Kirkintilloch is a commuter town, and commuting is what makes a motoring charge expensive here. The A803 into Glasgow and the M80 south carry a heavy daily flow, the roads north into the Campsies are unlit and quick, and enforcement across East Dunbartonshire is steady. For most people the fine is an afterthought; the problem is the points, the premium and the possibility of a disqualification that removes the drive to work. Charles Ferguson Solicitors defend motoring charges throughout East Dunbartonshire from our Glasgow office at 20-23 Woodside Place, G3 7QL. Call 0141 345 5735 before you plead.
Glasgow Sheriff Court — Road Traffic Cases
Motoring prosecutions arising in Kirkintilloch are heard at Glasgow Sheriff Court and Justice of the Peace Court, 1 Carlton Place, Glasgow G5 9DA, in the Sheriffdom of Glasgow and Strathkelvin. Routine summary motoring business — speeding, careless driving, insurance and licence offences — is generally taken in the Justice of the Peace Court, while drink driving, dangerous driving and cases prosecuted on indictment call before a sheriff. Where a collision has caused a death, the charge of causing death by dangerous driving is prosecuted in the High Court of Justiciary, which sits in Glasgow at the Saltmarket. We appear across all of these courts.
Motoring Offences We Defend in Kirkintilloch
Drink Driving and Drug Driving — Scotland's limit of 50mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood is the lowest in the United Kingdom, and it convicts a great many drivers on the way to work the following morning. We examine Intoximeter calibration and maintenance records, the procedure followed at the police station, and whether the hip flask defence is open on the facts. Dangerous Driving — conviction brings disqualification for at least 12 months and a compulsory extended retest, so the distinction from careless driving is frequently the whole case. Careless Driving — a question of degree, and one that arises regularly on the unlit rural roads north of the town. Speeding — the A803, the A806, the A807, the A891 and the M80 are all routinely enforced, as are the roads running up towards the Campsie Fells; we check device type approval and calibration and whether a Notice of Intended Prosecution was served within 14 days. Totting Up and Exceptional Hardship — at 12 penalty points the court must disqualify for at least 6 months unless exceptional hardship is proved on evidence. Driving Without Insurance — 6 to 8 penalty points or discretionary disqualification. Mobile Phone Offences — 6 penalty points. Driving While Disqualified — a charge carrying a real risk of custody.
Commuting and Professional Standing
East Dunbartonshire has one of the highest concentrations of professional employment in Scotland, and that changes what a motoring conviction costs. Solicitors, accountants, teachers, doctors and nurses living in Kirkintilloch, Lenzie, Bearsden and Milngavie all work under regulators or employers that take their own view of a criminal conviction — and drink driving in particular. Alongside that sit the practical cases: trades running vans across the central belt, care staff covering rounds out to Twechar and Milton of Campsie where the bus service is thin, and drivers holding vocational entitlement who face a Traffic Commissioner referral on top of the court outcome. Whichever applies to you, it needs to be evidenced properly rather than asserted. Call 0141 345 5735 and ask about Legal Aid.
Areas Served Across East Dunbartonshire
We act for drivers charged anywhere in East Dunbartonshire, including Kirkintilloch, Lenzie, Waterside, Twechar, Milton of Campsie, Lennoxtown, Torrance, Bishopbriggs, Auchinairn, Bearsden and Milngavie. Charges commonly arise on the A803, the A806, the A807, the A891 and the M80. Call 0141 345 5735.