- Business transport offences
- Careless driving
- Dangerous driving
- Drink driving/excess alcohol
- Drunk in charge
- Exceptional hardship
- Mobile phone use
- Notices of intended prosecution
- Penalty points/totting up
- Remove disqualification
- Special reasons
- Speed cameras and furnishing information
- Speeding
- Traffic light offences
Special Reasons
Where special reasons are found, the Court may decide that the special reasons are sufficient to justify not ordering the endorsement of the licence.
A special reason must: -
- Be a mitigating or extenuating circumstance
- Not amounting in law to a defence to the charge
- Be directly connected with the commission of the offence, and
- Be one which the Court ought properly to take into consideration when imposing sentence.
Special reasons can apply in all motoring cases and a successful argument in this respect could, for example, make the difference between losing and retaining one’s licence.
Special reasons are not the same thing as exceptional hardship. Exceptional hardship arguments relate to the effects of the endorsement upon the offender.