Driving ban

[Liz65]

If a driver is committed to jail for a driving offence and receives a driving ban as well, does the ban take effect immediately, or from when he is released from prison?

[another-view]

Does he plan on doing a lot of driving while in prison?

[another-view]

I would hope so. Not much point in being banned for a year, yet spending that year in prison.

[Liz65]

Thanks Zacsmaster, that's what I wanted to know. As you say, another-view, it's rather pointless. Hopefully the law will be changed. Liz

[New Judge]

They do run concurrently and the Conservatives are suggesting a change in the law. However, they may face a struggle as the entire principle of concurrent sentencing will have to come under scrutiny.

As well as this there are practical difficulties because, of course, prisoners do not serve all the time to which they are sentenced in custody. They serve at most a half and then are released on licence. There would be difficulties in the defendant not knowing when his ban begins (and hence when it ends); there would also be difficulty in �re-banning� him in the unlikely event that he is recalled to prison.

All in all a non-starter.