SERVICES · MOTORING OFFENCES & TRAFFIC PENALTIES
Points, penalties, and the paperwork that decides them.
Advice and documents for speeding, red lights, a notice asking who was driving, totting up and the parking, bus-lane and moving-traffic penalties that arrive by post. We prepare the written case; you sign it, submit it, and attend any hearing yourself. Fixed fee, agreed before we start.
TKJ Legal Services is a trading style of TKJ Global Media Ltd. We are not a law firm regulated by the SRA, and no one here practises as a solicitor. What that means for you.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
What we do here
- Reading the notice you have been sent and telling you what it actually requires, and by when
- Notices of intended prosecution — whether the fourteen-day rule in s 1 Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 was met
- Notices asking who was driving — the 28-day window under s 172 Road Traffic Act 1988, and the reasonable-diligence defence where you genuinely cannot say
- Totting up — where you stand against the twelve points in three years that brings a minimum six-month disqualification (s 35 Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988)
- Written pleas, mitigation and witness statements drafted for you to sign and submit in your own name, including Single Justice Procedure forms
- Exceptional hardship and special reasons arguments prepared, with the evidence bundle a court will expect to see
- Written representations and appeals against parking, bus-lane, box-junction and moving-traffic penalties, up to and including the appeal to the adjudicator
- Statutory declarations prepared under s 14 Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 where a case was decided without your knowledge
- Representations to DVLA on a medical revocation or a refusal to grant, and operator-licence compliance documents for a Traffic Commissioner public inquiry
Good to know
- Deadlines first. Several of these run from the day a letter was sent, not the day you opened it
- This is a documents and advice service. We do not attend hearings of any kind — and appearing before a court is reserved in any event (s 12(1)(a) Legal Services Act 2007)
- Most parking and bus-lane appeals are decided on the papers, so the written case is usually the whole case
- Everything we draft is yours, to sign and submit in your own name
HOW IT WORKS
Three steps, one fixed fee.
Send the letter and the dates
The notice, the envelope if you still have it, and when each thing arrived. Dates decide most of this.
Fixed-fee quote in writing
What we can do, what we cannot, the price and the turnaround. Nothing is billable until you say yes.
Documents you can use
The written case, ready for you to sign and send, with a note on what to expect if it goes further.
WHERE WE STOP
The line we don’t cross
This is a documents and advice service: we prepare what you file, and you file it. We do not attend hearings. Appearing before a court and conducting a case in someone else’s name are both reserved activities under the Legal Services Act 2007, and we are not an SRA-regulated firm. We also refer anything that carries a prison sentence — drink-drive, drug-drive, dangerous driving — to a regulated solicitor, because that is where the stakes justify one.
Not on this service
- Attending or speaking at any hearing — magistrates’ court, traffic tribunal or public inquiry
- Issuing an appeal or conducting a case in your name
- Drink-drive, drug-drive, dangerous driving, and anything else carrying a prison sentence
- Representing you at a DVLA licence appeal, which is heard in a magistrates’ court (s 100 Road Traffic Act 1988)
- Injury or compensation claims arising from a collision
QUESTIONS
Asked before, answered straight.
Can you represent me at a hearing?
No, and that is a line we have drawn rather than one we are working around. This is a documents and advice service: we prepare the written plea, the mitigation, the witness statements and the hardship evidence, and you sign and submit them in your own name. Appearing before and addressing a court is reserved to regulated lawyers by s 12(1)(a) of the Legal Services Act 2007, and we do not attend hearings in any other capacity either. If your case needs someone to stand up for you, it needs a solicitor or counsel, and we will tell you so.
What about a parking or bus-lane penalty?
Those are civil penalties rather than criminal offences, and they are decided by an adjudicator rather than by a court. Most appeals are determined on the papers, so the written case is usually the whole case — and that is the part we do. We prepare your representations to the enforcement authority and, if those are rejected, your appeal to the adjudicator. You submit it, and if you ask for an oral hearing you attend it yourself.
I have a notice asking who was driving. Can I leave it?
No, and this is the costliest mistake we see. Failing to give the information is a separate offence under s 172 of the Road Traffic Act 1988, and it usually carries more points than the speeding allegation behind it. Where the request comes by written notice you have 28 days from service to answer. There is a defence if you did not know and could not with reasonable diligence have found out, but it is narrow and it has to be evidenced. Send it to us before the window closes, not after.
I am on nine points. What happens if I get three more?
Twelve or more points inside three years engages s 35 of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988, and the court must disqualify you for at least six months unless it is satisfied there are grounds for mitigating the normal consequences — in practice, exceptional hardship. Hardship has to go beyond the inconvenience any driver would suffer, and the arguments that land are usually the ones where other people are affected. We prepare the statement and the evidence; you present it, and you should expect to give evidence on oath.
Can you deal with a drink-drive charge?
No, and we would rather say so on the first call than take your money. Drink-drive, drug-drive and dangerous driving carry the risk of imprisonment, and those are the cases where a regulated solicitor — with full professional indemnity cover and the right to stand up in court — is worth the fee. We will tell you that straight away and help you find one.
Tell us what you’re dealing with.
Booking a call costs nothing and commits you to nothing. If it needs work, you get a fixed-fee quote in writing.