Edmonton
300 Maclean Block
10110 107 St NW
Edmonton, AB
T5J 2A7
Phone: (780) 784-7500
Toll Free: (833) 784-7500
Grande Prairie
10014 99 St #510
Grande Prairie, AB
T8V 3N4
Phone: (780) 539-9300
Toll Free: (800) 565-5415
Fort McMurray
#203A, 9707 Franklin Ave.
Fort McMurray, AB
T9H 2K1
Phone: (587) 275-0035
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Criminal Defence Lawyers
Two systems, two sets of rules, one of them with a clock already running. We handle both: SafeRoads IRS reviews and Criminal Code impaired driving defence at every level of court.
7-Day IRS Deadline
Received an Immediate Roadside Sanction? You have 7 days to file for a review. Weekends and holidays count. We respond within 24 hours, including weekends.
Grande Prairie: (780) 539-9300 · Fort McMurray: (587) 275-0035
The IRS review deadline.
Weekends and holidays count.
Our normal response time, including weekends and holidays.
Our office has never missed an IRS filing deadline.
Cancelled penalties plus recovered towing and impound fees on a successful review.
The disclosure in an Immediate Roadside Sanction and the disclosure in a Criminal Code impaired or over-.08 prosecution are very different, and what wins one can be irrelevant in the other. You have to know which law applies and how it applies to your specific facts.
One Note on Words, Because It Matters
If you searched for a "DUI lawyer", you're in the right place. DUI is the American term; Canada's Criminal Code calls these offences impaired driving, operation over the legal limit, and refusal. The police who stopped you, the Crown prosecutor handling the file, and the judge who hears it will all use the Canadian terms. This page uses both so you can find it, and the correct ones so you can use them.
— What is At Stake
People sometimes assume a roadside sanction is like a speeding ticket: pay it and move on. The math says otherwise. If your review succeeds, you do not pay the fine. Our office also files the paperwork to have the government reimburse your towing and impound fees.
Between the cancelled penalty, the recovered fees, and the insurance consequences that follow a sanction on your record, a successful review is routinely worth thousands of dollars, quite apart from getting you back on the road.
No outcome can be promised, and whether a review succeeds depends entirely on the facts and records in your case. What we can tell you is what we look for.
"If you contact us in time, the deadline becomes our problem instead of yours."
Why We Answer on Weekends
Count 7 from the date on the notice, including weekends. Then call.
Frequently Asked Questions
Functionally yes. DUI is the American term; the Criminal Code of Canada calls the offences impaired driving, operation while over the legal limit, and refusing a lawful demand. If you’re searching for a DUI lawyer in Edmonton, impaired driving defence is the service you’re looking for.
7 days from the notice, including weekends and holidays. Barring exceptional circumstances, late applications will not be heard, which is why acting immediately matters more in IRS files than almost anywhere else in this area of law.
You do not pay the fine, and the government can be required to reimburse towing and impound fees, paperwork our office files as part of the review. Combined with the insurance consequences avoided, a successful review is often worth thousands of dollars.
No. An IRS is a provincial administrative penalty under Alberta’s SafeRoads program; a criminal charge proceeds under the Criminal Code through the courts. They have different procedures, different evidence, and different consequences, and some drivers face both at once.
Prosecution policies restrict resolving criminal impaired charges as traffic offences, so this rarely reflects reality. The realistic paths in an impaired file run through disclosure review, technical and Charter issues, and resolution discussions on the criminal charge itself.
Mandatory minimums scale with blood alcohol level: a $1,000 fine from .08, $1,500 from .12, and $2,000 at .16 or above, plus a minimum one-year driving prohibition and the ignition interlock program for full licence reinstatement. Higher penalties apply to repeat offences, including mandatory jail.
Normally within 24 hours of a consultation request, including weekends and holidays. IRS deadlines are the reason: with a 7-day window, waiting until Monday can cost a client their review.
Impaired driving has become one of the most technical areas of criminal law. Since the Supreme Court of Canada's ruling in R. v. Hufsky in 1988 set out the state's power to stop motorists, thousands of decisions on the stop, the demand, the testing procedure, and the Charter have shaped what a defence looks like. There are few open-and-shut impaired cases; there are files where the issues have been found and files where they haven't been looked for.
Our lawyers have run thousands of impaired driving trials at every level of court. Some of them have been defending these files since the 1990s, through every major change in the law. In any criminal trial there can be no guarantee of success, and you should be wary of any lawyer who promises one. What experience buys is something different: knowing every place a file can be won, and the judgment to tell you honestly which ones are open on your facts.
[Criminal Code offence descriptions, penalty table, and interlock terms retained from the current page sit here, condensed, per the rewrite document.]
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Free, confidential consultation. Normal response within 24 hours, weekends and holidays included.
Toll Free: (833) 784-7500
Toll Free: (800) 565-5415
Edmonton
300 Maclean Block
10110 107 St NW
Edmonton, AB
T5J 1J4
Phone: (780) 784-7500
Toll Free: (833) 784-7500
Grande Prairie
#510, 10014 99 St
Grande Prairie, AB
T8V 3N4
Phone: (780) 539-9300
Toll Free: (800) 565-5415
Fort McMurray
#203A, 9707 Franklin Ave.
Fort McMurray, AB
T9H 2K1
Phone: (587) 275-0035
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