Join Wiseman Lawyers Traffic Lawyer Andrew Wiseman at Bundaberg Magistrates Court as he represents a client charged with Drink Driving. Watch Andrew explain what happened in the courtroom, along with the outcome which he achieved and how he achieved it.
Today, I’m at Bundaberg Magistrates Court, client was charged with repeat drink driving. Today was a reading of .088. The previous offences were readings of .148 and 0.050. Yes, it was a repeat offence. Fortunately, the other two were outside of the last five years, which meant the worst case today was a nine month disqualification. Mandatory Minimum was technically one month, but obviously with that reading and that history, it’s not easy to persuade a magistrate to go that low. Because he’d been charged with unlicensed driving about three years ago and disqualified for a month, that made him ineligible to apply for a work licence. To be eligible to apply, you can’t have lost your licence for any reason in the last five years. We got our client to complete a reformatory course that could be done online, got him to get references based on a template we provide all of our clients.
I flew up this morning, met the client at court. We grabbed a conference room, I ran through my submissions, the procedure, what he can expect in the courtroom. I did have to push the matter reasonably forcefully, because I was trying to get the disqualification down as low as possible. But I was ultimately successful in persuading the magistrate to give the minimum one month disqualification and a modest fine. So, one month disqualification, obviously he can’t drive for a month, but in a month he goes from losing his licence and he’s back on the road and back to working. Modest fine, client’s obviously very happy. I’m Andrew Wiseman at Bundaberg Magistrates Court, thanks for watching.