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Private parking tickets / Re: Letter of claim from DCB legal
« on: December 29, 2025, 10:23:48 pm »
I do not remember receiving the original notice. 

Thank you kindly for the defence it is tremendously helpful, as is the advice on how to submit the defence. I can confirm I have done this so will sit tight and wait now

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Private parking tickets / Letter of claim from DCB legal
« on: December 13, 2025, 09:30:47 am »
Hello,

I have receieved a letter of claim which is attached.  I have today submitted an AoS for the claim, and i believe I have 28 days to submit a defence. Could anybody help with this defence and let me know if it is worth pursuing.  I would not leave my vehicle in a disabled bay as the leisure centre had an abundance of spaces, I think I may have parked there for a few minutes whilst waiting in the car. It could also be that somebody else was using my car.

https://ibb.co/5xSNj71H

Thank you

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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Salford Council, bus lane contravention, Chapel Street
« on: March 27, 2025, 03:37:14 pm »
Hello,

I have receieved a PCN from Salford City Council for a bus lane contravention.  Would it be worth appealing this. I was using a courier SATNAV and unfortunately the directions provided took me on this road, and I did not realise I was within the operating hours of the bus lane

Please find attached PCN :

https://imgur.com/a/qpcYsUm

Many thanks

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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Manchester council, performing a prohibited right turn M56 Junction 6
« on: March 27, 2025, 03:35:10 pm »
Hello,

I have receieved a PCN from Manchester City Council for an alleged moving traffic contravention.  Would it be worth appealing this, I was following satnav and as it was dark I did not see any no right turn signs or anything similar (haven't been to the area before). 

Please find attached PCN :

https://imgur.com/a/3IQarZl

Many thanks

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Speeding and other criminal offences / Re: Single justice procedure issued for driving in lane with RED X
« on: March 06, 2025, 03:28:10 pm »
Thank you for all the advice. I think I will plead guilty to the SJPN and include a covering letter explaining the circumstances in the hope that they will show some leniency on the points. Perhaps offer me a motorway awareness course, although I completed one in February 2021

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Speeding and other criminal offences / Re: Single justice procedure issued for driving in lane with RED X
« on: March 06, 2025, 01:30:07 pm »
Thanks - I understand however i still think there was not enough of a gap for me to move over or stop safely, as there were vehicles behind me. I did make effort to move over or stop, such as reducing my speed but did not want to cause a collision.

Would you advise me to plead guilty via post and accept 3 points?  I would like to avoid any penalty points, I already have 3 penalty points on my license albeit they expire next year.  I have been a full time taxi driver for over 30 years with no other driving offences or accidents in this time.

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Speeding and other criminal offences / Re: Single justice procedure issued for driving in lane with RED X
« on: March 05, 2025, 05:25:59 pm »
Hi

I will email info@nationalhighways.co.uk (is that the correct email if anybody has done it before)
And ask about the logs. Hopefully they will provide me with some clarification on how long I had to move out of the lane before I was flashed.

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Speeding and other criminal offences / Re: Single justice procedure issued for driving in lane with RED X
« on: March 05, 2025, 04:54:30 pm »
I’m not actually sure if it was one or two gantries that displayed the arrows, nor am I sure if they were in the first lane, second lane or both lanes.

Surely there should be a record of how long and which lanes the white arrows were displayed.

But if this isn’t recorded or logged then the judge would simply find me
Guilty based on one photo of my car in the red X lane, with traffic behind me and next to me. Despite me saying in court that the arrows were not clearly displayed in both lanes and did not give me enough time to safely move over before the red x was displayed

I appreciate the advice and input from everybody, I will decide in the next few days which way to plead

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Speeding and other criminal offences / Re: Single justice procedure issued for driving in lane with RED X
« on: March 05, 2025, 02:23:27 pm »
Thanks - at least that some consolation.  If i decided to plead not guilty and the matter went to court, would i be able to request more video / photo evidence such as how long the arrows were displayed for prior to the RED x, and how long I was driving in the red X lane before i moved over? Can i request this information before i make my plea?

