Fortunately the court found that exceptional hardship would flow from a totting up disqualification. The Defendant was not disqualified. She was ‘mighty’ relieved to keep her licence.
All such cases benefit from expert analysis of the issues and thorough preparation for the court hearing. Motorists often assume that if they require their licence for their job that a court will find in their favour. Although the court will often take this into account it is far from a determinative factor and such cases can be easily lost.
If you are at risk of loss of licence through a totting up disqualification and you would like the benefit of expert preparation and presentation of your case in court then don’t hesitate to get in touch with us.
Hello, Sunril. I, have, read this, and I do understand the Woman needed her licence for her special need children. I, need my licence ti save my career, my home, my car, my out of hours life visiting, family, and close friends. My Career. Without my employment I shall have no proper funds to pay my monthly outgoings. Without my home, that I pay monthly rent payments. Where, my landlord does not except unemployed persons. So, I shall not have a place ti live. Without my car that I pay monthly payments on. I, shall not be able to visit my family, and close friends. I would gladly take the slap on the wrist if I was going faster than 35 miles per hour in a 30 mile per hour zone. Especially, where the road behind me was a 60 miles per hour limit. Reducing my speed to 30. On, this occasion I obviously over read the signs. Whether, through tiredness or lack of concentration at the time. I, am a courier Driver. I, have driven over 10 years all over Europe, and the UK. Managing, to keep my licence clean. Until last year 2021 where on 5 occasions I managed to accumulate so many minor speeding tickets. I, drive the motorways 5 days a week and have to put up with speeding motorists not giving the slightest interest in other law abiding drivers. Mainly these speeding Motorist are the cause if so much destruction on our Motorways. Causing death, pain, and chaos to every road user. You, can not even overtake slow moving vehicles because of them. I place my vehicle on a 70mph limiter ie speed control, most of the time to prevent me going over the speed limits. Although on the occasions of my speed camera tickets I had not git my vehicle on my speed limiter. I, await your call tomorrow in respect of the above matter. Yours sincerely Graham Smith.
Dear Graham,
It is heartbreaking to read about just how costly loss of licence would be for many ordinary people; Job, home, family life and more can all be horrendously affected by loss of licence resulting in loss of job and career. What the court won’t take into account are some of the points you make above such as that others exceed the speed limit by far more and it is those people who cause most risk. When you are liable to a penalty points disqualification it matters not how the tally of points is accumulated. Points for only just exceeding a limit count just as much as points for grossly exceeding a limit (although, of course, you might get more points for the latter). I know that by the time I am responding to you we have already spoken at length. Thank you for your comment.