5 Day Totting Ban Wipes Points from Licence

​We represented a driver who already had six points on their licence. He faced two further charges of failing to provide driver details. Each offence carries six penalty points or a discretionary disqualification. The court will usually impose penalty points where a driver is facing a totting up ban for reaching 12 or more points.

Points Wiped from Licence After 5 Days

Unfortunately, our client had forgotten to update his DVLA logbook, resulting in requests for driver information being sent to an old address. He was not the driver of the vehicle involved in the original speeding offences, but he had no defence to the offence of failing to provide driver details. The police would not drop the offences, so in these circumstances, we advised him to plead guilty.

The court imposed six points for each offence, bringing his total to 18 penalty points. However, we successfully argued for an exception due to exceptional hardship, thereby avoiding the usual 6-month ban.

The court imposed a shorter totting ban of 5 days! This meant that our client’s penalty points would be wiped from his licence after serving this short ban.

It is relatively uncommon for courts to impose a totting ban shorter than six months, so this was an exceptionally good result with which our client was delighted.

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