters.
Both Michael and Kate work from our Brisbane office.
Kristie Doyle and Kate Power manage an extremely busy practice at our Logan office. They are renowned for their strong work ethic and organisational abilities.
Kristie, in addition to practising criminal law, has an interest in children’s matters. This includes cases involving the Department of Child Safety.
Kate has a number of years experience having worked not only in private practice, but was also an in-house lawyer at the DPP and at Legal Aid Victoria before joining Howden Saggers Lawyers.
Howden Saggers Lawyers recently acquired Inala Lawyers & Associates and the criminal law files previously conducted by that firm. Kevin Cartledge and Sasanka (‘Sunny’) Munasinghe now manage that practice.
Kevin previously managed our Logan office. He was an in-house lawyer at the DPP before being recruited by Howden Saggers Lawyers in 2007. He conducts all his own advocacy and is highly regarded by both prosecutors and defence advocates.
Sunny was previously an employee of Inala Lawyers & Associates and on acquisition of that firm, commenced employment with Howden Saggers Lawyers. He is experienced in both criminal law and care and protection cases.
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