The court can only fail to impose 3 points on your boyfriend's licence if there are 'special reasons' which relate to the speeding offence (not to the possible implications of any punishment). Unless your boyfriend is able to prove that he was, for example, rushing to visit his dying mother, it's unlikely that he'll be able to show 'special reasons' for speeding.
So the imposition of 3 penalty points seems to be inevitable. Then, because he'll have reached 12 points within a 3 year period, the court must decide whether to ban him from driving. The magistrates are obliged to impose a ban (of a minimum of 6 months) unless they consider that 'exceptional hardship' will result from such a ban. Magistrates are specifically advised that potential loss of employment does NOT, in itself, qualify as 'exceptional hardship'. There has to be something even more exceptional than that for it affect the decision of a court. (For example, a parent living in a rural area, with no buses or trains, might have to take their seriously ill child on a 300-mile round trip to Great Ormond Street Hospital once a week. The fact that a ban could cause serious problems for ANOTHER person, who is not guilty of any offence, is far more likely to influence a court than any potential problems that the defendant might face).
In reality your boyfriend should start looking for employment which doesn't require him to drive, and which he can get to by bus.
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Chris