1. WHY WAS MY ECB CASE RESCHEDULED?
When we last appeared in court on your behalf, your attorney determined that the best
course of action for your case was to request an adjournment. While it’s a rather simple
and routine decision we make on a regular basis, we understand many clients have
questions about why this happened and what it means. Hopefully the questions and
answers below will help explain.

2. Was my representative in court?
Yes. Your representative is there every single scheduled hearing date. The representative must bethere in order to assess the situation and determine the best course of action for your individual case.

3. Why did my attorney request an adjournment?
Your attorney simply felt your chances of success would be better on a different day. Your attorney looks at a number of different factors when making that determination—
who is the officer, who is the judge we’ve been randomly assigned to, what type of case is it, how good/bad is your driving record, what is the history of the particular case, etc. There was no single “reason” for the adjournment—it was a decision made by your attorney after assessing what your case looked like in it’s entirety on that particular day.

4. Was the inspector in court?
99.9% of the time, inspectors are never at the first scheduled hearing. And a lot of time that is why we adjourn your hearing.

5. Does the adjournment hurt my chances of winning my case?
No. Adjournments are a regular part of a case. A judge will ultimately decide your case based on what is said at a hearing and not on the adjournment history of the case. We believe strategic adjournments, if anything, help your case. First, we may be able to put you in a position where, on a subsequent date, we feel your chances of winning are better for one reason or another. Second, putting a little more time between the incident and the hearing date can only damage the inspector’s recollection. Finally, you never know—you may get lucky.

6. Are there additional legal fees or court fees?
There are no other legal fees. Your legal fee is a flat fee. We don’t adjourn a case to
generate more legal fees—we do it if we think it helps our client win. Different courts, different judges and different cases produce different results. The fact that a prior case may have proceeded one way doesn’t mean your current case will similarly proceed. If you have some preconceived notion of how a TVB case will
progress please understand that each case is indeed different.