SCCRC refers drink driving case to High Court of Justiciary

On 25 October 2020, Anita Frame pled guilty to a contravention of section 5(1)(a) of the Road Traffic Act 1988.

A community payback order for two years was imposed and the applicant disqualified from driving for 30 months.

The commission concluded that there had been a failure to discount the length of the community payback order. There had been also a failure to offer the applicant the opportunity to attend a drink driving rehabilitation course which might reduce the length of the disqualification period which was itself, at least, at the upper end of the scale.