Our client was a 17-year-old who had only had his licence for a matter of months when he was charged with drive in a manner dangerous, speed over 30km/h and negligent driving as a back-up. We negotiated with the prosecution to slim down the charges, and the prosecution dropped the speed over 30km/h charge, which meant that our client avoided a mandatory 3-month licence disqualification on top of any other penalty the court imposed. We persuaded the magistrate to deal with our client leniently, imposing a fine only and a period of disqualification close to the mandatory minimum and backdated to the time of the offence.