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Wonder if anyone can offer some advice. Got 2 speeding tickets for driving 25 in a 20 zone on Hollyway Rd, Islington. My wife and I drive on this road every day, and it was inevitable, one or both of us, would get a bit heavy on the gas. Anyway we both currently, have 3 points on our respective licenses, from speeding fines in Yorkshire two years ago, and have both subsequently sat Speed Awareness Course.
I am trying to find a way if possible to avoid more points on the licenses. We genuinely do not know who was driving on any of the two speeding fines. Can anyone offer a lead here? thanks

I am trying to find a way if possible to avoid more points on the licenses.

Alas, that is unlikely.  Indeed, you may be turning 3 points into 6...

We genuinely do not know who was driving on any of the two speeding fines.

Upon receiving the request(s) you are to use reasonable diligence to identify the driver on each occasion.  If you do not know who was driving and cannot identify them after the aforementioned diligence then you do have the option to go to court and use the statutory defence.

However, there is a risk that you could be convicted for failing to furnish (6 points) if you cannot convince the bench you have reasonably exhausted the diligence.  What have you done so far as turning up at court and saying you just don't know is likely to be a certain conviction.

Given, there's 2 offences the keeper could be looking at a totting ban.

I think it wise to take one each.

I think it's wise to use the reasonable diligence to identify the driver as per the law.

is there anyway to appeal the points?

No.  That is called a defence - and there doesn't appear to be one?  (i.e. the driver wasn't speeding or there's an issue with the signage/relevant traffic order)

I don't know if either of you live in London, but it has been a real trial observing 20mph, in the quietest of streets.

Yeah, 20mph limits are a pest but nevertheless legal.

There are no points and nothing to appeal until you are convicted (or if you accept a fixed penalty - in which case there is no appeal).
If you mean defend the allegation - that depends on whether you have anything to defend it on. So far you have told us nothing that indicates a viable defence, and if you defend it on the grounds that you think it's unfair, you will lose and be ordered to pay ~£650 prosecution costs on top of whatever fine the court decides to impose (and 40% surcharge on that fine.

We apply the law to the facts, and where possible indicate viable defences. We can't simply magic up a viable defence just because the accused doesn't want the points.

No

Going from 3 points to 6, does that elongate the period of having the initial 3 points on my license?

I'm not 100% sure what you mean by this.  But, generally, the driver would receive 3 points for the speeding offence or (the keeper, usually) 6 points for failing to furnish (if convicted).  It would be unusual, but not impossible, to get 9 points for each.

But points are points, not matter how they are gained.  12 being the point at which a totting ban (6 months) would be triggered, absent an exceptional hardship plea.

thanks for this!