All Driving Offence Case Studies

This is a case study on reducing Dangerous Driving Causing Serious Injury to Careless Driving. Following our client’s interview and the investigation, he was charged with Dangerous Driving Causing Serious Injury. At the time of the alleged offence, the client had no relevant criminal history and was 51 years old ...

This is a case study on pleading guilty to Dangerous Driving. Our client was aged 61 at the time of the alleged offending and had no relevant prior court history. What is alleged to have occured? The incident occurred during the client’s employment as a bus driver wherein it was ...

This is a case study on Exceed Speed Limit at 50/h above the limit. Our client had been charged with driving 148km/h in a 100-zone. If you get caught going this quickly, you’re looking at a mandatory minimum license suspension of 12 months. Unfortunately the law in this area is ...

This is a case study on withdrawing a charge of Driving Without Headlights. What is alleged to have occured? Our client was a taxi driver who had previously elected to take the 1 x point option on his licence after accruing a number of demerit points over time. On the ...

This is a case study on a charge of Drive Whilst Disqualified resulting in a fine with no licence disqualification. Our client was charged with two counts of Driving Whilst Disqualified against section 30 of the Road Safety Act 1986 (Vic). The offences were committed less than two months apart ...

This is case study on charges of Assault and Careless Driving resulting in a financial penalty. What is alleged to have occured? Our client was charged with several offences following a road rage incident. He was veering in and out of his lane and the victim’s car nearly did his ...

This is a case study on Drive Unregistered Motor Vehicle and fraud-related traffic charges. The client made full admissions to the police and subsequently sent a letter of apology to them. What is alleged to have occured? Our client was charged with fraudulently using false registration plates, fraudulently using/altering compliance ...

This is a case study on an application for diversion for Careless Driving. What is alleged to have occured? Our client was driving alone in their vehicle when they lost concentration and failed to negotiate a sweeping bend in the roadway. The client had been driving for a lengthy period ...

This is a case study on driving whilst suspended on a court-imposed suspension. What is alleged to have occured? Our client was charged with Driving Whilst Suspended following a court-imposed suspension for excessive speed, which is an aggravating feature of the offending. The matter also involved deception as the client ...

This is a case study on a sentence of Community Corrections Order for road rage offences. What is alleged to have occured? Following a brief verbal argument with another driver, our client and the other driver stopped their vehicles on the side of the road. Our client then approached the ...

This is a case study on a charge of Reverse When Unsafe resulting in a fine without conviction. What is alleged to have occured? Our client was on his way home from work when he stopped off at the shops. It was quite late, and it was dark. As he ...

This is a case study on Careless Driving resulting in a financial penalty. What is alleged to have occured? Our client had got into his car after work. He reversed his car, and at that moment was blinded by bright sunlight. He proceeded to reverse, and while doing so accidentally ...

Our young client was charged with Driving Whilst Suspended and Driving an Unregistered Motor Vehicle. She had no criminal or traffic priors. She was a busy student who was working in shift work whilst studying. What is alleged to have occured? The client’s demerit points had accumulated and she believed ...

This is a case study on a sentence of adjourned undertaking without conviction for Drive Whilst Suspended. Driving home from seeing his girlfriend late one night, our client became confused in an area undergoing roadworks. It was dark and the weather was poor. The normal road markings had been painted ...

This is a case study on Driving Whilst Disqualified with an aggravating feature. What is alleged to have occured? Our client was pulled over by the police and checks revealed that he was the holder of a suspended driver’s licence. It had been suspended by a court some weeks prior ...

This is a case study on a charge of Drive Whilst Suspended being a fourth offence. What is alleged to have occured? Our client is in his mid 30’s and was a qualified engineer on a six figure income who endured a work place injury. He has been declared unfit ...

This is a case study on Reckless Conduct Endangering Life resulting in a not guilty verdict. Our client was arrested for recklessly endangering death and serious harm and failure to render assistance. What is alleged to have occured? The client was driving a work vehicle in the south-eastern suburb on ...

This is a case of diversion application for Careless Driving. What is alleged to have occured? Our client was charged with one count of Careless Driving. She was driving her partner’s ute on a suburban street early in the morning and in a moment of fatigue and inattention, had an ...

This is a traffic offence case resulting in a fine without conviction for Exceed Speed Limit and other charges. The client was young (19 years old) at the time of the offence, had an excellent work history, and has just completed an apprenticeship. What is alleged to have occured? Our ...

This matter was an appeal against a sentence by the Magistrates’ Court of an immediate term of imprisonment of 2 months for a charge of driving whilst suspended. What is alleged to have occured? Our client had 5 relevant priors for driving whilst suspended/disqualified although none were during Court ordered ...

This is a case study on an appeal for a sentence of Community Corrections Order involving a huge number of hours of unpaid community work. This sentence was imposed against driving offences. What is alleged to have occured? Our client had previously pleaded guilty to two charges of Driving Whilst ...

This is a case of Drive in a Dangerous Manner with priors for excessive speeding. What is alleged to have occured? Our client was charged with Drive in a Dangerous Manner (speed dangerous). The charge alleged that our client was driving his vehicle at 209 km/hr in a 100 km/hr ...

This is a case of Driving Whist Suspended that resulted in a fine with no conviction and no licence suspension. What is alleged to have occured? Our client had received correspondence from VicRoads advising him that his license was to be suspended for a period of 3 months due to ...

This is a case of Careless Driving dismissed under section 76 of the Sentencing Act. What is alleged to have occured? Our client was charged with Careless Driving and Failing to Have Proper Control of a Vehicle after falling asleep behind the wheel at speed, veering across a number of ...

Following suspension of his licence due to loss of demerit points, our client was suspended from driving for 3 months by VicRoads. What is alleged to have occured? The client was then caught driving while suspended on three separate occasions during the period. He was charged with: Drive While Suspended ...

This is a case study on a charge of Drive Whilst Suspended resulting in a financial penalty but with no order against licence. What is alleged to have occured? Our client was suspended for driving as a result of demerit point offences. He, however, drove his vehicle to work after ...

Our client was involved in a road rage incident which began when the driver of another vehicle appeared to not see our client as he was changing into our client’s lane. What is alleged to have occured? Our client tooted the horn to warn him and the driver took evasive ...