Faye attended court early on the day with copies of all of the documentation she had been advised to obtain. Sunil attended early too and made sure that she fully understood the process and dealt with any last minute questions she had. In court the Magistrates were persuaded of every element of Faye’s case and they disqualified her for only 21 days. Given what is set out above, this was the very best sentence Faye could have hoped for (indeed, she wanted a short disqualification rather than 6 penalty points or a long ban). This sentence would usually have been reserved for those exceeding the limit by a much lower margin than Faye had done.
Faye said, ‘ Sunil explained matters from the very beginning all the way through to our day in court so that I fully understood what was required and why we were adopting the approach we did. In court, he had to walk a tightrope but he did so expertly and sensitively putting matters across so that I gained the sympathy of the court. I could not have asked for a better result.’