Guiding you through motoring offences

For many charged with a motoring offence, it’s their first encounter with the criminal justice system. Our Motoring Offence Solicitors understand this and will immediately step in to protect your best interests and build a defence.

We recognise the stress and anxiety, especially if your job relies on your licence. Our goal is to ease your concerns and ensure you have the best motoring law defence team in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.

We are a diverse, multi-lingual law firm using best-in-class technology to provide streamlined, modern, and highly effective motoring law advice and representation. Our solicitors have years of experience in motoring and criminal law, with connections to some of the UK’s best Barristers and King’s Counsel. Our clients also benefit from our ability to instruct the country’s most respected expert witnesses to support a not-guilty plea or mitigate sentences handed down by a Judge.

We advise and represent clients across Nottingham, Kenilworth, Arnold, Hucknall, Derby, the East Midlands, and the UK on various motoring offences, including:

• Driving without insurance
• Speeding
• Drink and drug driving
• Careless driving causing death

Our specialist solicitors help you avoid a ban, obtain the least possible penalty points, and seek to persuade prosecutors to withdraw proceedings.

Common Questions About Motoring Offences

What is a Fixed Penalty Notice?

Minor traffic offences, such as speeding, are usually handled via a Fixed Penalty Notice (FPN) rather than through the Magistrates’ Court. An FPN can be issued on the spot by the police or sent through the post. Paying the FPN avoids prosecution, but if you believe it was wrongly issued, we can represent you in Court.

What types of sentences apply to road traffic offences?

Sentences for motoring offences can include:

• Penalty points on your licence
• Disqualification from driving
• Community service
• Fines
• Prison sentences
• Compensation orders

Is road rage a specific offence?

While there is no specific offence for road rage, actions taken during such incidents can lead to charges like careless or dangerous driving, assault, or battery.

The Court of Appeal in R. v Howells (Frank Thomas) [2002] EWCA Crim 1608 outlined sentencing for road rage involving dangerous driving without resulting accidents or injuries, setting the appropriate range between 6 and 12 months.

Why Choose Us?

Whether facing a drink driving charge or the threat of penalty points for using a mobile phone while driving, our specialist solicitors guide you every step of the way. We regularly defend clients at police stations and in the Magistrates’ and Crown Courts, assist with appeals against disqualification, and applications for early reinstatement of your licence.

We may be able to secure legal aid for you. Where legal aid is not available, our fees are reasonable and transparent, often offered as fixed fees to alleviate concerns about legal costs.

Regardless of the charges, you are entitled to a defence. We do not judge our clients; our goal is to defend you against the prosecution’s allegations. Instructing us improves your chances of acquittal or reduced sentencing. It is crucial to contact us as soon as you become aware of the charges.

Smalleys Solicitors provides exceptional Motoring Offences and Motoring Offences services to clients. People choose and recommend us not just in Nottingham, Arnold, Hucknall, Derby and Mansfield, but across Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire & the East Midlands, and the whole of the UK, because we get results.

To receive expert advice and representation regarding Motoring Offences and Motoring Offences, please contact us using the form below, call us on (0115) 955 6555, email via the Request a Callback form on this contact page.