She needs to make an exceptional hardship plea. The most effective pleas don’t focus on hardship for the driver as after all it’s supposed to be a punishment. Instead, they focus on hardship that would be caused to others as a result of the ban.
For example, if you have an elderly relative you need to drive to medical appointments and there’s no public transport available, that could be a good argument.
It’s also wise to be explain why public transport / taxis etc would not be an option.
For those who are mentioning pleading exceptional hardship and getting the ban reduced, as far as I’m aware that never happens. You either have a successful plea in which case you don’t get banned, or you aren’t successful in which case you’re banned for 6 months. It’s not something you can negotiate.
It’s worth mentioning that you can’t use the same plea twice, so if she gets caught again she’ll have a bit of a problem.
There are forums dedicated to helping people in these sorts of situations which will probably help you out more than people will on here. Fightback forums is one of them.
Appreciate your post, thank you.
We're working on it every evening and we are indeed pursuing EH. I think we have enough evidence to support it but I keep hearing that it's very much a mood of the day sort of thing and that nothing is guaranteed.
