u/t_parkering

I moved to Norway two-and-a-half years ago from the UK with a temporary residence permit that expires this December (my job contract ends in November). When I arrived I bought a car and insured it, which required me to upload my UK driver's licence. I also did the paperwork for an international driving licence in the UK.

A week ago I was photographed by a speed camera and found to be over the speed limit, which has led to Statens vegvesen sending me a letter saying I need to provide my licence as I am not registered in Norway.

I thought I was driving legally. but have now found out that I needed to exchange my UK licence for a Norwegian one after 90 days of being in the country. Because I did not make this exchange, it appears that I have technically been driving without a valid licence. Obviously this is a mistake on my part which I regret - I should have done more research when buying and insuring the car.

Questions:

What punishment should I expect for driving without a technically valid licence?

If I am to be deported, what are the timescales given I'm leaving in November?

Will this infraction affect my ability to re-enter the shengen in future?

Can anybody recommend good law firms to deal with this case?

Bit of a stretch, but I want to make classic English Yorkshire puddings - any thoughts on where I can buy ready-made mix? If not I'll just make the batter myself.

I led a team of four (one more senior, two more junior) on a field experiment last year, and I stupidly set up an instrument to record too infrequently, so the recorded values were sometimes saturated and therefore worthless. The details aren't important, but suffice to say that some of the data from the instrument is usable and some is not.

The experiment went well overall (other instruments worked fine) and I am lead authoring the paper. I'm presenting my results, and need to say something like "due to an operator error, this instrument was saturated from the hours of 10AM to 4PM and we therefore we only analyse data from early morning and late afternoon/evening".

I'd like to somehow own my mistake rather than vaguely saying "operator error" which sounds a bit like I'm blaming it on my team, or at least somebody else. I'm particularly concerned that if I don't clarify, a reader would assume that it was one of the two more junior scientists on the paper that made the mistake.

However, it's unconventional (to say the least) to report individual contributions within a manuscript. i.e. I would never say something like "X set up the flux meter, and Y set up the magnetowidget". So it seems inappropriate to say "due to an error by Z, the instrument was saturated". And even if it were appropriate in this instance, I wouldn't like to see a precedent set where individual authors are singled out for their mistakes as a rule.

How should I handle this?