References – What Should be Included

Written references are a valuable way of giving the judge or magistrate presiding over your case another view of your character and, hopefully, a mechanism for lessening the severity of any penalties you might be given. About a page long, a reference should be typed...

Random Breath Test – The Procedure

At any time of the day and on any road in the country, police can pull you over for whatever reason – a broken headlight, failing to give way correctly – and ask you to take a breath test. At this point, the police ask you if you have been drinking and when it was...

Drink Driving and the ‘Mellanby Effect’

With every drink of alcohol you consume the blood alcohol level in your bloodstream increases. You may not notice it, but there is a significant difference in the way the alcohol effects your behaviour and, how you feel, depending on whether you are still drinking and...