Motoring Offences

Overview

Like most things in life people only tend to appreciate things when they are gone. Don’t take your licence to drive for granted. Its loss can impact on your business, lead to your redundancy, cause relationship difficulties, with hardship and inconvenience a given.

If you are faced with a motoring offence, we can help. Our specialist Motoring Offence Team has the expertise to guide and assist you through any legal processes involved.

Our Motoring Offence expertise includes advising on:

• Failure to identify driver suspected of an offence
• Speeding
• Using mobile phone whilst driving
• Drink driving / being in charge
• Driving without due care and attention
• Failing to comply with a traffic sign
• Failing to stop and / or Failing to report
• Using/ permitting vehicle without insurance
• Defective brakes / steering/tyres

Some motoring offences lead to a straight ban others attract penalty points. For some offences e.g. speeding or driving without due care and attention there is a range of points with the number you receive depending on the circumstances and any aggravating or mitigating features. Twelve points within three years leads to a minimum 6 month ban unless you can show that there are grounds to mitigate that normal consequence. As part of this you can seek to persuade the Court that you would suffer exceptional hardship if you were to be banned for 6 months

We can advise you as to your prospects of successfully defending any of the above motoring offences and others. If a guilty plea is advised, then we can present your case to the Court so that any punishment is kept to a minimum. There may also be occasions when even if you are advised to plead guilty it will be appropriate to make an application to the Court that there are ‘special reasons’ as to why your licence should not be endorsed with points or you should not be banned from driving or there should be a reduction in the length of your ban.

Like any case, preparation is important, and the earlier you begin to look at the legal implications, the better your chances for a successful outcome. It is therefore wise to seek advice as soon as you believe that you might be prosecuted.