Drink Driving Urine Case Started Then Dropped

Our client was accused of drink-driving following a crash and submitted to a urine test at hospital.

This case should be used as a cautionary tale for the Procurator Fiscal Service, and as an exemplar of how to successfully defend such allegations.

Our Mr Simpson was responsible for defending this case. Having reviewed all of the evidence in the case, it became immediately apparent that the Police had departed so far from any known or accepted statutory procedure that there was ZERO prospect of a conviction following.

On each occasion upon which the matter called in Court, Mr Simpson made it abundantly and repeatedly clear that the prosecution was doomed to fail.

The Crown, taking at best a 'hopeful stance', proceeded to Trial ruining an entire Tuesday of Mr Simpson's life. The case did not finish on that occasion and was continued to a new date a few weeks later. 

The day before the Trial was due to recommence, Mr Simpson received an email (but not an apology) advising that the Crown had elected to take 'no further action'. 

That was an end to matters which frankly ought never to have commenced.

 Kept Licence!