Violet is currently in her late twenties. About 4 years ago, she was the victim of persistent bullying in her workplace. Violet became depressed and anxious. As a result she stopped opening her mail and started to spend beyond her means. Over the last year, with the help of her psychologist, Violet started to take control of her life.
Violet had accrued over 35 fines over the last 4 years. She had been on payment plans but would always default on them because she’d forget to make the payments. Some of her fines were now at a warrant stage and the Sheriff had suspended her licence. She owed the Infringements Court over $15,000.
We applied for a revocation under special circumstances citing her mental health issues. Violet provided us with reports from her General Practitioner and her Psychologist. We knew that a complete revocation of the fines was probably not going to happen so we made submissions for a variation of costs. We were hoping to at least get the fines back to their original amount. We also made an application for a payment plan at the same time so the interest would stop accruing.
The Infringements Court granted a variation of costs on all of Violet’s outstanding fines. The total amount she owed was now halved. However, our application for a payment plan was refused as she had defaulted too many times in the past. We called the Infringements Court and pleaded her case since she did not have the $7500 she now owed readily available . The Registrar agreed to give her one more chance.