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Who is behind this website

Licence Appeal Lawyers is an informational website about driver licence appeals in New South Wales. This page sets out what it is, how a law practice is regulated here, and how to check all of it for yourself.

General information, not legal advice. This page sets out how the law generally applies. It does not take account of your circumstances, and you should get advice about your own situation before acting on it. The official sources this page is written from are listed on it; where they differ from anything here, they are the authority.

Last updated: 23 September 2026

There is a great deal of information online about losing a licence, and much of it does not say who wrote it or where it came from. Some of it publishes a number of days that may be wrong for your notice. This page says who is behind this site and what it will and will not tell you.

Licence Appeal Lawyers is an informational website about driver licence appeals in New South Wales. Legal services offered through this website are provided by Jameson Law.

What this website covers

Driver licence decisions in New South Wales, and what can be done about them. Suspensions imposed by Transport for NSW after demerit points reach the limit the law sets, suspensions issued on the spot by police, the consequences that fall on learner and provisional drivers, and the appeal to the Local Court that the Road Transport Act 2013 (NSW) provides.

The pages here describe how those decisions work, what a court can do about them and what a magistrate considers, and each one lists the official sources it was written from.

Demerit suspension, and the good behaviour period offered as an alternative
Immediate suspension issued by police at the roadside
P and L plate drivers, where the thresholds are lower
Local Court appeals, including what the court can order
Habitual traffic offender matters, and removing a disqualification
Interlock orders under the mandatory alcohol interlock program

An appeal must be lodged within the period stated on your notice, and that period is short. If a notice has arrived, read check your notice before anything else on this site.

Where the figures come from

One editorial decision on this site is worth stating plainly. Where a figure depends on your own notice, or is set by a body that revises it — a demerit total, a suspension length, an interlock period, a court fee — these pages link to the source carrying the current one rather than printing it. Where a period is set by legislation, a page may state it and tell you which date it runs from.

The reason is that those figures depend on the kind of notice you have and are revised by the bodies that set them. A figure copied onto a website goes out of date quietly, and it reads exactly the same after it has stopped being true. If somebody relied on one of ours and filed on the last day they believed they had, the right to appeal could be lost and nothing could be done about it.

So the figure to act on is the one stated on your own notice, and the current position is on the official page. That is less convenient than a number printed here, and it is what the official source will say when you check it.

How a law practice is regulated in New South Wales

Solicitors in New South Wales practise under the Legal Profession Uniform Law, applied in this State by the Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Act 2014 (NSW). A solicitor may only practise while holding a current practising certificate, and the Law Society of NSW issues and enforces those certificates.

A practising certificate is not simply permission to trade. It carries obligations that run to you as the client: the conduct rules for solicitors, the duty of confidentiality, the duty of honesty to the court, costs disclosure rules, rules about how client money is held, and the requirement to be covered by professional indemnity insurance.

Complaints about a lawyer in New South Wales go to the Office of the NSW Legal Services Commissioner, which receives all complaints about lawyers in this State and deals with them under the Uniform Law. It is independent of any firm. Our complaints page explains how to raise something first and where to take it if that does not settle the matter.

How to check a practising certificate

You do not have to take any of this on trust. The Law Society of NSW publishes a Register of Solicitors, an online directory of New South Wales practices and solicitors who hold a current practising certificate. Search a name and you can see whether the certificate is current.

One thing is worth knowing about the register: the type of practising certificate a solicitor holds does not necessarily reflect the position that solicitor occupies at their principal place of practice, so it is not a guide to seniority or role.

Do this for any lawyer you are considering, including anyone you reach through this website.

What the liability limitation means

The line Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation appears in the footer of this site, and it means something specific.

A professional standards scheme is approved under the Professional Standards Act 1994 (NSW). Where a participating solicitor is sued over their professional work, the scheme caps the damages a court may award, provided the requirements in the scheme instrument are met. The Law Society of NSW administers the scheme for its solicitor members in private practice and publishes the scheme instrument.

The limitation does not reduce the duties a solicitor owes you, and it does not affect your right to complain to the Legal Services Commissioner or to dispute a bill. It limits the amount of civil damages recoverable in the circumstances the scheme covers.

What this website is, and what it is not

Everything here is general information about driver licence law and procedure in New South Wales. It is not legal advice and it cannot be, because it knows nothing about your notice. Reading it does not make you a client, and sending an enquiry does not either: a firm acts for you once a conflict check is done and you have a costs agreement. How it works sets out that sequence step by step.

Some things are deliberately not published here.

Thresholds, suspension lengths and fees. These depend on your notice or are revised by the body that sets them, so we send you to the notice and to the official page rather than printing them.
Fees. No figures, not even a range. What a licence matter costs depends on which sanction it is and how far it goes. You get it in writing before work begins.
Outcomes. No success rates, no case studies, no guarantees. The decision belongs to the magistrate, and anybody who tells you otherwise is describing something they cannot know.
Reviews and testimonials. None are published here.
Your solicitor. The Jameson Law team is shown below. Ask which solicitor would have carriage of your matter before you engage the firm.

Each page lists the official sources it relies on, and where a page shows a review date, treat that date as the limit of what we are telling you. If a page here and an official source disagree, the official source is right — and we would like to know, so the page can be corrected.

Privacy, terms and accessibility

Our privacy policy sets out what personal information is collected through this site and how it is handled, under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles. The terms of use cover the website itself.

Our accessibility page sets out the standard this site is built to, and how to ask for the same information in another format if any part of it is hard for you to use.

How to reach us

Use the enquiry form on the contact page, or telephone if the period on your notice is close. Keep a first message short: which notice you have and the date on it.

Phone

(02) 8806 0866

[email protected]

Enquiries

Through the form on our contact page.

Who you are contacting

Licence Appeal Lawyers is an informational website about driver licence appeals in New South Wales. Legal services are provided by Jameson Law. Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation.