Extraordinary licenses – should they be banned? By Anne Simpson
Thursday, January 28th, 2010If you commit a traffic offence(s) and have your driver’s license taken off you, why should you be allowed to apply for an extraordinary one? What was the point of meting out punishment in the first place?
A country magistrate has been recently quoted as wanting to ban extraordinary licenses so that people who commit offences on the road actually have to deal with the consequences of their actions and think twice about drink driving or speeding or behaving recklessly on the road. It appears that the law society opposes this, saying that it could impose unnecessary hardship on people if they were stranded at home and unable to get to work, take kids to school etc. (more…)
