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Specialist in criminal law

Criminal and fines law – case studies

• Search: What do I do if my home or business premises are searched? How can I successfully defend myself? What legal remedies do I have during/after a search? What do I have to do?
•  Pre-trial detention: I or one of my employees or relatives has been arrested. What can/must I do now? How can I be released from pre-trial detention?
• Fines: My company, I myself or my drivers/employees are threatened with fines. What should/can I do? How do I properly defend myself?
• Are criminal charges pending or threatened? How can I proactively protect myself?
• Medical law: Have patient files been requested? I am supposed to hand over patient data! What am I allowed to do/am I required to do? How do I act correctly and still achieve my goal?
• Tax law: How do I correctly file a voluntary self-disclosure? How to deal with tax fraud investigations/tax audits. How to behave in criminal tax matters.
• Traffic accident or fine proceedings: how to get proceedings dropped without effort. Avoid points!

Compliance – Valuable Business Insurance

Compliance is understood to mean the correct behavior of a company and its employees – legally, economically and ethically.

The specialists from Caspers Mock advise you on complying with all legal provisions to which your company is subject.

In doing so, we check your corporate structure in detail and build an individual compliance organization that ensures that legal violations do not take place .

Your advantages

• Our team consists of highly experienced and well-qualified lawyers, who are well respected for their work as defense attorneys and consultants.
• If necessary, close cooperation with technical and medical experts, tax advisors/auditors and professional organizations
• Experience in compliance matters for commercial enterprises, particularly in the following sectors: transport and logistics, metal processing, IT and call center service providers, press and media companies, real estate, construction and residential construction companies
• In medical, insolvency and criminal tax law, the criminal department is supported by other specialist lawyers, e.g. in medical, insolvency and tax law.
• The size of our team allows us to provide defense strategies for several defendants from the same company within a joint defense.
• Coordinated and effective self-reporting by multiple taxpayers possible (e.g. CH, LUX, UAE)

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for criminal law

Lawyer Markus Schmuck
Lawyer Dr. jur. Ingo E. Fromm
Lawyer Christian Saevecke
Lawyer Dr. jur. Marc Fornauf
Lawyer Christian Hecken, LL.M., LL.M.

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in the field of criminal law

Lawyer Wolfhard Uli Kielert
Lawyer Jessica Zerger-Vetter, LL.M.
Lawyer Levin De Bie-Kreusch

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in the field of criminal law

You may find initial information in the following articles. The latest publications can be found above.

