Our client was found by police in a car soon after it had crashed into a ditch. She had the car keys in her pocket. She was over the drink drive alcohol limit. We represented her at the police station and advised her to exercise her right of silence in the police interview.

At court, we advised her to plead not guilty.  We conducted a trial without our client even having to attend court (she had been summoned to court rather than being bailed). We successfully argued that the court could not draw any adverse inferences from her silence in interview or her choice not to attend and give evidence at the trial.

We pursuaded the court that there was insufficient evidence that she had driven the car and she was found not guilty.