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a Conference By
Telephone:
Call my office on 9225 8062
between 9AM and 5PM Monday to
Thursday. If the office is
unattended please leave a message.
If it is urgent you could try
sending an sms to 0416 088661.
By
Email: Request
a conference online.
We will call you during
business hours or
email you
to arrange a suitable date
and time. When
should you book a
conference? You
need to book a conference
immediately if: •
you
have a court date pending,
or At
a conference your case can be
examined and expert legal advice
will be provided. You will find
out how it is possible to win your
case, what the costs are likely to
be, and what sort of time frame
you should expect. If the case is
not likely to win, you will be
advised of that at the conference
or once your case has been fully
investigated. Conferences
cost $300 to $400 depending on the
urgency. Your case will be
investigated to find out if it is
worthwhile defending your case or
adopting some other strategy. If
your case has merit, you can then
decide whether it is worth taking
the matter further. You will need
to bring to the conference all
paperwork you have that is
relevant to your problem. If you
have a demerit point problem you
need to bring a print-out of your
recent demerit point history that
is obtainable from VicRoads. If
you have received an
infringement notice and you
are seeking advice prior to
lodging the election to go
to court please be aware
that you will need to have a
second conference after you
receive the charge and
summons. Often people
lodge
an election to go to court
and then have their first
conference after they have a
charge and summons. If
you can not get to Melbourne. If
you don't live in Melbourne or can
not find time to come and see me,
then you should send all of your
paperwork to my postal
address
in an overnight express post
envelope, together with payment
of $300.00
which is the minimum fee I charge
for opening a file. Include a
contact telephone number and I
will be in touch with you within a
few days to discuss your
case. Alternatively, you can
make an appointment for a
telephone conference and email the
paperwork to me. What
to bring. Bring all the paperwork you have
that is relevant to your problem
especially the charge and summons or
any other papers that the police
have given you. Please do not
request any papers from the police.
Just bring what they have given you. For demerit point problems - bring
a copy of you full demerit point
history (which you can get from VicRoads)
as well as copies of all old
infringement notices that you still
have and any correspondence from
VicRoads. For outstanding fines or warrants -
you need to obtain a list of "All
Outstanding Enforcement Orders and
Warrants" from Civic Compliance at
277 William Street. They are open
until 6PM so you can visit them
prior to coming to see me. The list
of warrants you have printed off the
Internet or which has been sent to
you by post by the sheriff is not
good enough. Conference
hours and cost: Conferences
last one hour and are held at 4PM
or 5PM on weekdays, which cost
$300.00. Urgent conferences can be
held at other times subject to
availability and will cost
$350.00. Usually conferences are
not available during court hours.
What
sort of payment is acceptable? Where
are you located? Level
9, 555 Lonsdale St. Melbourne. [Map] Parking:
there is 2 hour parking in the
vicinity of Flagstaff Gardens and
in Little Lonsdale St. After 3PM,
there is unlimited off-street
parking for $5.00 at the Royal
Mint car park, rear of 280 William
St (between Latrobe St and Little
Lonsdale St). There is 1P and 2P
meter parking in Lonsdale St, 2P
in the vicinity of Flagstaff
Gardens, and numerous commercial
carparks in the area that charge
nearly as much as I do. How
to contact me: You
can request a conference online.
We will soon contact you to
arrange a suitable time and date.
Secretary: 9225
8062. 9:00AM to 5:00PM
Monday to Thursday. To
get free legal advice you can
send me an email.
All other requests for
free legal advice or opinions
will be ignored.
Frequently
Asked questions
about
conferences. Can
you give me some free
advice? Yes
I can. I
provide free
advice by
email.
Most generic
questions are
already
answered on my
website. The
rest of
my free time is spent
answering your questions for
free on the
TrafficLaw forum.
I
never provide free telephone
advice so please
don't waste your time phoning
me "to ask a simple question".
If it is such a simple
question it is probably
already answered on my
website, or you can use the
free and simple email service
I provide, or telephone any of
the other lawyers who claim to
be traffic law experts.
Complicated issues usually
require a conference.
How
can I email
documents to
you? If
you can not
attend a
conference in
person you can
arrange a
telephone
conference in
which case you
will need to
fax or email
your
paperwork.
Please call us
on
9225 8062 to
arrange a
suitable time
and to pay the
applicable conference
fee.
We will give you the appropriate
email address for sending
paperwork.
I will call you to have a
telephone conference after I have
read the papers.
If you are
coming to see
me in person
please bring
the documents
with you
instead of
emailing them
to me.
Unfortunately
I do not have
time to read
unsolicited
documents,
so I will
not download,
open or read
any
attachments
emailed or
faxed to me by
people who
have not paid
the relevant
fee for that
work. My
public email
addresses do
not accept
attachments. I
have received a traffic
infringement notice. Should I
come and see you? You
can come and see me at any stage
of your case. I can check the
validity of the infringement
notice and give you advice if the
notice is invalid. If you have a
demerit points problem you should
come and see me as soon as
possible. For licence loss
infringements it is usually
inevitable that you will need to
lodge an objection and take the
case to court if you want to save
your licence. After you get
your court papers you will then
need to book a further
conference so I can open a file to
investigate the court case. Many
people lodge an objection to the
infringement notice and then make
their first appointment to see me
after they receive the court
papers. The process for objecting
to an infringement notice is
explained here.
If
you have already objected to
a fine and are waiting to
receive the charge and
summons there is usually no
point in seeing a lawyer
until you have the charges. I
had an incident last night and I
am freaking out about it. Should
I come and see you? You can come and
see me at any stage of your case,
but there is not much a lawyer can
do if you have not yet been
charged with anything. One option
is to wait for the police to serve
you with a charge and summons and
then make an appointment to see me
when you have your court papers.
If you have been given any
paperwork that affects your right
to drive (such as a Notice of
Immediate Suspension under s.51,
or a VicRoads notice of
suspension) then you should book a
conference immediately. My
first court date is in 3 weeks
time so I need to see you
urgently. You probably
don't need to see me urgently. You
need to see me before the court
date stated in your summons - even
one day before is fine. You do not
need to attend court on the date
stated in the summons unless you
are on bail. Your case can never
be heard on the first mention
date. Most
court cases are heard many months
after the first mention date. This
is all explained in the court
papers and also on
my website. . . . |
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