Craig Caldicott OAM has extensive experience in criminal cases both interstate and in South Australia. He has appeared as counsel and instructing solicitor in many high-profile cases. Craig has appeared extensively in the High Court of Australia, the Supreme Court of South Australia, the District Court and the Magistrates’ Courts here in South Australia. He has appeared in the District Court in Western Australia, the Supreme Court in the Northern Territory, the Supreme Court in Queensland and New South Wales, the District Court in Victoria and in Tasmanian Courts.

Ever since Craig was admitted to practice in February 1979, he has been practising predominantly in the area of criminal law. His practice has involved dealings with Scotland Yard, FBI, the Ukrainian government as well as both federal and local authorities in Australia. He has appeared in the Australian Crime Commission (formerly the NCA) on a number of occasions and also on coronial inquests into a number of high-profile matters, notably for Dominic Perre.

Craig has appeared as counsel and also instructing solicitor in several High Court cases including South Australia v Totani, Kamleh v DPP and Ridgeway v The Queen which he successfully defended.

Of particular note, to which he is extremely proud, he was the instructing solicitor in one of the first war crimes cases being DPP v Polyukhovich. He was part of the successful defence of Mr Polyukhovich which involved the taking of evidence on commission in the country of Ukraine in 1993.

He has also been involved in a number of significant murder cases, R v Wilson, R v Ford, R v Brittney Dwyer, R v Seymour, R v Casagrande, R v Gebhardt, R v Brougham and R v Collie, Kranz & Lovegrove.

Craig has also been involved in a wide variety of cases such as drink driving, theft, blackmail, drug trafficking, and domestic violence and has managed to achieve many great results for his clients over the years.

Craig appears in the Magistrates’ Court, the District Court and the Supreme Court in South Australia moving between those courts both locally and in country courts, usually on a daily basis.

He is recognised as one of the best specialist criminal lawyers in the State of South Australia and nationally and you will often find him giving lecturers on behalf of the Law Society on specialised criminal subjects.

Craig has an excellent working relationship with police prosecutors, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions and court staff.

He was one of the founding members of the Australian Defence Lawyers Alliance. He has also co-chaired the Criminal Law Committee of the Law Society of South Australia and is often called upon to speak for and on their behalf, to the media.