Sophie Cuykens

Sophie Cuykens

Sophie Cuykens

Associate Lawyer

+32 (0)473 860 802
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Curriculum vitæ

Sophie Cuykens obtained her law degree with high honors from the Université libre de Bruxelles in 1992.

She has been a lawyer at the Brussels Bar since October 1992. She initially practiced criminal law with Me Anne Krywin before joining the firm SJKG in 2004.

She primarily practices business_criminal law, tax criminal law, criminal appeals, and medical criminal law. She assists her clients during police interrogations and is duly registered on the online platform used by the police, the public prosecutor’s office, and investigative judges.

She completed training in cassation procedures provided by the Cassation Bar from 2006 to 2010 and has held the certificate for criminal cassation procedures (in accordance with Article 425, Section 1 of the Code of Criminal Procedure) since 2015.

She has been a teaching assistant in criminal law at the ULB since 1999. She served as an external examiner for law students’ theses from 2020 to 2023 as an invited expert. She was a teaching assistant in business criminal law in 2024. She has been an associate member of the ULB Criminal Law Research Center since its establishment in 2020.

She has been involved in the leadership of the University Certificate program in forensic psychiatry and judicial expertise since the 2024-2025 academic year, and she has been teaching there since 2016.

She has been a professor in the Professional Competence Course for Lawyers of the Brussels Bar since 2000, teaching “Judicial Practice and Consultation in Criminal Matters,” and since 2022, “Advanced Criminal Procedure.”

She was a member of the Criminal Law Commission of the French Bar Council until 2012, and she has been a member of the Criminal Law Commission of Avocats.be since 2012.

She was head of the Criminal Section of the Legal Aid Office of the Brussels Bar from 2007 to 2017 and head of the Police Interrogation Assistance Section of the Legal Aid Office of the Brussels Bar from 2010 to 2017. She has provided (alone or as part of a team) training in interrogation assistance at the Nivelles Bar, the Liège Bar, and at the Avocats.be Summer Universities in 2017 and 2018.


Publications

  • « La prison et les droits des détenus », coécrit avec me R. de Béco, Journal des Procès, 2002, n°432, 433 et 434.

  • « Exécution des peines et sanctions disciplinaires », Journal des Procès, 2003, n°457, p.26.

  • « La contradiction de l’expertise pénale en matière de responsabilité médicale », UB3 Actualités en droit pénal, Larcier, 2014, p.59.

  • « La preuve en matière pénale », coécrit avec L. Kennes et D. Holzapfel, Collection grands arrêts, Larcier, 2015.

  • « L’examen de la contribution à la dette du dommage de la victime entre deux prévenus poursuivis devant le tribunal correctionnel du chef de coups et blessures par défaut de prévoyance et de précaution », note sous Cass., (2è ch. F.), 28 novembre 2018, R.D.P.C., 2019, p. 1164.

  • « Les présomptions en matière répressive » in La science pénale dans tous ses états -liber amicorum Patrick Mandoux et Marc Preumont, Larcier, Bruxelles, 2019.

  • « L’expert judiciaire désigné en matière civile confrontée à l’infraction pénale : quelle attitude adopter ? », Droit pénal de l’entreprise, 2021, p 161.

  • « La peine légalement et judiciairement justifiée : étude d’une théorie controversée », Rev. de dr. pén et crim., 2023, p. 225.

  • « Les limites de l’ingérence publique dans le domicile (obs. sous Cour eur.dr.h., arrêt Sabani c. Belgique, 8 mars 2022) », in R.T.D.H, 2023, n°135, p. 801.

  • Participation à l’ouvrage collectif « Le nouveau Code pénal : commentaire article par article » sur l’article 7 relatif à l’élément moral de l’infraction et sur l’article 40 relatif aux peines applicables aux personnes morales de droit public, à paraître chez Anthémis, Limal, 2024.

Sophie Cuykens

Expertises

Criminal Law

Languages

  • French
  • Dutch
  • English

Information

  • Fee account:
    BE14 6300 2278 7783
  • Client account:
    BE21 6303 2037 5703
  • VAT number:
    BE 0827 963 492
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