MISCELLANEOUS DRIVING OFFENCES
We can provide you with a lawyer for legal representation for miscellaneous driving offences. If you face legal proceedings in a Magistrates Court for miscellaneous driving offences and want one of our specialist solicitors to act as your lawyer then please get in touch.
We can provide you with a lawyer who is a specialist in miscellaneous driving offences and can give you advice and assistance and representation at any court, often at short notice.
Our specialist lawyer will make contact with you and provide a first class service to you. We will take your full instructions and if you wish provide you with advice only or representation in court if you so wish.
There are a large number of other offences affecting motorists that are not covered under the main headings in this website. These can affect both the private motorist, company car drivers and professional drivers such as HGV lorry drivers.
All motorists are affected by the construction and use laws. These govern how a vehicle is to be used and what condition it is expected to be maintained in whilst in regular use on UK roads. Offences of this type can, in certain circumstances carry a penalty point endorsement. Common offences include using a vehicle with defective tyres, brakes, steering etc. Some of these offences may be dealt with by a ticket under the vehicle rectification scheme. This allows the driver a certain amount of time to rectify the fault and produce proof of the same to a police station. In return for this he will escape prosecution.
The use of a mobile phone whilst driving is a common sight upon our roads. This offence now carries penalty point endorsement. In particularly bad cases, it can lead to more serious offences being charged and even the imposition of a prison sentence in particularly serious cases. The time when a police officer would verbally warn a motorist for the use of his mobile phone whilst at the wheel of his vehicle are long gone. Courts take a particularly serious view of this offence.
Drivers can also be affected by the issuing of fixed penalty tickets. These are tickets issued for relatively minor offences such as no seat belt being worn and parking tickets.Whilst these are usually nothing more than an inconvenience to most, if you require advice on a matter of this type then please call us.
In relation to commercial vehicles, there are a number of laws in relation to the use of tachographs and excess weight offences to name but a few. If you or your Company are affected by such a case then we would be happy to speak to you.
If a person is disqualified from driving they can, in certain circumstances, apply for their disqualification to be removed. Any such application will need to be made to the Court that imposed the original disqualification. Applications of this type can only be made after a minimum period of two years if the disqualification is less than four yeas, after one half of the disqualification in cases of between four and ten years and five years in any other case.
In deciding such an application, the Court will examine the facts of the original offence, any other circumstances and the character of the applicant together with his conduct since the disqualification was imposed.
If you wish to make such an application then we have experience of conducting such matters and would be happy to give you an indication of your chances of success.