Drink Driving Solicitors Qld is a specialist division of Caldwell Solicitors that services clients facing traffic offences.Traffic offending can have a major impact on your life, family and ability to earn an income.If you are an eligible person, you can make an application for a Special Hardship Order if your licence has been suspended because of:- 2 or more demerit points were gained under an agreement to be of good driving behaviour for 1 year;- an offence of driving more than 40km/h over the speed limit;- an offence of driving more than 40km/h over the speed limit and because of that offence you gained 2 or more demerit points when under an agreement to be of good driving behaviour for 1 year.Drink Driving Solicitors Qld will assist in preparation of material as well as having Cameron Caldwell appear on your behalf in Court for the hearing for your application.A fixed fee of $990 including GST is offered for Special Hardship Applications.Cameron Caldwell is a Court specialist...
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Drink Driving Solicitors Qld is a specialist division of Caldwell Solicitors that assists clients with traffic offences, predominantly drink driving.Drink Driving Solicitors Qld watched the channel 9 news story on Monday 7 February 2011 about section 87 restricted licences (“work licence”) applications with interest.What channel 9 didn’t say was that to successfully apply for a work licence, the Court must determine whether:You are a fit and proper person to hold a restricted licence as adjudged by the Court

Refusal would cause extreme hardship to you and/or your family by depriving them of their livelihood
There has been no suspension or cancellation in the previous 5 years
Your BAC was less than .15%
You hold an open or provisional QLD licence
The offence did not involve a work related activity
You have no previous conviction for any drink driving or dangerous operation in the last 5 years

The thrust of the channel 9 story was that it is a...
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Caldwell Solicitors ( www.caldwellsolicitors.com.au ) was established in March 2006, with the first office located at Hope Island. The Hope Island office has developed a strong position servicing the northern Gold Coast since that time, to be the leading conveyancing, Family Law and estate practice in the northern suburbs.The growth areas of Hope Island, Helensvale, Pacific Pines, Oyster Cove, Monterey Keys, Coomera, Coomera Waters, Oxenford and Pimpama are all serviced by the Hope Island office, together with the established suburbs of Southport, Labrador, Arundel, Runaway Bay, Hollywell and Paradise Point.In July 2008 Caldwell Solicitors expanded operations to Robina in an effort to ensure we could service all Gold Coast suburbs comfortably. The Robina office services clients from the beaches in the east, to the hinterland in the west and everywhere in between.Palm Beach, Elanora, Mudgeeraba, Robina, Varsity, Mermaid Waters, Broadbeach are just some of the many and varying...
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Drink Drivers in Queensland are being targeted with tougher new laws in an effort to reduce the states road toll.
The Queensland Government has announced Drink-drivers will have their licences automatically suspended sooner under new laws to begin in Queensland in mid 2011.
The new reforms were announced yesterday and include automatic licence suspension for those caught on our roads with a reading of 0.1 per cent blood alcohol content or higher.
The limit for an automatic suspension is currently 0.15 per cent. In practical terms, this means that an offender would not be able to drive from the time of the
Ms Bligh announced the changes on the same day alcohol interlocks became mandatory for serious drink-driving offenders in Queensland.
The laws require in-car breath tests to be fitted to the cars of first-time drink-drivers caught with a blood alcohol reading of more than 0.15 per cent and those who have been caught twice in five years.
Alcohol interlocks connect to the...
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Over the years this week has become affectionately known as “Schoolies Week” here on the Gold Coast.
 
So, it’s the first couple of nights down, and we will tell you now what you may already have seen… the police will be out in force. Be on your best behaviour.
 
Fast forward to next Monday morning when your head is foggy and the common sense and clarity of last week is a distant memory, you may wake to realise what you have done. Or worse, you’re a parent reading this blog and the harsh reality of what your child has done has come home to roost.
                          
You got caught drink driving – you won’t be the only one.
 
From a public safety perspective, we would much prefer that drink driving did not occur, but the reality is that it does. This week will be no...
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