We stand accused. In fact, we’re guilty. We were reminded the other day that the reason we have the IRP scheme is the drunk driving lawyer in BC. And we’re not just talking about any one of us in particular or the lawyers in our office per se, but the particular subspecies and members of […]
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We know the locations of the DUI roadblocks. It’s not that we spend our time listening to our police radio scanner, or that we follow the twitter account revealing the locations of roadblocks in BC. It’s just that we’ve read so many police reports from all around the province, and we keep a database including
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We get calls from nice people from all around the province to ask about DUI cases in BC, Immediate Roadside Prohibitions and criminal charges. Many people are well versed because they’ve read our site and visited our FAQ pages. As lawyers, and particularly as the leading IRP defence firm, we do our best to answer
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Ah, September. The time of year when children head back to school. In the Lower Mainland of BC in particular this is a special time of year as students head back to university. And many new university students move into the Lower Mainland from around the world. It’s a special time of year. You can
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Is there such a thing as a simple DUI case? Certainly some impaired driving cases are more straightforward than others. However, having successfully defended well over a thousand DUI cases over the years, we think that we can reliably say that, as you work on each file, virtually every drinking-driving case is complicated in some
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We’ve been so busy in the last few months that we’ve barely had a moment to lift our heads and take a look around. Aside from forcing the Government to abide by the law concerning the Interlock and RDP remedial requirements, we’ve got the IIP lifted for a huge number of clients and the RDP
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We regularly see standard police interrogation procedure that in our opinion would shock the good thinking people of Canada if they only knew about it. An Alberta court decision which provides a good example of standard police interrogation procedure has just made the news and it’s worth a read. See: R. v. Chapple, 2012 ABPC 229
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Although we spend a lot of time defending IRPs and driving prohibitions, we are in fact trial lawyers. Much of our work takes place in court. As criminal lawyers we often negotiate plea agreements to get the best result for our clients. When a plea bargain is not in the best interests of our client
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One question we are often asked is why we defend drunk driving cases. As lawyers we take on all sorts of different cases, from serious drug charges to personal injury cases, the occasional contract dispute and discipline proceedings when a professional is facing sanctions from a regulatory body. But more than anything we defend driving
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The best criminal lawyer Thank you again for following our blog. We try to ensure that the title of each blog post will make sense and make it easy to figure out what the topic is. Sometimes it’s hard to come up with a title. Today’s post, Best criminal lawyer & we are ensuring you
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We are criminal lawyers so our job is to advocate for our clients. This we normally do in a quiet manner, working behind the scene to get the best results attainable for our clients while protecting their privacy. And we do our job very well. What is unusual for us is to advocate in the
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As criminal lawyers we deal with a variety of criminal offences. Some of our clients are charged with violent offences, like assault. Many of our clients, however, are charged with a non-violent crime such as theft, break and enter, mischief and lying to ICBC. This is not surprising, considering 79% of crimes in 2010 were
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