Hi all

Just thought id post up for thoes of you whom are aware of what was going on with me or anyone wishing to know, I have concluded my activities in the brisbane magistrates courts today with the return to me of my lisence, the overturning of my suspension and the full restoration of all my points.

In total I was suspended from driving for aproximatly 14 hours.

The charge was failure to give way when entering the road from a road related area, 3 points, $105

The suspension was for accumulation of demerit points while driving on a good behaviour bond.

Other fee's included $170 in legal advice which was 100% useless, they told me I couldnt, wouldnt, win, unless I hired them. Damn lawyers, the judge told me in court today that he hopes I have fired them.

Thanks

Ian

Hi all

Just thought id post up for thoes of you whom are aware of what was going on with me or anyone wishing to know, I have concluded my activities in the brisbane magistrates courts today with the return to me of my lisence, the overturning of my suspension and the full restoration of all my points.

In total I was suspended from driving for aproximatly 14 hours.

The charge was failure to give way when entering the road from a road related area, 3 points, $105

The suspension was for accumulation of demerit points while driving on a good behaviour bond.

Other fee's included $170 in legal advice which was 100% useless, they told me I couldnt, wouldnt, win, unless I hired them. Damn lawyers, the judge told me in court today that he hopes I have fired them.

Thanks

Ian

i was once told i needed to plead guilty by my lawyer for speed, represented myself and walked away free

haha speeda s in the drug or speeding??

Well done.. yeah, they will always talk you out of it. The battle is to always stand your ground.

Ahhh nah some lawers i swear they get their 100 bucks and they tell you thier "legal advice" and when you toddle off to the court thier laughing in thier wads of cash that they got money from telling you completely stupid legal advice.

I dunno if i were in the same situation that ian was id do the same, i might go for legal advice, but in the end the best thing to do is go with your gut feeling then you wont regret it as much.

Edited May 4, 200719 yr by ze_flexy_1

Excellent news

I'm not a huge fan of lawyers either, it's a case of the majority ruining it for the dew decent ones IMHO. I'd have to go along with Steph's comment re gut feeling and regrets too.

Yes some lawyers are dodgy but not all and sometimes not engaging a lawyer can be a bad thing in the eyes of the Court.

But congrats on the victory but I'd be aware that your car is probably on the "target car" list that the police have.

Congrats.

Watch for them now... once they black list your plates you'll forever get bothered by them.

Luckily I haven't been black listed, sure I've had tickets, some I didn't agree with but I paid the fine and took it for the sake of avoiding courts until I really need it.

Good luck, and maybe you should look into another set of plates, just goto the transport department and get replacements, will help the whole spot you on sight, unless they do a plate check

I was in the extact situation last year accumulation of demerit points while driving on a good behaviour period, i hired a lawyer cost me $990 they did my affidavit etc represented me in court, the judge read through my affidavit typed up by my lawyer showing hardship caused if i lost my license.I had a lady judge she basically looks at my driving history and said it wasnt to bad, but the affidavit didnt have good enough reasons showing hardship but my lawyer explained more in detail that i needed my license back etc etc, at the end i ended up getting it back restarting my good behavior period. I think i was lucky 2 people who went before me in the court room both had lawyers with them didnt get theres back, but one of them has being in there for the second time so that was probabaly why he didnt get it back. So at the end of the day it was worth the money hiring a decent lawyer if you got the money.

Well thats good news there Ian...

I guess just put that money to "charma" the lawyer will get his own one day

Anyways, makes me pat my head and think there is a dollar to be made in all this... Hummm

Anyone who wants useless legal info please donate $100 to "Happy Dude law advice" care of Col and ill supply you with the most pointless info that will give you no help at all. Look at it like your giving the money to the devil you know

Congrats.

Watch for them now... once they black list your plates you'll forever get bothered by them.

Luckily I haven't been black listed, sure I've had tickets, some I didn't agree with but I paid the fine and took it for the sake of avoiding courts until I really need it.

Good luck, and maybe you should look into another set of plates, just goto the transport department and get replacements, will help the whole spot you on sight, unless they do a plate check

AHHH CRAP.....*NNNNNNnnnnnnoooooo..."

Yeah i think its about time ian gets some spec plates.

Well thats good news there Ian...

I guess just put that money to "charma" the lawyer will get his own one day

Anyways, makes me pat my head and think there is a dollar to be made in all this... Hummm

Anyone who wants useless legal info please donate $100 to "Happy Dude law advice" care of Col and ill supply you with the most pointless info that will give you no help at all. Look at it like your giving the money to the devil you know

LOL ok jus give me a minute and im sure he'll fall for that again.... *sarcasm intended* hehe!

I was in the extact situation last year accumulation of demerit points while driving on a good behaviour period, i hired a lawyer cost me $990 they did my affidavit etc represented me in court, the judge read through my affidavit typed up by my lawyer showing hardship caused if i lost my license.I had a lady judge she basically looks at my driving history and said it wasnt to bad, but the affidavit didnt have good enough reasons showing hardship but my lawyer explained more in detail that i needed my license back etc etc, at the end i ended up getting it back restarting my good behavior period. I think i was lucky 2 people who went before me in the court room both had lawyers with them didnt get theres back, but one of them has being in there for the second time so that was probabaly why he didnt get it back. So at the end of the day it was worth the money hiring a decent lawyer if you got the money.

It came down to a few things, I had a string of good luck, the guys before me had 5 and 6 page traffic histories, I had half a page and they were well spaced out, I had done advanced driver training with a recognized school and the offence wasnt for speeding or hooning - additionally I rocked up early, I was dressed properly, neatly and profesionally, whereas alot of the younger blokes there were not (man you should of seen what they were wearing)

I typed up a pretty profesional affidavit myself as well, and I had photos of the location of the offence and was able to sucessfully argue against the lawyer(Im not sure if he really was a lawyer) representing QLD Transport with these. There were a few other things I argued but id prefer to keep some details private.

My car will not be blacklisted, This happened around 8 months ago and was in my last car.

MFC05, I will speak to you more about it on MSN as per your PM dude.

I once hired I legal guy, then fired his useless butt in front of the judge,

walked out with a very small fine. I then got a 'court appearence bill' from the fired legal help.

I wrote back and said, 'I'm an old fashioned guy, i beleive, a hard days work gets a hard days pay.'

I sent him $20. he never wrote back!

Stand your ground. Its your life, show some pride..

stick it to em!

Edited May 12, 200719 yr by psi

lol....^ good one

The charge was failure to give way when entering the road from a road related area, 3 points, $105

what?

i once read this book called rainmaker.

I once hired I legal guy, then fired his useless butt in front of the judge,

walked out with a very small fine. I then got a 'court appearence bill' from the fired legal help.

I wrote back and said, 'I'm an old fashioned guy, i beleive, a hard days work gets a hard days pay.'

I sent him $20. he never wrote back!

that is awsome. Worthy of Sig status

what?

Exactly what it says.

Failure to give way when entering the road from a road related area.