How can I exclude driving record from trial?
I have a traffic infringement notice that I wish to take to court.
Because of the amount of time I spend on the road and over my 35 year driving history, I have accrued a number of speeding fines, most when I was not speeding. However, I was not in a position to take time off to pursue them in court and it would have been difficult to prove my innocence as required under strict liability.
In addition, I have 2 other non speed related traffic issues.
None of these are related to the matter that I am taking to traffic law court.
I understand that prior history cannot be used to convict a person and in my opinion it is completely irrelevant.
However, I have just watched a number of people at court where the magistrate seemed to base her entire judgement on the person's driving record, If they had a clean record then they maintained that clean record. If they had a bad driving record the fine was upheld.
So my question is how to exclude the driving record?
I have a traffic infringement notice that I wish to take to court.
Because of the amount of time I spend on the road and over my 35 year driving history, I have accrued a number of speeding fines, most when I was not speeding. However, I was not in a position to take time off to pursue them in court and it would have been difficult to prove my innocence as required under strict liability.
In addition, I have 2 other non speed related traffic issues.
None of these are related to the matter that I am taking to traffic law court.
I understand that prior history cannot be used to convict a person and in my opinion it is completely irrelevant.
However, I have just watched a number of people at court where the magistrate seemed to base her entire judgement on the person's driving record, If they had a clean record then they maintained that clean record. If they had a bad driving record the fine was upheld.
So my question is how to exclude the driving record?