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Speeding and other criminal offences / Re: Single justice procedure issued for driving in lane with RED X
« on: March 04, 2025, 06:54:19 pm »
Thank you. What would be the likely penalty in terms of points if I was to plead guilty?

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Speeding and other criminal offences / Re: Single justice procedure issued for driving in lane with RED X
« on: March 04, 2025, 02:10:43 pm »
This is why I would like to know how long the arrows were displayed for, and in which lanes, before the photograph was taken at 21:14. as well as wanting to know how long i was in the RED X lane for.

 I was in the first lane when i saw one white arrow saying i must move out of the first lane.  After this i continued in the second lane and then I saw another white arrows displayed in the second lane saying i must move over to the third lane.  I cannot remember how long I was in each lane for, but as soon as I saw the arrows i made efforts to move out of the lane as soon as possible. The motorway was congested and it was dark, so lots of bright lights in all the mirrors.

Any advice on how to proceed generally would be appreciated.  If I can request this information and there is chance of being found not guilty I would prefer this route. However if it is pretty certain I will be found guilty in court either way I would like to minimise the penalty as much as possible (I realise this will be harder having not accepted the fixed penalty)

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Speeding and other criminal offences / Re: Single justice procedure issued for driving in lane with RED X
« on: March 04, 2025, 01:54:31 pm »
Yes i did see that.  I believe the red X had been set at that location for 30 minutes. However prior to this location there were no RED X signs - only (white) arrows telling me I must move over from the first lane, and then the second lane.  So at the point the photo was taken (21:14:25) there was a red X there that had been there for 30mins 8secs and my vehicle was in that lane.    However prior to this point there were only arrows, firstly in the first lane and then just before the RED X the arrows also appeared in the second lane.  So I did not have enough time to move over, and could not come to a complete stop as there is a car behind me.  Is there anyway to find out how long I was in the RED X lane for?

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Speeding and other criminal offences / Re: Single justice procedure issued for driving in lane with RED X
« on: March 04, 2025, 01:35:14 pm »
Yes my only defence is that I moved over as soon as I could when I saw the arrows and pRED x.

There was traffic behind me which is why I did not choose to come to a complete stop.

I would like to know how long the arrows and red X was displayed for and how long I was driving in the closed lane for. As far as I can remember I only saw white arrows (not red) whilst I was trying to move over and the RED x was only displayed for a matter of seconds.

The photos show 2 timestamp within 1 second of each other where the red x is displayed

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Speeding and other criminal offences / Single justice procedure issued for driving in lane with RED X
« on: March 04, 2025, 11:31:30 am »
Hello,

In august 2024, I receieved a NIP for the offence of 'Drive on motorway, failed to comply with red/green arrow/lane closure signals on the M6 from staffordshire police.  My speed was recorded at 39mph.

When I received the NIP I was dismayed. I was driving on the motorway in the first lane of the motorway when I remember seeing some arrows above the first lane of the motorway indicating I should move over to the next lane. As the motorway was heavily congested I wasn’t able to move to the second lane straight away but managed to move across to it.
a few hundred yards after this I noticed the lane I was currently in now had a red x above it and I needed to move over. Again because of the congestion it took me a bit of time to move over but when it was safe to do so I did.

I checked the pictures of the offence (attached) and indeed there was a car and truck in the lane next to me and also a vehicle behind me.  I admitted to being the driver and opted to take the matter to court instead of accepting the fixed penalty notice (I have already dont a motorway awareness course for speeding in the last 3 years)

on 18/02/2024 I receieved a SJPN.  I intend to plead not guilty and take the matter to court. I am posting here to get some general advice on how to prepare my defence and how to proceed. The SJPN has a deadline of 11 March to make my plea.

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Private parking tickets / Re: Letter before claim from DCB legal
« on: January 06, 2025, 12:34:47 am »
Thank you - I have submitted the defence.

I had a question about the draft order, it says in the defence 'The Defendant has attached to this defence a copy of an order made at another court'.  What is the meaning of this?

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