If you get 12 or more penalty points on your driving licence within a 3 year period, you will “tot” and be liable for a disqualification. The Court must ban you from driving for a minimum period of 6 months (or longer if your have previously been disqualified)
Can I avoid a ban?
If it can be shown to the Court that “to disqualify you from driving would cause you or another Exceptional Hardship”, then the Court can exercise it’s discretion not to disqualify you and allow you to keep you licence.
What is Exceptional Hardship?
Exceptional Hardship as the name suggests, must be significant hardship. It must go far beyond mere inconvenience. If you drive for a living, or as part of your employment and if you as a result of a disqualification, you would lose your employment and that income loss would cause you financial difficulty, then you may qualify for Exception Hardship. But of loss of employment is not the only circumstance that Exceptional Hardship can apply to. Medical reasons and care of others have also been found as causing Exceptional Hardship, if you were disqualified from driving. Each case is different and the Court will judge each case upon it’s own merits. Hull Motoring Solicitors are experts in presenting these applications before the Court, with an enviable success rate.
What happens to the points?
If you are disqualified through getting too many points and you either did not make an application for Exceptional Hardship, or the application failed then the points will cease to be effective on your licence at the end of the ban, meaning you have a “clean” licence!
If the application is successful, and the Court allows you to keep your licence, the points will remain on your licence until they are removed by the process of time (3 years after the offence).
What do I do now?
If you are facing a disqualification because you have accrued too many penalty points, then you need to talk to Carl today and see how your licence can be saved. Click here to “ask a question”
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