The client was prosecuted for failing to provide (vehicle driver). The issues in the case were mental fitness and failure by police to call a social worker due to the client’s vulnerable state. At the second hearing which was listed for trial David Houldcroft (Gold panel lawyer) instructed by Laura Heywood (reviewing lawyer) persuaded the prosecution to accept a guilty plea to fail to provide (in charge) with relatively short discretionary ban instead of the mandatory 12 month disqualification.