Driving offences occupy a wider range than any other area of criminal law — from a first drink-driving reading dealt with in a single mention, to culpable driving causing death prosecuted in the County Court.
The consequences scale accordingly: mandatory licence disqualification, interlock conditions, criminal records, and, at the serious end, substantial imprisonment.
Collins Chambers acts in driving matters across that full range: drink and drug driving, driving while suspended or disqualified, careless and dangerous driving, licence and demerit matters, and the serious indictable offences of culpable driving and dangerous driving causing death or serious injury.
In summary matters, the firm’s attention is on the points that actually decide these cases: the lawfulness of the intercept, the compliance of breath and blood procedures with the legislation, the accuracy of the instrument evidence, and — where the offence is established — the presentation of the circumstances that bear on penalty and disqualification. Mandatory minimum disqualification periods leave the court limited discretion; what discretion remains must be properly engaged.
In indictable driving matters, the work is conducted with the same structure as any serious prosecution: complete command of the forensic material — collision reconstruction, toxicology, telematics and dashcam evidence — committal strategy, and trial preparation.
For most clients, the licence is the livelihood. The firm advises realistically on what can and cannot be achieved in the circumstances, and prepares each matter so that the achievable outcome is the one obtained.