Legal Eye

At Motoring Defence Solicitors, we receive countless enquiries about speeding and the associated penalties. Many believe that speeding offences can always be dealt with outside of court, so when a summons arrives through the letterbox, they have questions. The aim of this guide is to ensure that whatever speeding offence you may have committed, you […]

Failing to identify driver

Q I am being prosecuted for failure to identify the driver at the time of an alleged speeding offence. On the day in question, my wife and I were driving from London to catch a ferry to the continent for a holiday. We were away for six weeks and on our return I found that a […]

Shocking battery prices!

Hello Doctor Diesel,  I have a friend who has been driving a CitroÎn C-Zero for the last two and a half years. Recently, after heavy rain, she went through a very large puddle which has rendered her car useless. It is a write-off, as a new battery is £11,000! Surely if electric cars are the […]

Warning of intended prosecution

Question I have been served with a magistrates’ court requisition for speeding, but I have not prior to this received a notice of intended prosecution. I was stopped by the police at the time (about three months ago), although there was no accident or anything of that kind. All they told me is that I […]

Crossing the line

Another query answered by our legal expert