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07-05-2003, 07:40am
G'day,
There are no doubt more learned people out there, but from my experience (in NSW) I would say cop it on the chin and do not go to court.
Some years ago I was reduced to the 12 month probationary licence, thought I stood a chance of a successful challenge in Court for various reasons (and still consider I had a worthwhile circumstance and case to plead), wasted a day worth of income, was reduced to an ineffective ignorant bubble by an aggressive magistrate (what happened to independence and lack of bias?), even to the point where the RTA solicitor (who is the enemy) asked me some questions to allow me to put myself in a better light, thought I was going to lose my licence altogether and get a bigger fine and maybe do time (the magistrate was THAT aggressive and adversarial) and at the end of the day I still had a probationary licence for 12 months. And less naivety :-)
To go to the trouble of booking you like that for only 20 kliks over...well I reckon they were hard up for a victim.
Kevin
There are no doubt more learned people out there, but from my experience (in NSW) I would say cop it on the chin and do not go to court.
Some years ago I was reduced to the 12 month probationary licence, thought I stood a chance of a successful challenge in Court for various reasons (and still consider I had a worthwhile circumstance and case to plead), wasted a day worth of income, was reduced to an ineffective ignorant bubble by an aggressive magistrate (what happened to independence and lack of bias?), even to the point where the RTA solicitor (who is the enemy) asked me some questions to allow me to put myself in a better light, thought I was going to lose my licence altogether and get a bigger fine and maybe do time (the magistrate was THAT aggressive and adversarial) and at the end of the day I still had a probationary licence for 12 months. And less naivety :-)
To go to the trouble of booking you like that for only 20 kliks over...well I reckon they were hard up for a victim.
Kevin