Motoring Offence Solicitors — Protect Your Licence, Protect Your Livelihood
Facing a driving charge is stressful — points, a ban or a conviction can cost you your job, your insurance and your independence. Our motoring offence solicitors defend drivers across Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and the Thames Valley, from a first speeding notice to serious drink, drug and dangerous driving allegations. Free initial assessment and clear fixed fees for most motoring matters.
How we can help
Drink driving. Charged with driving over the limit or failing to provide a specimen? The penalties are severe — a minimum 12-month ban — but procedural defences and special-reasons arguments exist. Early advice matters.
Drug driving. Drug driving prosecutions rely on precise testing procedure. We scrutinise the stop, the testing process and the lab analysis — errors are more common than you'd think, including for prescribed medication cases.
Speeding offences & NIPs. From questioning the Notice of Intended Prosecution to challenging camera evidence and arguing against disqualification for excessive speed.
Totting up & exceptional hardship. On 9 points and facing 3 more? A 6-month totting-up ban isn't automatic — we regularly argue exceptional hardship to keep clients driving.
Dangerous & careless driving. The line between careless and dangerous driving decides whether you face points or prison. We fight to reduce the charge and the consequence.
Driving without insurance (IN10). Carries 6–8 points — but "special reasons" apply where you genuinely believed you were insured.
New drivers — the 6-point rule. Passed your test within 2 years? Six points revokes your licence automatically. Fighting the underlying charge is usually the only route.
Why choose J Scott & Co
- Local courts, local knowledge — Reading, Slough, High Wycombe, Aylesbury and Oxford Magistrates
- Free case assessment before you commit — we tell you honestly if we can help
- Fixed fees for most matters, agreed upfront
- Named solicitor, direct mobile access — not a call-centre queue
- Focused on the outcome that keeps you driving — special reasons, exceptional hardship, procedural challenges
When to call us — before the interview, not after
If you've been arrested or invited to a voluntary police interview about a driving matter, call us before the interview. What you say — or don't say — at that stage shapes everything that follows. Police station representation is free to you under the duty scheme (see our criminal defence page).
Areas we cover
We defend drivers in Maidenhead, Windsor, Slough, Reading, Bracknell, Wokingham, Marlow, High Wycombe, Beaconsfield and Henley, and appear at magistrates' and crown courts across the Thames Valley. Nationwide instructions accepted for serious matters.
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Fixed fees, named solicitor, 20+ years of experience. SRA regulated and CQS accredited.