Liberty Law

Edmonton
300 Maclean Block
10110 107 St NW
Edmonton, AB
T5J 2A7
Phone: (780) 784-7500
Toll Free: (833) 784-7500

Grande Prairie
10014 99 St #510
Grande Prairie, AB
T8V 3N4
Phone: (780) 539-9300
Toll Free: (800) 565-5415

Fort McMurray
#203A, 9707 Franklin Ave.
Fort McMurray, AB
T9H 2K1
Phone: (587) 275-0035

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LIBERTY LAW

Experienced Criminal Defence Lawyers

Notable Cases

Notable Cases

  • Case Type: Sexual Assault – Youth File
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  • Outcome: Stay of Proceedings after successful 276 application
  • Date: 2026
  • Defended by: Kim Hardstaff

A young person attending high school was accused of sexual assault...

  • Case Type: Sexual Interference
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  • Outcome: Common Law Peace Bond
  • Date: 2026
  • Defended by: Kim Hardstaff

Two individuals met on a dating app and the complainant was underage...

  • Case Type: Dangerous Driving Causing Death
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  • Outcome: Charges withdrawn in docket
  • Date: 2026
  • Defended by: Kim Hardstaff

Crown was persuaded nothing criminal occurred during a tragic automobile accident...

  • Case Type: Fraud Over $5,000
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  • Outcome: Negotiated a joint submission of two years.
  • Date: 2026
  • Defended by: Kim Hardstaff

Theft from employer over the course of several years (approximately $400,000)...

  • Case Type: Sexual Assault - Sexual Assault
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  • Outcome: Case dismissed on day of trial
  • Date: 2026
  • Defended by: Kim Hardstaff

A young person was accused of sexual assault by his ex-girlfriend...

  • Case Type: Sexual Interference
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  • Outcome: Contested sentencing.
  • Date: 2026
  • Defended by: Kim Hardstaff

Accused instructed counsel to plead guilty and achieve the best possible sentencing outcome...

  • Case Type: Sexual Assault - Sexual Assault
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  • Outcome: Common Law Peace Bond
  • Date: 2026
  • Defended by: Kim Hardstaff

A woman was charged with sexual assault on a teenager at a movie theatre...

  • Case Type: Sexual Assault - Sexual Assault
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  • Outcome: Not guilty
  • Date: 2026
  • Defended by: Kim Hardstaff

Husband and wife separated. A year later, the wife alleged sexual offences...

  • Case Type: Homicide - Second Degree Murder
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  • Outcome: Stayed
  • Date: 2026
  • Defended by: Robert LaValley

The client was a youth charged with second degree murder...

  • Case Type: Homicide - First Degree Murder
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  • Outcome: Guilty plea to manslaughter
  • Date: 2026
  • Defended by: Robert LaValley

Client was charged with first degree murder of a child in her care...

  • Case Type: Sexual Assault - Sexual Assault
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  • Outcome: Mistrial
  • Date: 2026
  • Defended by: Robert LaValley

Client was convicted after trial of sexual assault on a child...

  • Case Type: Sexual Assault - Sexual Assault
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  • Outcome: Not Guilty Verdict
  • Date: 2026
  • Defended by: Robert LaValley

Our client was a youth charged with a sexual assault on an ex-girlfriend...

  • Case Type: Sexual Assault - Sexual Assault
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  • Outcome: Not Guilty Verdict
  • Date: 2026
  • Defended by: Robert LaValley

Our client was charged with sexual assault, and choking after a tinder date...

  • Case Type: Sexual assault, sexual interference, and luring an individual under the age of 16
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  • Outcome: Acquitted of all charges
  • Date: 2026
  • Defended by: Robert LaValley

Our client was charged with luring, sexual assault and sexual interference...

  • Case Type: Arson and Fraud
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  • Outcome: Charges Stayed
  • Date: 2026
  • Defended by: Robert LaValley

Our client was accused of intentionally burning down his house, and his neighbors’ houses for insurance money...

