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If you want advice on your own case

I am not taking enquiries on individual cases through this site yet. If you have a deadline coming up, do these things, in this order.

Check the date on your notice. A Single Justice Procedure Notice normally gives you 21 days from the date printed on it. Missing that date is worse than anything you are likely to put in the reply. What the notice is, and what your options are.
Run the offence through the tool. It will tell you what you are likely to be facing and whether this is the kind of case worth paying somebody for. Check an offence.
If it is, instruct someone before you reply, not after. Pleading guilty by post gives up arguments you cannot get back, and the credit for a guilty plea is at its highest at the first opportunity. You can find a barrister who accepts work directly from the public through the Bar Council’s Direct Access Portal, or a solicitor through the Law Society’s Find a Solicitor.

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