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Hornsby Court Drink Driving Lawyers - Repeat DUI Offender

By Joshua Boorman · Published · NSW posts

In shortEpisode 31 of the Boorman Lawyers Court Reports show, we take a look at a low range drink driving offence at Hornsby Local Court. It was our client’s third offence. We recently appeared at Hornsby Local Court up in North Sydney on a Low Range PCA offence. The client had a blood alcohol rating of 0.053, very low rating.

  • Facts of the Low Range DUI
  • Previous drink driving offences
  • Case preparation

New South Wales law · law checked 21 Oct 2026

What's on this page

Episode 31 of the Boorman Lawyers Court Reports show, we take a look at a low range drink driving offence at Hornsby Local Court. It was our client’s third offence.

We recently appeared at Hornsby Local Court up in North Sydney on a Low Range PCA offence.

Facts of the Low Range DUI

The client had a blood alcohol rating of 0.053, very low rating. It was classed as a next day type of offence, he’d had some drinks the night before and he’d woken up early and unexpectedly been called into work on a Saturday and had a full night sleep. He got up in the morning. He thought he was fine to drive. He was pulled over for a random breath test, but unfortunately, was just over the limit.

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Hornsby Court Drink Driving Lawyers - Repeat DUI Offender

Previous drink driving offences

The problems that did occur in this situation was that my client had some poor prior form.

It was his third drink driving offence with the last being quite a serious one, higher range with the crash 8 years ago. Then before that, there was a special range drink driving offence about 10 years ago. Obviously, that showed that there was a bit of prior offending there for our client.

We were pushing for conditional release order due to the objective seriousness being quite low for this offence. But the Magistrate understandably couldn’t really look passed for the fact that it was his third drink driving on his history and that had to be taken into account.

Case preparation

He did everything right in relation, in the light up of this offence, did the Traffic Offender Program, got some good references, a good letter of apology showed the insight into his offending. We were able to have this on reduced the period of disqualification from the automatic period down to the minimum period of three months, and he was issued with a $400 fine.

But, our client was understanding that it was his third drink driving. It was rightful that nothing more since the in relation to penalties came from this, and he was happy with the outcome. He can then move forward, hopefully, having learned a lot and finally putting these and all of his offending past behind him, so, yeah, a happy client and he’ll move forward. I think it being the last time, he will pay before our court.

Your low range drink driving matter in New South Wales

Put simply: We were able to have this on reduced the period of disqualification from the automatic period down to the minimum period of three months, and he was issued with a $400 fine. This matter was dealt with at Hornsby Local Court. The reading was 0.053. The material before the court included character references and a letter of apology. Facing low range drink driving in New South Wales? Call 1300 941 900 to discuss the charge and your record.

Read more on low range drink driving in the New South Wales traffic law section. This account of the Hornsby Local Court matter is general information only, not legal advice; past results do not predict yours. Call 1300 941 900 or make an enquiry about legal representation.

If you found yourself with a similar sort of situation with a major traffic offence, drink or drug drive, rest assure we focused in that area. Feel free to give me a call on 1300 941 900, or go along to our website.

There’s plenty of information there on the sort of laws, offences, penalties, and other case studies and videos like this. You can make yourself familiar with the situation you might find yourself in. But feel free to give me a call on 1300 941 900. If you want to give me a call, have a chat about the situation you might be in and we can have a chat to you about your case and what we can do for you.

Law update since this post (checked 21 Oct 2026)

This post was first published on 17 April 2020. The narrative above is kept as published. These notes record later changes to the law.

  • Since 20 May 2019, NSW police can deal with an eligible first-offence low range drink driving matter by penalty notice with an immediate 3-month licence suspension, instead of a court charge (Road Transport Act 2013).

FAQs about this post

What happened at Hornsby Local Court?

Episode 31 of the Boorman Lawyers Court Reports show, we take a look at a low range drink driving offence at Hornsby Local Court. It was our client’s third offence.

What did the magistrate order?

We were pushing for conditional release order due to the objective seriousness being quite low for this offence.

Does the NSW low range drink driving law in this post still apply?

This was first published 17 April 2020. For low range drink driving today, check the current NSW law page as well as any dated note on this post.

Sources and date checked

Sources and references for this page, checked 21 Oct 2026.

This page is general information about New South Wales law only. It is not legal advice. Every matter turns on its own facts.

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