Published 11 Dec 2011
Case Study - Traffic Lawyers Sydney and Parramatta Offices
Traffic Offence – Severe Breach of Mass Axle Overloading and Fail to Provide Container Weight Declaration – Truck Company – Guilty Plea - Sentencing Proceedings
Nyman Gibson Stewart
Criminal and Traffic Lawyers
Downing Centre Local Court
Represented by Solicitor: Kylie Anderson
Facts: Client was charged in two separate incidents of Severe Breach of Mass Axle (Overloading) and Failure to Provide Container Weight Declaration. In relation to the Breach of Mass Axle, it was the company’s second offence thereby considerably increasing the fines available to the court. The maximum amount our client could potentially be fined was $121,000.
Result: The plea in mitigation was focused on the intensive training that the company’s employees were required to undertake and noted that there had been only one other breach since the company started in 2005. His Honour took those matters into account before fining the company $5,500 for the two charges.
Kylie Anderson is based at our Darlinghurst office, and like all of our team of criminal law specialists and traffic law specialists, can be contacted 24/7.