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Expert representation for a wide range of motoring offences

SPECIALIST MOTORING OFFENCE SOLICITORS IN PRESTON

Facing disqualification or penalty points? When your job, business or family life depends on your ability to drive, you need expert legal representation.

At Gowlings Solicitors, we specialise in defending motorists and helping clients protect their licence, livelihood and future. From speeding and totting up matters to drink driving, drug driving and dangerous driving allegations, we provide practical advice and robust representation tailored to your circumstances.

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PROTECTING YOUR LICENCE, LIVELIHOOD AND FUTURE

Strategic advice and representation for a wide range of motoring offences

Expert Representation for Motoring Offences

We advise and represent clients facing a wide range of road traffic allegations, from speeding and mobile phone offences through to dangerous driving, drink driving and drug driving matters.

Protecting Your Licence and Livelihood

A motoring conviction can affect your job, your business and your family life. We focus on protecting your position and minimising the impact a disqualification or conviction may have on your future.

Special Reasons and Exceptional Hardship

Where appropriate, we can prepare and advance arguments relating to Special Reasons and Exceptional Hardship to help you avoid or reduce a disqualification.

Strategic Advice and Court Representation

From first instructions through to representation in the Magistrates’ Court or Crown Court, we provide straightforward legal advice tailored to the facts of your case.

Motoring Offences

The law regarding road traffic offences is stricter than ever, and even what may seem like a straightforward allegation can carry serious consequences. Penalty points, fines, disqualification and even imprisonment can all follow depending on the nature of the offence.

At Gowlings Solicitors, we provide specialist legal defence for a wide range of motoring offences and road traffic matters. We understand how important your licence can be to your job, your business and your family life, and we work to protect your position from the outset.

We can assist with matters including:

  • Dangerous Driving: Robust defence against allegations of driving that falls far below the standard expected of a competent and careful driver.
  • Death or Serious Injury by Dangerous Driving: Expert representation in serious cases involving life-changing consequences.
  • Drug Driving & Excess Alcohol: Challenging forensic evidence, blood or saliva results, and police procedures.
  • Failure to Provide a Specimen: Legal advice and representation if you have been charged with failing to provide breath, blood or urine samples.
  • Using a Mobile Phone Whilst Driving: Defence against the 6-point penalty and significant fines for handheld device use.
  • Speeding & Totting Up: Representation aimed at helping you avoid disqualification when you reach 12 penalty points.

If you are being investigated, have received a summons, or are already due before the court, contact our team today for expert advice and representation.

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SPECIAL REASONS, EXCEPTIONAL HARDSHIP AND APPEALS

Motoring law is complex, but you do not have to face it alone. In the right case, there may be legal arguments available to help avoid or reduce a disqualification and protect your licence.

We can advise and represent you in relation to:

  • Special Reasons arguments;
  • Exceptional Hardship applications;
  • Appeals against conviction or sentence; and
  • Applications for the early removal of disqualification.

Special Reasons may apply where there are circumstances directly connected to the offence itself. Even where an offence is admitted, the court may decide not to disqualify or endorse your licence if Special Reasons can be established. Examples may include spiked drinks, driving only a very short distance, or a genuine emergency situation.

Exceptional Hardship applications may be available where a driving ban would cause disproportionate hardship to your business, employees, family or others who rely on you. This can be particularly important where you are facing disqualification under the totting up rules.

We can assess your circumstances carefully and provide clear, practical advice on the options available to you.

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APPEALS AND EARLY REMOVAL OF DISQUALIFICATION

If you have already been convicted of a motoring offence or disqualified from driving, that may not always be the end of the matter. In some cases, it may be possible to challenge the conviction itself or appeal against the severity of the sentence imposed.

At Gowlings Solicitors, we can advise on appeals against conviction or sentence and assess whether there are proper grounds to take the matter further. We provide clear, practical advice on the prospects of success and the procedure involved.

In appropriate cases, we can also advise on applications for the early removal of disqualification. Where a driver has served a substantial portion of a longer disqualification, it may be possible to apply to the court for the return of their licence earlier than originally ordered.

We assess each case carefully and provide strategic advice tailored to your circumstances, the history of the matter and the impact disqualification is having on your work, business and family life.

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WHY REPRESENTATION MATTERS

A motoring conviction is about far more than penalty points or a fine. It can affect your employment, your insurance costs, your family responsibilities and your day-to-day independence. Where your ability to drive is important to your livelihood, expert legal representation can make a significant difference.

At Gowlings Solicitors, we carefully analyse the evidence, scrutinise police procedure and consider whether the prosecution case can properly be challenged. We provide strategic advice on plea, preparation and the most effective way to present your circumstances before the court.

Our team delivers clear, practical advice together with robust representation in the Magistrates’ Court and, where required, the Crown Court.

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Keep Your License for Your Job or Business

For professional drivers and business owners, a ban can mean the end of a career. We focus on the impact a disqualification would have on your livelihood to keep you mobile and your business running.

Speak to a Motoring Offence Solicitor in Preston Today

Early legal intervention is critical to the success of your case. Contact our specialist team for a confidential consultation.

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