‘Totter’ with 13 Penalty Points Avoids Disqualification Through Successful Exceptional Hardship Argument

This driver, represented at the Magistrates’ Court by Millicent Dooher, had pleaded guilty to 4 speeding offences, totalling 13 penalty points. Following mitigation, the Court accepted that the driver would face exceptional hardship should any disqualification be imposed and as such imposed no period of disqualification for this driver. The law would normally impose a mandatory 6-month disqualification for the accumulation of 12 or more penalty points.