Judge clarifies driving offence

You don’t get a second chance to make a first impression — and a High Court judge has now ruled that you also can’t get a second first conviction when it comes to driving with no insurance.

The ruling issued by Mr Justice Seamus Noonan follows a consultative case stated by Judge Gerard Haughton, a district court judge in Wexford, in the matter of the DPP and Francisc Petrovici.