Barristers & Driving Offences Success Stories

 Successful appeal against sentence after client disqualified from driving for six months by the Magistrates Court under ‘totting up’. Exceptional hardship argued in the Crown Court which was accepted as a result of which disqualification was quashed. Appellant able to continue to fulfil his critical role within his own large business.  

Successful ‘exceptional hardship’ plea in the Magistrates Court after the client had accrued 15 penalty points and therefore liable to disqualification under ‘totting up’. Decision allowed the client to keep his job.

 Successful appeal against sentence to the Crown Court after the Defendant’s ‘exceptional hardship’ argument rejected in the Magistrates Court. Mandatory disqualification of six months reduced by the Crown Court to two months. Appellant able to continue to trade his self-employed business which was at risk of closure for the duration of the longer disqualification.  

  A client charged with speeding in excess of 100 mph on an A road and at risk of immediate disqualification. Successful plea to the Court not to disqualify because of specific personal circumstances that led to the speeding accepted by the Court and only six penalty points imposed by the Court.  

 Client blew 125 on a breathalyser which is almost four times the legal limit. Successful plea in mitigation with the result and the client was sentenced to a short community order rather than possible imprisonment.  

  New driver stopped driving without insurance within two years of obtaining his driver’s licence. Court persuaded to impose a very short period of disqualification instead of six penalty points which would have resulted in the Defendant automatically losing his licence, having to re-sit his theory and practical tests to regain his licence.

  New driver stopped driving without insurance within two years of obtaining his driver’s licence. Court persuaded to impose a very short period of disqualification instead of six penalty points which would have resulted in the Defendant automatically losing his licence, having to re-sit his theory and practical tests to regain his licence.