Archive: Criminal Defence

A volunteer riding for the Devon Freewheelers (DFW), represented at court by barrister Harry Bowyer, was stopped by an Officer of the Devon and Cornwall Police whilst transporting surgical instruments urgently required by the Nuffield Hospital. He was charged with speeding and riding a vehicle fitted with sirens. The Officer […]

This agency driver was under investigation by the DVSA (VOSA) for suspected tachograph offences. The allegation was that the truck had been driven without a tachograph card being used. The driver had been called to attend an interview under caution with the DVSA. The driver was able to satisfy the […]

SBC represented an HGV driver involved in a three-vehicle motorway collision. The police decided to interview the driver under caution on suspicion of dangerous driving. SBC was able to get access to the CCTV footage of the incident prior to the police interview and advise the HGV driver accordingly. A […]

The driver of an oversized load, represented at the Magistrates’ Court by barrister Helen Newbold, had been charged with careless driving, failing to stop and failing to report following an accident with a vehicle on a dual carriageway. The driver thought that he had suffered a tyre blow out on […]

An HGV driver was summonsed to the Magistrates Court after a police officer alleged that he had been seen using a mobile phone behind the wheel. The HGV driver denied the offence and instructed Smith Bowyer Clarke Road Transport Lawyers to defend him at trial. If found guilty he would […]

Barrister, Helen Newbold, appeared in the Magistrates’ Court representing a company facing unlimited fine for a serious overloading offence committed by one of its drivers.  A DVSA traffic examiner told the court that this was one of the worst overloading offences he had witnessed. Helen Newbold defined the nature and […]

Barrister Helen Newbold represented this HGV driver in the Magistrates’ Court where he faced charges relating to using two driver cards. Both cards were in the name of the driver and he acknowledged that he knew he had used both of the cards to extend his daily driving hours on […]

This HGV driver, represented by barrister Helen Newbold, had been summonsed to the Magistrates’ Court charged with 9 driver’s hours offences.   Helen Newbold was able to negotiate with the Prosecution to reduce the number of charges to 4, fewer than half those initially charged.  The HGV driver had admitted the […]

This haulier, represented by SBC, had been summonsed to the Magistrates Court for operating goods vehicles without an operator’s licence. In mitigation we were able to show that the haulier did in fact have a goods vehicle operator’s licence, but not for the Traffic Area in which the vehicle had […]

This lorry driver had been involved in a road traffic collision on a major UK motorway. Whilst driving his HGV, he had failed to notice another car which had merged on to the motorway into his blindspot. This resulted in a collision between the two vehicles, and the prosecution of […]