Chambers has a specialist team dedicated to road traffic law and motoring offences. The Road Traffic Team are experts in this field offering specialist knowledge on procedural and technical defences. The team has an outstanding record in representing those accused of road traffic offences. Members are regularly instructed to travel nationwide in order to defend high profile individuals. The team combines robust advocacy with sensitive client care. In these matters the team appear in the Magistrates Court, Civil Courts and appeals to the Crown Court and High Court.

Members are direct access qualified. See link for further details.

Members of the team are happy to represent and advise on all areas of Road Traffic including the following:

• Drink driving
• Speeding
• Special reasons for not disqualifying
• Dangerous driving
• Failing to furnish information
• Death by dangerous driving
• Death by careless driving
• Taxi licence appeals
• Exceptional hardship
• Failing to provide a specimen for analysis
• Appeals
• Driving without insurance
• Mobile phone use
• Excess weight/overloaded vehicle
• Removal of disqualification
• Contravening Traffic Signs Signals & Road Markings
• Parking

The road traffic team are experts in this complex and developing area of law, often dealing with difficult cases and novel points of law. They have an excellent record of defending private road traffic cases and are regularly instructed to travel countrywide in defending, often high profile individuals. Members combine robust advocacy with sensitive client care and are instructed in Magistrates’ Court cases and in appeals to the Crown Court and High Court.