Any person charged with an offence (committed on or after 13th April 2015) and brought before the Courts will face the prospect of having mandatory court costs imposed against them if convicted.
For many years it has been illegal to drive whilst unfit through drink or drugs. However, unlike the well established offence of driving over the prescribed alcohol limit, there was no set benchmark confirming a requisite quantity of a particular drug that must be present within the bloodstream. That is of course until now.
Nick Terry, drivingoffence.com comments upon the recent decision in relation to Solicitor Graham Jones' application for a full time judicial appointment.