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Live cases legal advice => Speeding and other criminal offences => Topic started by: NazLeeds on August 21, 2024, 10:32:29 pm
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It's best he posts himself as things tend to get lost or mistaken in the telling. This is immediately obvious because he will almost certainly not have received a "court summons" as they are rarely used these days.
There is usually a way to deal with this so that only the speeding matter is sentenced but we need to know exactly what he has received and what it says.
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Pleading guilty to the speeding would be a rash move, there is then nothing to stop them continuing the prosecution for the S172 offence and leaving him having to defend it (possibly unsuccessfully).
It is better to plead NOT guilty to both charges and in the mitigation offer to state he will plead guilty to the speeding if the S172 is discontinued, sometimes the single justice will action that otherwise it may require a (short and simple) court visit.
This is a well trodden path, simple to execute and in all but one case (where the defendant made an ass of himself and frankly got what they deserved) successful.
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Hi I am seeking some advice on behalf of a friend.
He has relayed the circs to me as follows.
Flashed speeding back in April this year. He was awaiting for some relevant paperwork to be sent through the post.
Nothing arrived since then but today states he has received a court summons.
He intends to plead guilty to the speeding but wishes to please not guilty to for failing to disclose driver details. He states had something arrived through the post he would have completed and returned it with his details.
He is the RK and only person on the insurance so would not have said otherwise.