You’ve had four pints over 3 hours with your friends at a Nanaimo pub and weigh 180 lbs. You’re not over the limit but you’re pulled over by the Mounties and made to blow. You blow in the breathalyzers and then it thinks and thinks and finally, after an agonizing wait, the readingcomes back as […]
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When you’re caught driving while prohibited, the police will usually issue you some papers, tow your vehicle and let you on your way. At that point, it doesn’t seem so bad. But then you get home, turn to the internet, and discover this is more serious than it initially seemed. Driving While Prohibited is one
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A lot of people who are concerned about getting a DUI are trying to comply with the law. They still want to have a nice night out with friends, but they want to know how many drinks they can have and still be safe to legally drive. Unfortunately, there is no clear answer to this
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The Superintendent of Motor Vehicles has published a new breathalyzer manual for the Alco-Sensor FST Approved Screening Device, i.e., the roadside breath tester used in British Columbia. This is the 5th version of the manual since this model of ASD was brought into service in January 2015. The lack of certain changes will come as
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It’s sometimes hard to believe that in a free and democratic society with a Charter of Rights that the police can detain you and interrogate you just because. The courts in Canada allow the police to pull you over without even a hint of having committed an offence. People are stopped on the street, detained
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When clients call us to ask what the punishments are in BC for domestic violence, it’s difficult to give an exact answer. The term “domestic violence” encompasses numerous offences a person could be charged with. Being convicted of a domestic violence offence in British Columbia carries a wide range of punishments. These punishments will all
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If you watch police drama shows like “The Wire” you have a pretty good idea of the concept of “good cop, bad cop” in police interrogations. It’s a psychological tactic used in negotiations and interrogations in which one police officer plays the role of the “good cop,” attempting to be sympathetic and understanding, while the
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In the last two years, we’ve noticed that the police in many jurisdictions seem to pull over Dodge Ram trucks more often than others for focused scrutiny concerning impaired driving. Dodge Ram drivers are asked to blow into Approved Screening Devices more often. Dodge Ram drivers seem to end up with 90-day driving prohibitions disproportionately.
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You can dispute it if you’ve received a notice of intent to prohibit. The first thing you need to know about that is that you only have 21 days from the date on the letter to make your submissions. This doesn’t mean that you can’t make submissions outside of the 21 days, but you run
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Receiving a notice of intent to prohibit doesn’t mean you will automatically be suspended, but it does mean you will have to take some action to ensure that you do not get suspended. When you receive a notice of intent to prohibit, it is just that, a notification that ICBC intends to prohibit you from
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A notice of intent to prohibit is a letter generated by ICBC or RoadSafety BC to inform you that it is their intention to suspend your license. Receiving a Notice of Intent to Prohibit does not guarantee that your license is going to be suspended, but it most likely will be. A notice of intent
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If you blew Fail on a police roadside breathalyzer and it made no sense on the basis of what you had to drink, it’s possible that you blew into a defective breathalyzer. It happens. Sometimes the breathalyzer, what we call an Approved Screening Device or simply “ASD,” has some catastrophic problem that causes it to
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