Archive: Magistrates Court
Saturday Court Success
In order to clear the backlog of Magistrates’ Courts work, there are now motoring Courts running most Saturdays at a number of locations to deal with drivers who face prosecution for motoring offences. We have represented drivers each weekend for a number of months. Most recently, our barrister attended at […]
Driver Has Disqualification Overturned On Appeal
We represented a driver on Appeal at Bristol Crown Court. He had previously attended at the Magistrates’ Court for sentence relating to a fourth speeding offence, taking him to 12 points on his Licence. The Court had refused to find Exceptional Hardship and imposed a six month ban. Upon taking […]
Another Successful Exceptional Hardship Argument!
Millicent Dooher, barrister, represented this client in the Magistrates’ Court following his 4th speeding offence. The driver was in possession of 9 penalty points and this offence would have brought him up to 12 penalty points and a disqualification. The exceptional hardship argument put forwards was accepted by the Magistrates’ […]
Conviction Re-Opened and Case Dropped By Prosecution
Our client instructed us after receiving notice of a fine and 6 points on his Licence for an offence of Failing to Identify a Driver, following service of a Notice of Intended Prosecution. There had been a number of administrative issues – the plea to the Single Justice Procedure Notice […]
