Brooke Winter Solicitors
Facing a Traffic Charge? Find Out What Can Be Done to Protect Your Licence and Reduce the Consequences
A traffic charge can put your licence, income and, in more serious cases, your freedom at risk. Getting the right advice early can make a significant difference to what happens next.
Brooke Winter Solicitors helps clients across Hobart identify the best available outcome for their traffic matter and build a strategy around achieving it. That may mean challenging the evidence, negotiating before court, protecting your ability to drive or reducing the penalty you face.
Led by former police prosecutor Brooke Winter, our team brings more than 20 years of courtroom experience and regular experience in Hobart courts to every matter.
Call 03 6240 5437 or contact us online today to find out what options may be available and what can be done to protect your licence, reduce the penalty or challenge the charge.
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Experience That Helps Us Find the Best Available Outcome
The best strategy in a traffic matter comes from recognising which parts of the case can actually influence the outcome and acting on them early.
With more than 20 years of courtroom experience, our team has handled traffic matters involving different charges, evidence, driving histories and levels of seriousness. That experience helps us assess what is realistically achievable and choose the approach most likely to improve your position.
Principal Lawyer Brooke Winter also brings experience from the other side of the courtroom as a former police prosecutor. We understand how prosecution cases are built, what needs to be proven and what can make a negotiation worth pursuing. This can help us identify opportunities to challenge evidence, seek a reduced charge or negotiate a better position before the matter reaches a contested hearing.
Our regular experience in Hobart courts gives us a strong understanding of how local matters progress, what needs to be prepared and how to present your case effectively.
We bring those advantages together to identify the best available outcome early and build the strategy around achieving it.
How We Can Help Reduce the Impact of Your Traffic Charge
Once we understand the charge, evidence and your driving history, we can identify the best available outcome and build the strategy around pursuing it.
Depending on your circumstances, that may mean:
- Keeping your licence – where there is a lawful option that could allow you to remain on the road.
- Reducing the time you lose your licence – by putting forward the strongest available case for a shorter disqualification.
- Having a charge withdrawn or reduced – where the evidence or circumstances provide a proper basis to negotiate with the prosecution.
- Challenging the charge – where there are weaknesses in the evidence or the prosecution cannot establish what it needs to prove.
- Reducing the fine or penalty – by preparing the material and submissions needed to put your circumstances before the court properly.
- Avoiding more serious consequences – including working to reduce the risk of imprisonment in serious or repeat traffic matters.
We know what strong outcomes can look like across different traffic matters and what needs to happen to pursue them. Our job is to identify the best available result in your case and take the steps most likely to put you in a position to achieve it.
Traffic Offences Our Team Can Help With
Our Hobart traffic lawyers can advise and represent you across a wide range of Tasmanian traffic matters, including:
- Drink and drug driving offences – including drink driving, drug driving, driving under the influence and refusing or failing to provide a required sample.
- Licence offences – including driving while suspended, driving while disqualified, unlicensed driving and breaches of licence conditions.
- Dangerous and serious driving offences – including dangerous driving, reckless driving, negligent driving and offences involving death or serious injury.
- Police pursuit and evasion offences – including evading police and aggravated evading police.
- Speeding and hooning offences – including excessive speeding, street racing, burnouts and other serious driving behaviour.
- Crash-related offences – including failing to stop, remain at the scene or provide assistance after a collision.
- Other traffic offences – including mobile phone, seatbelt, vehicle registration, roadworthiness and other infringement matters.
We can also assist with licence suspensions, demerit-point matters and restricted driver licence applications.
If you are unsure how serious your charge is or what options may be available, speak with our local Hobart office before making your next decision.
If You Need Your Licence for Work, You May Be Eligible for a Restricted Work Licence
If losing your licence would seriously affect your work, income or family responsibilities, you may be able to apply to the Magistrates Court for a restricted driver licence.
If granted, it can allow you to keep driving for approved purposes and under specific conditions while you would otherwise be unable to drive.
A restricted licence is not automatic. The court will consider the level of hardship you would face, whether alternative transport is reasonably available and whether granting the licence is in the public interest.
Our Hobart traffic lawyers can help you:
- Assess whether you are eligible;
- Prepare evidence showing why you need to keep driving;
- Address alternative transport options;
- Prepare supporting documents; and
- Present the application to the court.
A strong application needs to clearly show why losing your licence would cause serious hardship and why a restricted licence is justified in your circumstances.
Want to Know the Best Possible Outcome for Your Case?
If you have been charged with a traffic offence, getting the right advice early can put you in a much stronger position.
The sooner we understand what you have been charged with, the sooner we can identify what options may be available.
Our team will review the circumstances of your charge, your driving history and any documents you have received. We can then explain what you are facing, what outcome may realistically be achievable and what we recommend doing next.
If there is an opportunity to challenge the charge, negotiate before court, protect your licence or reduce the penalty, we want to identify it as early as possible.
Speak with our Hobart traffic lawyers today to find out whether there is an opportunity to protect your licence, reduce the penalty, challenge the charge or negotiate a better outcome before your matter progresses further.
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