Drink driving and related offences
Drink driving is a serious offence that will cost your driving licence if you are convicted. The same goes for offences like failing or refusing to provide a specimen of breath when the police suspect that you have been drink driving.
We will talk to you about what happened leading up to your arrest, what you want to achieve, and we will consider all the evidence against you so that we can give you the best advice, tailored to your circumstances.
Our motoring lawyers are experts in defending drink driving allegations. We even have a dedicated website for drink driving offences that has been helping motorists keep their licences since 2012: London Drink Driving Solicitor.
Careless and dangerous driving
Careless and dangerous driving both require the prosecution to prove that the standard of your driving fell below the standard expected of a careful and competent driver - the difference is that for dangerous driving, the prosecution must prove your driving was far below the standard of driving expected.
We always approach these cases by assessing whether your driving complied with the Highway Code. We look at any video evidence to understand why you drove how you did and to see whether anybody else involved in the incident was responsible for what happened.
We will also look for other avenues to attack the prosecution case. Their case often relies on expert evidence from police officers trained in collision investigation and challenging that evidence is crucial to success in many cases.
Totting up to 12 points
If you are fined multiple times within three years of each offence, you run the risk of totting up to 12 or more penalty points and being disqualified from driving. The first totting up ban is six-months, the second is a year, and the third is two-years!
We tackle these cases in two ways. First, we will look for a defence to one or more of the allegations to avoid you totting up at all. Sometimes though there is no defence, so the second line of defence is to persuade the court that disqualifying you from driving will cause exceptional hardship either to you or somebody else.
We will take a holistic look at your circumstances; everything from your job to your hobbies to you family life to your financial commitments. We will consider how a driving ban will impact you and those in your life so that we can put together a persuasive argument that will do everything possible to convince the court not to disqualify you from driving.
Everything else
There are too many motoring offences for us to list on one webpage but be assured, if the police can accuse you of doing it, we have the solicitor who can defend you.
Don't hesitate to call us on 020 8242 4496 or visit our contact page to get in touch and give yourself the best possible chance of being acquitted,
