Driving offences

• Case Summary: Insurance Australia Limited (trading as NRMA) v James Hulse [2024] NSWSC 142

  23rd May 2024

  Someone is seriously injured in a motor vehicle accident, then charged with a serious driving offence which is subsequently dismissed. In this case summary, Tim Concannon examines the implications on motor accident statutory benefits of being charged with a serious driving offence. 

• Proposed drug driving law unfair and not supported by science

  8th Sep 2021

  Proposed new drug driving laws in SA are not fair to drivers who can lose their license for taking prescribed cannabis with no evidence of impaired driving, says the Australian Lawyers Alliance (ALA).

• Medicinal cannabis driving bill removes injustice

  3rd Feb 2021

  Current drug driving laws are not fair to drivers who can lose their license for taking prescribed cannabis when there is no evidence of impaired driving, says the Australian Lawyers Alliance (ALA) in response to the Road Traffic (Medicinal Cannabis) Amendment
  Bill 2021 being introduced into parliament in South Australia today. 

• Fines for South Australian driving offences jump by up to 500%

  22nd Aug 2019

  Danielle Harris discusses the drastic increases in fines for driving offences in South Australia and questions whether the impetus for these changes is to raise revenue to address the budgetary dilemma currently facing the South Australian Government.