Edouard Huysmans

Partner

Edouard Huysmans has been a member of the Brussels Bar since 2015 and holds a training certificate in Cassation procedures with regard to criminal matters
(Article 425of the Code of Criminal Procedure). He advises and assists his clients on all legal aspects relating to criminal law and criminal business law. He is also
a keen practitioner of traffic law.

Edouard was a finalist for the Prix Georges Boels in 2016 and was elected a director of the Conférence du Jeune Barreau de Bruxelles, where he served between 2017 and 2019.
He also won the Bâtonnier KIRSCHEN prize (2017-2018) and was a lecturer at the Institut des Carrières Commerciales (ICC).

He is currently a lecturer at ERIP (police academy) where he teaches the criminal procedure course to future police inspectors. He is also a CAPA teacher and teaches the criminal procedure course to trainee lawyers.

Areas of expertise :

• General criminal law and particular criminal
• law (criminal court, Assize Court)
• Business criminal law
• Road traffic law (police court)
• Assistance with Salduz hearings (suspect,
  witness, victim)
• Juvenile law (juvenile offenders – juvenile
  courts)
• Personal injury

Languages

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in law (Université Saint-
  Louis) in 2013
• Master’s degree in law specialising in civil
  and criminal justice (Université Catholique
  de Louvain) in 2015
• Mercator (University of Sherbrooke –
  Canada, QC) in 2015
• Holder of a training certificate in Cassation
  procedures with regard to criminal matters
  (article 425 of the Code of Criminal
  Procedure)