Callan is a criminal defence lawyer in Brisbane who assists clients in professional misconduct, proceeds of crime, and serious criminal matters from homicide to assault and sexual offences.
Callan joined Gilshenan & Luton in 2011 and was appointed a director of the firm in 2020.
He appears in a wide variety of complex criminal and professional discipline proceedings, as both solicitor advocate and instructing solicitor, in superior court hearings and sentences, coronial inquests, disciplinary hearings and commissions of inquiry.
Callan has a particular interest in assisting other lawyers with professional discipline proceedings involving the Queensland Law Society and Legal Services Commission, as well as other professionals in misconduct investigations and hearings. A significant part of his practice involves advising and representing government bodies in regulatory prosecutions and the enforcement of their statutory powers.
In 2018, Callan attained specialist accreditation in criminal law. He is Chair of the Queensland Law Society's committee for Specialist Accreditation in Criminal Law and a member of the Proctor Committee, and since 2012 has been the annual editor of the Queensland College of Law's text on Conducting Pleas of Guilty in the Magistrates Court.
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