Lorraine Forman contacted us in October 2012 facing a speeding prosecution. She had been to court in March 2012 and had successfully argued exceptional hardship to avoid being disqualified under the “totting up” regime. However, the totting up rules state that you are not permitted to argue that a totting up ban would cause exceptional hardship based on the same set of circumstances within a 3 year period.
When Lorraine instructed us, we spent considerable time in gathering evidence to support exceptional hardship arguments that differed to the March case and we were eventually successful in persuading the court to impose a short term disqualification which was our client’s preference.
Below is an email she sent to the Senior Partner of the firm after her case was eventually heard in January 2013.
