Driving whilst disqualified

It is an offence for you drive a vehicle whilst you are disqualified or knowingly to permit a disqualified driver to do so. If you have been charged with doing so, you should contact keepmedriving as a matter of urgency.

If convicted you can expect to receive 6 penalty points and a fine of up to a £5,000 and up to 6 months in prison. The court will also have the option to disqualify further if it chooses to do so.

If whilst disqualified you attempt to obtain a new licence this can result in a £1,000 fine and, since that licence will not be valid, you could be charged with driving without a licence.

You should bear in mind that even if you have been charged with this offence it may still be difficult to prove that you were both driving the vehicle and doing so at a time when you were banned. Therefore, it is worth contacting keepmedriving since we may be able to put forward a defence.

Even if you do not have a defence there may be “special circumstances” which we can bring to the attention of the court which would go some way to mitigating any penalty that you incurred. You may, for example, have had to drive the vehicle in an emergency.

Contact keepmedriving either by completing the appropriate online information form which you will find in the Getting Help section, by requesting a free call-back using the free, no-obligation call-back form to the right or by phoning us during office hours on 084 4804 4804