Driving While Disqualified With Previous Convictions

Our team represented a client charged with driving disqualified.

Unfortunately, at the time of committing the offence, the client was on a simple bond for having committed an assault offence approximately six months earlier.

This meant that the plea of guilty to driving disqualified breached his bond for the assault matter.

To make matters more complicated, the client also had some previous convictions for driving disqualified.

When attending at the Adelaide Magistrates’ Court, our team managed to speak with prosecutor who agreed that even though this was a subsequent driving disqualified offence which also breached a bond, that the prosecutor would not oppose a suspended sentence in the circumstances.

Due to some practical thinking and dealing with the matter at the right time, in light of the prosecutor’s attitude and a magistrate sympathetic to our client’s personal circumstances which included the loss of a business and hence his income due to the charges, our client received a 14 day suspended sentence.

The magistrate also agreed with our submissions that no further action should be taken in relation to the breach of bond. This was an excellent result due to the nature of the charge and our client’s prior offending history.