On Bail

Unlike many drink driving charges, all drug driving offences will involve a period of waiting on bail before you know if you will be charged or not. This is because once your blood or urine sample has been taken, it will have to be sent off to a laboratory for analysis and this process can take anything from a month to 8 weeks depending on the efficiency of the police and lab involved.

Rather than sit and wait for the police to confirm what they plan to do in several weeks from now, we strongly recommend you start the process of information gathering and instructing us to help you compile your own mitigation or defence case.

So many clients report feelings of immense relief to us when they make the decision to place their instructions with us. This is often before we have even done a great deal by way of any work. We suspect the psychological benefit of handing the problem over to us, the experts, enables you the client to let go of the anxiety you may have been battling up to that point.

For us, the benefits of being involved in a case at the early stages before charge are immense. We will almost always start by taking a detailed account from you and it is this that could prove to be key to an eventual verdict of NOT GUILTY. If you decide to “wait and see” if the police will charge you, you could be doing yourself a dis-service because your memory of events will fade over the time with the chronology of what happened and who said becoming far less clear if  you choose to wait.

We offer a fixed fee “standby” option to clients who wish to engage us whilst on bail. If you are eventually charged, you will be glad you put the time and effort into preparing your case at such an early stage.