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I'll send up the doctor

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

Not necessarily, you can drive on 12 points and above as long as the Court doesn't ban you.

IMO this man went about it the wrong way, as soon as they said were going to suspend you he should have said, "I'm appealing against your decision". The Council then would have given him his badge back until an appeal at the local Magistrates Court was heard. In many cases the driver wins.

That is no longer the case. The council have the power to suspend immediatly if they considder the driver to be too great a risk. The driver can still apeal but he will not have his badge until he wins the appeal.

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Grandad,

The driver is still driving on appeal

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There you have it then, he'll go to the magistrates and they'll rip the council a new backside saying, "what gives you the right to take a mans living away from him"? They'll award the case to the driver.

Er mm I think you need to look at some cases Granddad, no Council in this land can take your living away from you? All you've got to say is, "I'm appealing", 10 minutes later your back out on the road. The Magistrates love these Council cases.

I went in with a guy who'd accrued 15 points in one day and won, the magistrates said to the driver, we are allowing your appeal on the basis that you will not accrue anymore points within 4 years we urge you to drive with caution. In 4 years he didn't get any points and now has a clean licence, he's one of the best drivers in our town he was just unlucky one Sunday that's all.

It's a different set of criteria that allows a court not to ban for totting up, to that of allowing or not an appeal against revocation.

I suspect the court will up-hold the council's decision.

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And I think you need to look at the latest regulations or whatever they are called. If a driver is accused of say indescent assult, the council can now take the badge away immediatly and the driver can't work until his appeal is heard.

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Grandad,

It all depends on how many points he had since his last renwal. At his last renewal he was deemed "fit and proper" by default. If he has had only one offence since then he cant be denied his livilyhood unless banned by a court.

That's what the Magistrates will look at. I know bus drivers who have accrued 9 points in 4 years and are still driving buses. There's also some HGV drivers out there who also have 9 + points.