Free Traffic Legal Advice

You are Hans Christian Andersen and I claim my £5.

So, you currently have 6 points on your licence which "expire" (for the purposes of totting up they cease to be relevant if the subsequent offence(s) are more than 3 years after the date of offence, 4 years for removal from the [virtual] counterpart and 5 years from date of conviction for declaring to insurers) by 27/07/2026? July 2027?, and have been caught twice subsequently at 81 in unspecified limits on motorways, and have somehow been given another 6 points already for those offences, may or may not have been issued CoFPs and are seeking advice regarding how to deal with those offences for which you've [told us that you've] already been given the points.

And you want to know how lenient the mags in Gloucester are. Well, that's an easy one - Roger is a typical Guardian reader, Betty thinks that Nigel Farage is a bit wishy washy and Doris hates all men since she found out about her husband's affair.

You could try simply paying £100 for the second offence (and submitting your DL details). However it is almost certain that your £100 will be returned and court proceedings will be taken against you. The police have six months from the date of the offence to begin those proceedings and in many areas they take all of that.

You will face a six month disqualification under the "totting up" rules. You can avoid it if you can convince the court that you or others will suffer "exceptional hardship" if you are banned.

So what hardship that is "exceptional" (that is, over and above that suffered by anyone facing such a ban) will you or others suffer?