Not long ago I wrote a report for a guy who was doing over 100 in a 60 zone at 5.30am. He sought advice from a solicitor who asked for a couple of character references and I was to furnish one of them.
Not long into quizzing my mate about circumstances I realised that I could build a case report around him having hypoglycaemia at that time in the morning whilst he'd skipped brekkie and his mother suffered diabetes. My mate usually doesn't speed according to himself; which I believe. In fact on Fb he abhors excessive speed on public roads.
Four hours of work into a report that's pretty much waterproof, his solicitor didn't want to use the report. He only wanted a character reference.
Privately I took the report (with name removed) to 2x traffic lawyers and both of them said my mate would have got off on a "Section 10" or a "Gilsons" with a reasonable judge.
Oh well - I wish him all the best anyway.