"Totting Up" and Exceptional Hardship

If you are charged with a driving offence, you need to consider the number of penalty points already on your driving licence. If you accumulate 12 or more penalty points on your driving licence within any 3-year period, offence date to offence date, you fall to be disqualified from driving for at least 6 months. This is known as the ‘totting-up’ procedure.

However, if disqualified through the totting-up procedure, your driving licence will be wiped clean of all penalty points previously obtained.

The totting-up procedure can escalate a relatively minor driving offence for which you would receive 3 penalty points on your licence to being disqualified from driving for 6 months or more.

You will be disqualified through the totting-up procedure unless you have mitigating circumstances and disqualification would cause ‘exceptional hardship’ to you or your dependants.

How can Ellis Jones help?

If you have been accused of or are being investigated for a driving offence and would like to discuss your situation and the potential totting-up implications, please contact our legal experts to arrange a reduced fee initial meeting.