If you are facing a drink driving allegation then we advise that you consult our team as soon as possible. We will work with you to understand your case and advise you on whether a defence or Special Reasons are applicable, doing our utmost to keep you on the road.
Drink Driving Penalties
Our experienced motoring lawyers can assist with your defence in the following ways:
- Advice upon whether the facts of your case amount to a defence to an allegation of drink driving
- Offer mitigation to shorten the length of the driving ban
- Consider whether Special Reasons exist, even where a driver is guilty of a drink drive offence, to avoid a disqualification
Even where you are guilty of an offence of drink driving, expert mitigation from a specialist motoring solicitor can influence the Magistrates on the length of disqualification that was imposed. The preparation of your case or information provided to the Magistrates Court when deciding the length of any driving ban can have a crucial impact on both the sentence imposed and disqualification considerer.
Where there are aggravating features to the drink driving offence such as an accident, injury caused to any other person and/or a high alcohol reading, the Court can consider a term of imprisonment. It is therefore imperative that drivers facing this risk receive expert advice from a motoring lawyer.
Moreover, our expert solicitors will advise you and persuade the Magistrates to consider an Order that you be allowed to undertake the Drink Driver Rehabilitation Course. This is a discretionary course which can reduce the period of your disqualification from driving by 25%.
Where you have a potential defence to a drink driving offence, this will involve expert preparation to ensure the best possible defence is presented in respect of your drink driving charge. Such expert preparation could include the following:
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- Contacting and speaking with potential defence witnesses
- Challenging any legal technicalities and legal loop holes in the prosecuting case.
Instructing an Expert to assist in establishing your defence.
- Checking the correct procedure was followed by the Police, both at the roadside and at the intoxilyser procedure at the Police Station.
- The instruction of a Drink Driving Toxicologist to prepare an Expert Report
- Instruction of a Medical Expert to advise upon a particular medical condition which may be relevant to your case.
- Challenging the blood or urine sample take from you.
Defending Drink Driving Offences
Our experienced motoring lawyers can assist with your defence in thefollowing ways:
- Advice upon whether the facts of your case amount to a defence to an allegation of drink driving
- Offer mitigation to shorten the length of the driving ban
- Consider whether Special Reasons exist, even where a driver is guilty of a drink drive offence, to avoid a disqualification
Even where you are guilty of an offence of drink driving, expert mitigation from a specialist motoring solicitor can influence the Magistrates on the length of disqualification that was imposed. The preparation of your case or information provided to the Magistrates Court when deciding the length of any driving ban can have a crucial impact on both the sentence imposed and disqualification considerer.
Where there are aggravating features to the drink driving offence such as an accident, injury caused to any other person and/or a high alcohol reading, the Court can consider a term of imprisonment. It is therefore imperative that drivers facing this risk receive expert advice from a motoring lawyer.
Moreover, our expert solicitors will advise you and persuade the Magistrates to consider an Order that you be allowed to undertake the Drink Driver Rehabilitation Course. This is a discretionary course which can reduce the period of your disqualification from driving by 25%.
Where you have a potential defence to a drink driving offence, this will involve expert preparation to ensure the best possible defence is presented in respect of your drink driving charge. Such expert preparation could include the following:
- Contacting and speaking with potential defence witnesses
- Challenging any legal technicalities and legal loop holes in the prosecuting case.
- Instructing an Expert to assist in establishing your defence.
- Checking the correct procedure was followed by the Police, both at the roadside and at the intoxilyser procedure at the Police Station.
- The instruction of a Drink Driving Toxicologist to prepare an Expert Report
- Instruction of a Medical Expert to advise upon a particular medical condition which may be relevant to your case.
- Challenging the blood or urine sample take from you.
Drunk in Charge of a Motor Vehicle
Whilst there is no mandatory driving ban for an offence of being drunk in charge, the level of the alcohol reading will dictate whether the Magistrates consider the imposition of 10 penalty points or a disqualification from driving.
Drunk in Charge of Motor Vehicle Defence
#1 Motoring Solicitors have successfully defended allegations of being drunk in charge of a motor vehicle having established that our client did not intend to drive the motor vehicle and it was more than likely that the client would not have driven whilst he remained unfit to drive.
This type of defence involves the instruction of an expert to comment upon when you would have most likely have been fit to drive, having regard to the amount of alcohol you consumed.
Expert evidence is essential to support this type of defence in the Magistrates Court.
If you are guilty of an offence of being drunk in charge of a motor vehicle, an expert motoring lawyer can assist in mitigating on your behalf to avoid the discretionary disqualification from driving.
