The court said that in the light of the evidence that had been presented on Luca’s behalf (including the driving course certificate) and, having listened to the way his case was presented, that they would not disqualify him at all but would simply impose a fine and penalty points! Luca was very pleased to avoid the ban and the significant impact upon his personal and professional life that would have followed had he not been advised to prepare for the hearing as he had:
He wrote: ‘The difficulty that a ban would have caused me in my personal and professional life did not bear thinking about (not to mention the vastly increased insurance premiums that I would have been charged had I been banned). I am most grateful to you for guiding me through this process. Without your expert advice and representation, I fear I would have suffered an entirely different fate.’