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Update on this one - your advice saved me a tone of money and 3 points!

Luckily they had opened the actual speeding charge again for review with the failure to provide details…

I stated that I was concerned they would not believe me that I had not received the initial letters (which was 100% the truth) and that I would plead guilty to the speeding fine if the other charge was dropped.

I was hoping I could have done the speed awareness course but as it had progressed past the point of no return for that it wasn’t an option - I’ve had a clean licence nearly 30 years but the reduced fine was a huge relief.

So.. thank you!

Hi, yep that’s the situation - no letters received prior to the outcome of the court hearing. What can I say - if I didn’t get them I can’t respond. I would have rather received them all so I could have responded.

I’m expecting the hearing will go exactly as the questions you guys have asked and my response is still - I did not receive them, I do not know why and what else can I say..

Thanks all for taking the time to respond.

Over a year and a half ago, my lease car was supposedly caught doing 70 on the motorway when the variable speed was showing 60…

I received no correspondents at the time for the incident and then over 6 months later I received a letter in the post advising the outcome of a court hearing where the speeding offence was dismissed and instead I was charged with failure to provide my documents..

Originally I thought this was a scam so searched online and found the Single Justice Service details, contacted them and they confirmed it was indeed legitimate!!!

I was then peppered with letters to pay the fine of… wait for it!! over £1,000 and 6 points added to my clean licence…

The SJS advised me to raise all the relevant forms to contest/reopen the case but also advised me to pay the fine otherwise the chasing for payment may get more serious - so I filled out all the forms and paid the fine.

My first visit into court saw the speeding charge dropped due to no clear evidence of who was driving at the time and it being so long ago (both me and my wife drive the car) but had to return again for the failure to produce my documents (this was due to it being a police charge and not civil charge (or something like that) which the magistrate couldn’t handle there and then..

So then I returned to another/different court where the police charges are covered and this time they just had a piece of paper saying they sent the original letters on these dates and that was their evidence - they advised me I’d need to come back again for a full hearing and when I come back to bring my evidence of not receiving the letters!!! How do I do that??

So I’m back in court in a couple of weeks and really not sure what the outcome will be!

What’s the thoughts of people on here as to what the likely outcome will be? I’m currently assuming I’ll just get found guilty but it just seems so unfair - If I’d received anything around the speeding fine I would have just responded and confirmed who was driving at the time! Everyone keeps telling me it would have likely just been a speed awareness course!!!


Im in England in case that’s a key piece of info.. any help/advice appreciated