Criminal Charges, Drink Driving, Drug and Traffic Cases

Court Applications

• Discharge Without Conviction Applications under Section 106 of the Sentencing Act 2002 to avoid a criminal conviction.
• Section 99 Land Transport Act 1998 Applications to reduce disqualification periods.
• Name suppression.
• Pre Trial Applications on admissibility of evidence.
• Non Disqualification on driving offences on the basis of Special Reasons (Section 81 of Land Transport Act 1998).
• Community based sentence instead of disqualification on driving offences (Section 94 of Land Transport Act 1998).
• Applications under Section 129(4) of the Sentencing Act 2002 that vehicle not be confiscated on sentence due to hardship.
• Application for a Stay of Proceedings to apply to get charges dismissed.
• Responding to Crown Applications for suspect compulsion order under the Criminal Investigations (Bodily Samples) Act 1995.
• Parole Board Applications for early release on parole.
• Section 107 Parole Act 2002 Applications before the Parole Board where the Corrections Department has made application to keep an offender in prison for the full sentence.
• All other criminal law matters.