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Exceptional Hardship

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  • November 5, 2020 at 6:28 pm #31249
    Tom_77

    The guidelines for claiming “exceptional hardship” have changed, it should now be much harder to avoid a driving ban by claiming that you’d lose your job:

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    Loss of employment will be an inevitable consequence of a driving ban for many people. Evidence that loss of employment would follow from disqualification is not in itself sufficient to demonstrate exceptional hardship;

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    Hopefully this will take more bad drivers off the road.

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  • November 9, 2020 at 9:16 am #972723
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    Tom_77
    Gary’s bike channel wrote:
    before i got furloughed, my twatty boss started telling me about the cars theyd owned in the past, a load of lies, but i pretended to believe them. Apparently they owned a lot of fast vehicles, and one time they got caught speeding at 120 mph in their subaru impreza, but luckily, they knew a policeman who got them off in court, even though they got given a total of 20 points including that offence.  That doesnt happen! Police officers can’t get people off, if its down to the court, its up to the judges what happens to the defendant, the police officers testimony is only to help the judge grasp the situation.  

    Perhaps your boss’s policeman friend belongs to the same Masonic Lodge as the judge 😉

     

    November 8, 2020 at 8:50 pm #972721
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    wtjs

    There is no point in being

    There is no point in being surprised at a legal representative saying anything up to and including lying on behalf of a client- that’s what they’re paid for. The problem is judges and magistrates taking the representations seriously- you will recall the recent joke suspended sentence for a woman who killed the ‘older’ cyclist (by knocking him off so that the driver close behind could properly finish him off) near Aberystwyth because the ‘sun was in her eyes and he was wearing a distracting reflective jacket’ (not an exact quote!). Drivers are expected by the ‘sentencers’ to kill the odd cyclist, putting them in prison won’t bring the cyclist back etc. etc.

    November 8, 2020 at 8:34 pm #972719
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    Simon E
    ktache wrote:
    It was almost as though the points were pointless.

    More that the chances of getting away with the crime relies on the defendant’s (or their solicitor’s) ability to cynically play the self-pitying  destitution card.

    I always thought that any driver caught driving like a c*** deserves to be taken off the road, regardless of the ‘hardship’ plea. Perhaps magistrates will finally be able to acknowledge that these are crimes that must be dealt with accordingly.

    November 8, 2020 at 5:28 pm #972717
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    Gary's bike channel

    before i got furloughed, my

    before i got furloughed, my twatty boss started telling me about the cars theyd owned in the past, a load of lies, but i pretended to believe them. Apparently they owned a lot of fast vehicles, and one time they got caught speeding at 120 mph in their subaru impreza, but luckily, they knew a policeman who got them off in court, even though they got given a total of 20 points including that offence.  That doesnt happen! Police officers can’t get people off, if its down to the court, its up to the judges what happens to the defendant, the police officers testimony is only to help the judge grasp the situation.  

    November 7, 2020 at 8:55 pm #972715
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    David9694

    Hey Siri, give me a list of

    Hey Siri, give me a list of all the the things I should have thought of before I drove like a prat.

    November 6, 2020 at 6:43 pm #972713
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    Bmblbzzz

    Let’s see how mags implement

    Let’s see how mags implement this.

    November 5, 2020 at 10:00 pm #972711
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    ktache

    It was almost as though the

    It was almost as though the points were pointless.

    November 5, 2020 at 9:33 pm #972709
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    andystow

    Nice.

    Nice.

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