Facts of the Case - Drive whilst disqualified

The client had extensive priors for driving offences including driving whilst disqualified, drink driving and speeding. In the past he had served periods of actual imprisonment for driving offences. In the Magistrates' Court on a plea to two counts of driving whilst disqualified he was sentenced to serve one month of imprisonment.

The client had been diagnosed with bi-polar disorder after his last realease from custody and began receiving treatment that stabilized his life.

The new offences occurred in a period where he was still trying different medications and was not completely stabilized. Josh was able to demonstrate that the past offending had occurred in the presence of an untreated psychiatric condition and the present offences had occurred whilst that condition was not stabilized.