Fees – Motoring Offences

(Provision for advice and representation at Magistrates Court in relation to summary only Road Traffic Act offences dealt with at a Single Hearing)

Our Team

Our team is made up of four senior solicitors (each with over 20 years post qualification experience). The team is supervised by Robert Castle (Partner/Member) who has 29 years post qualification experience working in criminal law.

Legal Fees

The Legal Fees will range from £500.00-£1,500.00 (including VAT) for matters dealt with at Blackpool Magistrates Court on a single day.

The basis for the legal fees are:

  1. Hourly Rate between £175.00-£210.00 plus VAT per hour
    2. Fee range:
    • Simple speeding or other non-imprisonable motoring offence (not including exceptional hardship or special reasons); £300.00 (including VAT)
    • Simple excess alcohol/drug driving; failing to provide a specimen; failure to stop/failure to report; imprisonable offence; Fixed Fee £600.00 (including VAT)
    • Cases involving exceptional hardship, special reasons, Newton Hearing, triable issues range between £300.00 to £1,200.00 (including VAT)

The Fee includes:

  1. Initial telephone conference
  2. Face-to Face conference
  3. Preparation of Prosecution Papers
  4. Preparation of Defence Papers
  5. Collating information, documents, plans etc
  6. Advising upon plea, your evidence and likely outcome
  7. Attending at Court for Hearing x1, to include conference at Court, conduct of case and report thereafter.

The Fee does not include:

  1. Work, advice and representation that goes beyond that stage and above, to be discussed in detail with client;
  2. Second or subsequent adjourned Hearings to be charged separately on pro rata basis;
  3. Travel or attendance at Locus in quo, attendance at out of town Court, travel to client’s address, other work not stated;

Disbursements

Disbursements are additional costs related to your matter that are payable to third parties. The likely disbursements are:

  1. Mileage £0.45 plus VAT at 20%
  2. Parking Costs at Court (no VAT)
  3. Expert’s reports between £250.00 to £1,000.00 plus VAT at 20% depending on work. For example back calculation, forensic evidence, plans, locus in quo, drug examination, personal examination depending upon case.
  4. Expert attendance at Court on pro rata basis depending on case.

All fees are dependent upon payments on account as per our schedule.

We have outlined an estimate of costs above. If you wish to discuss your case then please contact us and we will be able to provide a specific costs estimate for your matter. If you decide to instruct us then full costs information will be given at the beginning of your matter.