  • Case Type: Sexual Assault - Sexual Assault
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  • Outcome: Charges Withdrawn
  • Date: 2025
  • Defended by: Eamon O'Keeffe

Our client was a physician, accused by an employee of sexually assaulting...

  • Case Type: Sexual Assault - Sexual Assault
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  • Outcome: Charges Withdrawn; Not Guilty Verdict
  • Date: 2025
  • Defended by: Eamon O'Keeffe

Our client, the principal of a Junior High School was accused of sexual assault...

  • Case Type: Sexual Assault - Sexual Assault
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  • Outcome: Charges Withdrawn
  • Date: 2026
  • Defended by: Eamon O'Keeffe

Our client was charged with sexual assault after a woman suffered an apparent psychiatric episode...

  • Case Type: Sexual Assault - Sexual Assault
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  • Outcome: Not Guilty Verdict
  • Date: 2024
  • Defended by: Eamon O'Keeffe

Our client was a divorced father with addictions issues, sharing custody of his son...

  • Case Type: Homicide - First Degree Murder
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  • Outcome: House Arrest
  • Date: 2023

Husband of 50 years ends his wife’s medical suffering and is charged with first degree murder...

  • Case Type: Homicide - Second Degree Murder
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  • Outcome: Probation
  • Date: 2023

Youth initially charged with second degree murder resolved successfully...

  • Case Type: Homicide - Attempted Murder
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  • Outcome: Not Criminally Responsible
  • Date: 2022

Adult daughter drove her car into her mother pinning her between the vehicle and a wall, causing life threatening injuries...

  • Case Type: Traffic - Dangerous Driving
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  • Outcome: License Suspension
  • Date: 2024

Client was charged with dangerous driving causing death. He failed to stop at a stop sign on a rural highway...

  • Case Type: Impaired Driving - Impaired Driving
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  • Outcome: Dismissed
  • Date: 2025

Client was charged with impaired driving after driving his vehicle into a storm water pond...

  • Case Type: Motor Vehicle - Motor Vehicle Offence Involving Fatalities
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  • Outcome: Dismissed
  • Date: 2025

Client was charged after entering onto a highway and colliding with a motorcycle...

  • Case Type: Sexual Assault - Sexual Assault
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  • Outcome: Unfit to Stand Trial
  • Date: 2024

Client facing serious charges. Defence counsel had significant concerns respecting client’s memory...

  • Case Type: Drugs - Trafficking in Narcotics
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  • Outcome: Dismissed
  • Date: 2022

Client charged with trafficking 2.2 kilograms of cocaine in a shopping center parking lot...

  • Case Type: Sexual Assault - Sexual Assault
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  • Outcome: Acquitted
  • Date: 2024

Client charged with sexual assault in British Columbia...

  • Case Type: Sexual Assault - Sexual Assault
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  • Outcome: Not Guilty
  • Date: 2023

Our client’s marriage deteriorated and ended in divorce...

  • Case Type: Sexual Assault - Sexual Assault
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  • Outcome: Not Guilty
  • Date: 2024

Our client was the Chief of a First Nation.  During an election campaign...

  • Case Type: Sexual Assault - Sexual Assault
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  • Outcome: Dismissed
  • Date: 2024

A woman went to the RCMP and reported that our client had sexually assaulted her 50 years earlier...

  • Case Type: Kidnapping
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  • Outcome: Dismissed
  • Date: 2025

Two accused were charged with kidnapping with a firearm.  Both accused found...

  • Case Type: Firearms Trafficking
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  • Outcome: House Arrest
  • Date: 2025

Client charged with trafficking two restricted firearms.  Given the accused’s unique...

  • Case Type: Homicide - First Degree Murder
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  • Outcome: Manslaughter
  • Date: 2009

Client charged as a party to four counts of first-degree murder involving the deaths...