Drink & Drug Driving
Have you been charged with driving under the influence of drugs or Alcohol? Save U Legal are criminal lawyers in Tweed Heads who can represent you for the best possible outcome.
The law surrounding drink/ driving is quite complex and the services of a qualified, experienced lawyer in these matters should be retained. This area of the law is one of the most prolific with offences being determined daily in local courts around Gold Coast & Tweed Heads.
With an intense media and community focus on the area of drink and drug driving the general view of the courts is that there is really no excuse for breaches of law. Accordingly great weight in sentencing is placed on the aspect of general deterrent with very few drivers having charges dismissed or convictions not found. This is specifically so with High range cases where extraordinary circumstances would be required to escape conviction.
What a lot of people don’t realise when it comes to sentencing for these offences is the aspect of mandatory sentences. This means that as soon as a court finds a person guilty and convicts the person of the charged offence it is then bound in what it can impose as a sentence. This is no more evident than when a court imposes driving suspensions which carry minimum mandatory suspension periods. For example a first offence low range PCA 0.05 -0.08, carries a minimum licence suspension of 3 months in NSW or 1 month in QLD. License suspensions cannot be circumvented once a conviction has been found. For assistance with alcohol abuse please see https://www.aa.org.au/
For more information you can visit our page on traffic law.
