Isn't the whole idea of not getting more than six points in the first two years of driving to get the message home to new drivers to BE CAREFUL AND PAY ATTENTION or lose your licence/ take a re-test?
So if you already got stung for one three point offence, and then a second within two years then it seems that this is not working...
CrazyDave, I can imagine it must be very frustrating but there's no getting away from the fact that you've commited two offences within the first two years of driving. Whether the second offence is almost at the two year point is irrelevant, they've both been commited within 24 months.
Unless I missed it, you never did say what your other driving offence was for?
I hope it wasn't for the same thing?
My advice would be to go to court and admit guilt, apologise to the magistrates and explain you made a mistake and didn't realise you were stopped illegally but accept you were in the wrong. I would suspect you'd get more leniency from them that way than by trying to make the Police look like fools and attempting to get off on a technicality.
But it's also worth looking through the threads on the forum about how many young/ new drivers behave like idiots on the road and infuriate everyone else as well as put others at risk. In those cases people are all too keen to have the law rammed home on the offenders.
And this is exactly why the 6 points within the first two years law was brought in. New/ young drivers ARE statistically proven to be at much higher risks of causing/ being involved in an accident and/ or making serious driving errors. That's why insurance is so damn high for under 25's.
Therefore any laws made to try and reduce accidents or any kind of driving error that can put others at risk should be applauded, not abused and ridiculed.
Admit guilt graciously, and explain that if you had to re-take your test it would cause you financial hardship as well as great inconvenience. Would it affect you attending a job/ college for instance? This would go down far better than making the Police out to be fools, as that can backfire and land you with a bigger fine and a more severe conviction/ ban.
The choice is yours...