Aussie Speeding Fines

News Flash!

Mike Palmer, creator and author of Aussie Speeding Fines, has finally decided to put his money where his mouth is! He is fighting speeding and unlicensed driving charges laid by Victoria Police in Moorabbin Magistrates Court (1140 Nepean Highway, Highett - Tel 90908001). His case is listed for contest mention on 4 September 2008. However, it is likely he will end up pleading guilty to various traffic offences. Unfortunately you will not be able to see Palmer use his marvellous legal knowledge to get off traffic charges (including driving without a licence)!

The smart money points to Palmer pleading guilty to two charges of exceeding the speed limit and two charges of unlicensed driving, which will be a big disappointment to all his customers who had so much faith in his legal theories. Although he has an Australian passport and has lived in Beaumaris for many years, he is actually driving around without any Australian drivers licence and relies on a New Zealand licence whenever he is intercepted by police. It is unlawful to use an overseas drivers licence if you are resident in Victoria for more than 3 months. If his legal theories are correct, then why would he need to pretend he is a New Zealander whenever he is detected speeding?

A website called aussiespeedingfines.com claims it can tell you how to avoid paying any parking or speeding fine. It proclaims: "HOW and WHY you should NEVER pay a speeding fine or parking ticket ever again!" and Simple PROVEN, step-by-step tips to BEAT all speeding and parking fines."

I suppose that also means you don't ever have to worry about the demerit points and any licence suspensions that may go with the traffic fines.

Many people have asked me whether the legal opinions, strategies and advice provided on the Aussie Speeding Fines website (some of which also appear on www.fightfines.info, and other sites) actually work. The following pages provide the answer.

Both aussiespeedingfines.com and fightfines.info advise motorists who receive a traffic ticket to send letters back to the enforcement agency in an attempt to avoid the fine. The major difference between the two sites is that aussiespeedingfines.com charges people approximately $67 for essentially the same information but packaged with additional material that is both inaccurate and irrelevant. The main product sold by aussiespeedingfines is a set of "pre-written letters" which the author suggests you should send to the enforcement agency that booked you. The site makes the bold claim that doing so will allow you to avoid liability for the traffic or parking infringement that you have received.

This ebook regurgitates much of the free information that is available online about how police detect speeding motorists and what you can do to help yourself. Here is a free 85 page speeding fine ebook written in Western Australia that does a better job than the $67.00 Aussie Speeding Fines ebook.

As for the pre-written letters that aussiespeedingfines.com provides, you can easily download the same or similar letters for absolutely free on the following pages (below) or from several other sites on the Internet. I do not endorse or recommend the use of these letters. Using these pro-forma letters is very likely to damage your chances of winning your case, and has almost no chance of saving you from licence loss or financial penalty. Click the links below to read about the aussiespeedingfines method.

I have no problem with people representing themselves in court to fight traffic fines. In fact, I recommend it to people in certain cases. But I do object to people paying good money for information that is not only incorrect, but positively dangerous to rely on. If Mike Palmer of Aussie Speeding Fines had consumer's interests at heart, he could simply publish his ideas for free online, and perhaps ask for donations from all his happy fans. But instead, he is making huge profits from selling bad legal advice, he tries to hide his identity from his customers and he pretends to have legal knowledge when in fact he has no legal training whatsoever. The sole purpose of this site is to make consumers aware how easy it is for anonymous con-men to rip-off vulnerable people by selling junk online. This site lifts the veil of anonymity and deception that the Aussie Speeding Fines website tries to hide behind.