• Points in the Driver Fitness Register in Flensburg for driving without a license
• Inadequacies after committing administrative offenses outside the point system?
• Complaint of discontinuation: When the public prosecutor closes an investigation -
• The growing importance of the criminal offense of § 285 StGB: Participation in illegal gambling
• Duty to press charges in the Ahr Valley proceedings and assessment of a hydrologist on the day of the flood - press conference
• Pre-trial detention and "procedural security"
• Damage to stationary measuring equipment
• Provisional suspension of the preliminary proceedings requested
• Criticism of the report on the flood disaster in the Ahr valley
• Farmers' protests and criminal traffic law
• Exceeding the demonstration date for the main inspection and the consequences
• Traffic offenses abroad
• Parking disputes with criminal implications
• Mutual recognition of driving licences in the EU
• Statute of limitations in fine proceedings
• Speed camera warning app used by front passenger: fine for driver?
• No-handed driving ban
• ANGLES MORTS – Duty in France
• Whistleblower Protection Act – easy implementation by an external ombudsman for the company
• Speed on the highway
• The angle of inclination of the license plate on the motorcycle
• Criminal liability for forgery or use of forged vaccination cards
• Environmental badge and fines
• The tax emergency – the search
• Unauthorized removal from the scene of an accident involving a shopping cart that rolls away
• Fines and the tuning scene: "beautification" of the official license plate with black stickers on a Euro field
• New catalog of fines 2021 in sight: fines will be significantly increased
• Scope of the right of access to the files of the person concerned in fine proceedings
• Is there really a fine for using a cell phone while driving?
• Using calculators while driving can lead to fines
• Whistleblower systems mandatory from December 2021 – the EU Whistleblower Directive
• Setting up speed camera dummies
• Searches – often unlawful
• The "new old" fine catalog
• Intent in illegal vehicle race resulting in death
• Drugs and driving
• Corporate liability and whistleblowers
• Violations of the Corona Protection Ordinance
• Errors and confusions in the penalty notice
• New legislation on illegal motor vehicle races
• Use of the built-in touchscreen in a car can lead to a fine
• Speeding violations before and after the 2020 amendment to the German Road Traffic Regulations (StVO)
• Driving bans under the amended German Road Traffic Regulations, possible changes to the existing regulations and how to proceed
• Criminal and fine proceedings, the coronavirus pandemic and the principle of open court hearings
• Covid-19 pandemic, procedural delay and provisional withdrawal of driving license in accordance with § 111a StPO
• Corona crisis and face masks at court hearings
• Stricter rules for speeding in the catalog of fines
• Fine proceedings during the coronavirus pandemic
• Ban on face coverings in traffic and the Covid-19 pandemic
• Catalog of fines for the implementation of the ban on contact to contain the spread of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2
• Criminal proceedings and the coronavirus crisis
• About insults in football stadiums, criminal liability and classification of incidents
• Verdict of the Constitutional Court (VGH) of Rhineland-Palatinate on the PoliScan FM1 measurement method
• Update on parking discs in traffic law
• Fee-based physicians at the hospital are regularly subject to social security contributions...
• Legal tips for motorcyclists on the road
• Regarding the request to send the raw measurement data from speed measurements
• Confiscation of vehicles as a result of criminal offenses
• An overview of blood alcohol limits
• Blood alcohol limits in criminal and administrative fine law
• Traffic violations abroad
• Is hit-and-run driving becoming a national pastime?
• The judicial practice in commissioning facial recognition reports and the chances of avoiding costs
• The witness in the criminal court
• Using a cell phone and other technical devices while driving – the latest changes
• Procedural peculiarities in criminal law
• The forfeiture according to § 29a OWiG
• Criminal consequences of unauthorized removal from the scene of an accident
• Cost liability in criminal proceedings for acquittals and dismissals
• Panama Papers from a criminal law perspective
• Discontinuance of criminal proceedings
• Fine proceedings against novice drivers
• Bias – practical issues
• Criminal and administrative fine consequences of traffic accidents on the road
• Keep a cool head – it is not uncommon for officials to exceed their legal authority during searches.
• Speed trap and chances of defense
• Fine proceedings after road traffic accidents
• Expert opinion on credibility "in favor" of the defendant
• Tax treatment of a freight forwarder's assumption of fines for drivers – decision of the Federal Fiscal Court
• Withdrawal of driving license – decision of the Higher Regional Court of Koblenz
• Duties of the holder and possibilities for delegation in criminal and fine proceedings - presentation
• Legal representation in the event of pre-trial detention in criminal law
• § 411 StPO and challenge for bias
• The witness in criminal proceedings – a case-by-case analysis
• Speed trap! Fines with driving bans – are there any ways out?
• Homeowners as subsidy fraudsters
• The case law generator and the
• Consecutive driving time violations
• Penalty payment for a freight forwarder for drivers
• Fines and points for shippers
• Local jurisdiction in the case of an accusation of ordering or allowing the operation of vehicles
• Overview of criminal law for the Turnverband Mittelrhein gymnastics club – presentation
• Practical issues in criminal and administrative fine law - Lecture for the German Federal Association of Medium-Sized Construction Companies - Presentation
• Search by the tax investigation department – what to do?
• Is it possible to measure speed?
• Traffic fine notices
• Taking into account the economic situation when setting the fine
• Europabrücke: Speed measurement unusable
• Employee status of athletes – criminal and liability law
• Increase in fines for traffic offenses
• Points abroad
• Federal Central Criminal Register and foreign criminal records
• Entries in the Federal Central Criminal Register
• Legal risks when handling fees and third-party funds
• Sleep apnea and driving license
• Note on the judgment: Necessary expenses for the person concerned in the event of an acquittal
• Risks of discontinuing criminal proceedings in accordance with § 153 a StPO in the case of traffic offenses
• Contractor chosen wrongly – fine for the client?
• Legal aid for the injured party in the event of a joint action
• Introduction of an EC penal code?
• § 137 I S. 2 StPO in der täglichen Praxis
• Pre-trial detention – an overview
• Narcotics – what are the penalties for transporting them in a vehicle?
• Challenge of a judge for fear of bias

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Legal requirements

The specialist lawyer for criminal law is training in accordance with § 13 FAO in the areas of

1. methodology and law of criminal defense and the fundamentals of the relevant auxiliary sciences,
2. material criminal law including juvenile, narcotics, traffic, economic and tax criminal law;
3. criminal procedural law including juvenile criminal proceedings and proceedings for regulatory offences, as well as the law governing the execution of sentences and the penitentiary system.