• Drink Driving
• Driving While Disqualified
• Dangerous Driving
• Careless Driving
• Sustained Loss of Traction (Burnouts)
• Some of the above offences carry a mandatory (compulsory) loss of your driver’s licence. If you have been charged with one (or more!) of the above offences call Holdaway Law for advice on the various ways of dealing with your case, be it defending the case if practical or mitigating the offence and making applications that can possibly keep you on the road.

Limited Licences / Work Licences

If you have already been suspended or disqualified or are about to be suspended or disqualified Holdaway Law can help you apply for a Limited Licence sometimes called a Work Licence, provided that you qualify for one. There are criteria you must meet before an application can be made. Call us to discuss your situation.

If you do qualify for a Limited Licence then we can draft and file the application and most importantly provide representation in Court when the application is heard by the Judge. There are online services that offer to do Limited Licence applications but they do not follow up by appearing on your behalf in Court. If the Judge takes issue with the application at the hearing, an applicant will be left trying to explain themselves in Court which can be daunting. The application could be refused and you may be left having to start again.

A Limited Licence is a privilege, not a right. If you need to apply for a Limited Licence it pays to do it once and do it right.

The team at Holdaway Law bring a wealth of local knowledge and years of experience in negotiating limited licences with reasonable terms that will alleviate the hardship that losing your licence may bring.

If you do not qualify for a Limited Licence, you may qualify under section 94 of the Land Transport Act 1998 to keep your licence. In place of a further disqualification, a person will have to undertake a community based sentence such as some community work hours. 

We often make s94 applications in situations where a person is already suspended or disqualified and they have made the mistake of driving again. The purpose of section 94 is to alleviate hardship and keep peoples lives moving forward. 

Instead of being disqualified for a further six months or a year or more, a s94 application will allow the person to keep driving once the original disqualification has expired. Disqualifications and further disqualifications can send people lives reeling backwards due to job loss and the inability to find employment. 

If you have lost your licence two or more times previously for the same type of offence and you have been charged again, then you will definitely need legal advice. The Court takes repeat-offending seriously and there are serious consequences.