Defending Drivers Nationwide

We understand that your driving licence is often an essential part of your life. For many of our clients, their employment and family life depends on being able to drive.

Cunninghams provide a specialist defence service throughout the country, including Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham and London, with experts who are dedicated to defending drivers charged with all motoring offences, including drink driving, speeding, insurance offences and those facing a driving ban due to amounting 12 points on the licence.

With increasing use of technology by the police, it is now easier to be accused of a road traffic offence than ever before. However, many people who contact us feel that they have been wrongly accused. With the above in mind, Cunninghams provide an efficient, specialised and friendly service aimed at guiding you through every stage of a road traffic prosecution.

Representation for Driving Offences

If you have been charged with driving offences and are due to appear in court, it may be in your interest to hire a motoring lawyer who specialises in motoring offences. Motoring solicitors can best represent you and help to provide a thorough explanation of why you have broken the law, any mitigating circumstances involved and can carefully review the evidence against you.

Driving offences can cause risk to public safety, and as a result, the penalties can be quite significant and can lead to points on a licence, disqualification of a licence, a hefty fine and possible imprisonment.

Dangerous and Careless Driving

Particularly serious motoring offences include dangerous and careless driving, as speeding offences can result in injury to yourself or another and can cause damage to public property. If you are charged with motoring offences such as these, it may be best to seek representation from a motoring solicitor. If convicted, a mandatory twelve month driving disqualification is given and if the motoring offences are serious, it can result in a custodial sentence. It is vital you have the appropriate defence with a motoring lawyer who is an expert in dealing with driving offences on a daily basis. Motoring lawyers’ can appeal to the court for a reduced sentence or to reduce the severity of the alleged speeding offence.

Drink Driving

Drink driving is considered one of the biggest traffic offences, as this traffic offence can kill and poses a serious threat on the roads. Anyone charged with drink driving motoring offences will be subjected to a court appearance where they could face licence disqualification for twelve months, a hefty fine and, in the result of a seriously injured party, possible imprisonment of up to fourteen years. By hiring the services of a motoring solicitor they will attempt to ensure the suspected offender receives the most lenient sentence possible. Also, we can appeal to the court that there were mitigating circumstances due to the any medical conditions which may have elevated alcohol in the blood stream.

Speeding Offences

For those of you who have gone slightly over the speeding limit it can be infuriating to find you may have accumulated twelve points on a driving licence for marginal speeding offences. By hiring a motoring lawyer they can dispute your speeding offence and can attempt to avoid disqualification. We also assess the use of road signs where the alleged offence had occurred, and if misplaced, we can use this as evidence to support your case.

Mobile Telephone Motoring Offences

One of the most common traffic offences is driving whilst talking on a mobile phone or similar device, and can result in a £1,000 to £2,500 fine and three penalty points. The only exception for a driver using a mobile handset in a moving vehicle is in the case of emergency when they are telephoning the emergency services. If you believe you can refute the claims made against you or you simply want representation in the event of a court appearance, you should be sure to hire the services of our motoring solicitors here at Cunningham’s Solicitors.

Insurance Offences

If you are caught driving a vehicle without at least third party only insurance, you can ultimately have your licence disqualified, have six to eight points added to your licence, be subjected to a fine of up to five-thousand pounds, and you may have to retake your driving test. However, our motoring lawyers can help argue your case if you were under the impression your vehicle was insured, or if you only used your uninsured vehicle in an emergency situation.

Appealing a Motoring Conviction

If you have recently been convicted of motoring offences then you may want to appeal the magistrate’s decision. If this is the case, we can review your previous case with your prior defence solicitor and possibly approach the case differently.

Hiring Professional Motoring Solicitors

Here at Cunningham’s Solicitors our motoring solicitors will attempt to provide you with the best possible case to present to the magistrates. If you have been charged with driving offences and believe you have been wrongly accused, or maybe you just wish to hire legal motor offence representation, you should be sure to hire our motoring lawyers as we are specialists in this area. After our initial consultation, we will thoroughly review your case and advise you on how to appeal the accusations.

If you would like to discuss your driving offences case, you can rest assured when you hire us for your traffic offences cases that you will be represented by the best motoring solicitors who have twenty years experience in road traffic law.