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Expert Motoring Lawyers Receive Excellent Feedback

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Expert Motoring Lawyers Receive Excellent Feedback

 

Our team of expert motoring lawyers were delighted to today receive this public feedback from a satisfied client on our Facebook page.

 

We love receiving honest feedback from clients and it was a pleasure to support this client through his case.

 

The client says:

 

A massive thank you to all the team at Forrest Williams especially Steve, your customer care and can do attitude are amazing.  I can’t recommend you enough.

 

If you need expert motoring lawyers for any type of case, call our team now on 01623 397200.

 

Last Minute Legal Help For A Case Today

Julia Coffin of Forrest Williams

 

Last Minute Legal Help For A Case Today

 

We had a call last week from a gentleman who rang for some free initial advice regarding his motoring matter. He told me a story about an accident he’d had at speed on a dual carriageway.  He was due to appear before magistrates in relation to a charge of Driving Without Due Care and Attention.

 

In 90 minutes time.

 

He needed last minute legal help.

 

As the story unravelled it became apparent that not only was his court hearing in 90 minutes time, it wasn’t the first hearing, he had pleaded guilty by post at an earlier hearing and he was due to be sentenced.

 

I listened to his story and determined that he had two courses of action available to him – I could write him a letter of mitigation to take into the court with him to be taken into consideration by the magistrates during sentencing, or I could arrange for a Barrister to represent him at the hearing and present the mitigation in person. I explained to the caller that the manner of his driving could be considered as bordering on dangerous and therefore he was at real risk of being disqualified for this offence.

 

The caller was a professional man, embarrassed at having left it so late to do something about it, and also intimidated at the thought of attending court alone for the first time.  He had never been in trouble with the law before and had been burying his head in the sand, refusing to face it. He was terrified of the possibility of being disqualified from driving as he relied on his driving licence to carry out his business as a self-employed Health & Safety Advisor.

 

He instructed us to send a barrister and then the race was on.  We contacted the court and persuaded them to push the hearing back a couple of hours to give us some breathing space, and then managed to secure one of our barristers to attend the hearing with this new client.

 

We were able to avoid a driving ban for our client by persuading the magistrates to deal with the case by way of penalty points. 

 

Our client was massively relieved to have kept his driving licence, and the Forrest Williams team were delighted to have been able to help this client at such short notice.

 

If you are due to appear before court for any offence, don’t bury your head in the sand, talk to us and see how we can help. You will save yourself a lot of stress by talking to us early, we can literally help prevent sleepless nights.  But if you do need last minute legal help, it’s never too late. 

 

Lady Lawyers

We were amused to note this letter that was published in the Law Society Gazette back in 1984.

“Lady lawyers really are on the rampage.  What alarms me is the prospect of so many determined young women leaving their families to be run by others while they catch the train to the office.  No wonder there are so many broken homes.  Though I write to you, madam, it is to the beginner that my questions are really addressed – to the exquisite professional with the new briefcase in her first job.  What sort of wife and mother will she turn out to be, and what does the home help’s home help do with her children?”

As a team including five women, three of whom are mothers, we are proud to note how the legal world has welcomed ‘lady lawyers’, whose contributions we find priceless.

We do, however, realise that for men and women in this industry, the juggling role can be difficult.

We are committed as employers to assisting with that, by offering flexible working hours and unlimited holidays – regardless of gender.

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