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News / Press Articles / Katie Price banned (again)
« on: April 08, 2026, 11:21:58 am »
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gjp7xwjyzo

Not wanting to get into whether she has some mental health issues that result in her getting into so many scrapes with the law, and seemingly (not for the first time) burying her head in the sand and failing to respond to the S.172, but the article is a little odd.

It talks about the SJP being "secretive" and that "it is not known if Price was given the chance to argue against another driving ban." Surely the SJP doesn't dish out bans, presuming this is another totting ban. What it commonly said in these forums is that a potential ban (totting or otherwise) will trigger an in-person hearing in a court, to offer the chance of pleading exceptional hardship. Or maybe she just ignored all court letters as well, which results in the default action of SJP and totting ban.

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News / Press Articles / Thousands of drivers wrongly fined for speeding since 2021
« on: December 16, 2025, 08:07:15 am »
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70rk80p9eqo

While any incorrect prosecutions will be reversed, fines and points remedied, what if there are people who totted up as a result of this, and the consequential losses from that?

"Meanwhile, police forces have stopped issuing fines from variable cameras until they have confidence in their accuracy." Free for all on many of England's motorways? Who wants to risk it?

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The Flame Pit / New Drivers and disqualification/revocation
« on: November 06, 2025, 10:42:47 am »
It has often been mentioned on these forums (and its predecessor) that when a new driver (less than 2 years on full licence) gets 6 points or more, that their licence is revoked and that they need to start all over again. It has also been stated that this is an administrative process by the DVLA and so the court doesn't really get a say in what happens.

However, there's a new CyclingMikey video on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq-EzEdfeHY) showing that there seems to be another option. Starting at about the 4:00 mark, he reports that the errant new driver managed to plead (what he called exceptional circumstances) to get a 1 month ban for their mobile phone offence, rather than having those 6 points and getting their licence revoked.

So it seems it may not necessarily be a slam-dunk revocation in such cases if you have an appropriate hardship case. Not going to discuss the rights and wrongs of whether this is appropriate, but there it is.

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Non-motoring legal advice / GDPR/DPA Question
« on: December 20, 2024, 07:23:08 pm »
I am being asked by a solicitor for information I may have about various people in order to assist their own investigations. I am wondering if I am allowed to divulge such information.

In summary:

My late father owned a rental property. After his death, we (the Executors) served notice on the tenant, who failed to leave and we ended up getting a possession order. So the tenant finally left providing no forwarding address or contact details, and has subsequently passed away, owing us lots in unpaid rent and legal expenses (which are probably unrecoverable). This isn't the actual issue, though!

Now, it turns out the tenant was involved in identity theft, leading to them selling a property they didn't own (using the stolen ID) at well below the actual value to someone who is suspected to be in cahoots with them. The original owner of this property has engaged solicitors to fight to get the property back in their name. Those solicitors have managed to trace me, via my father's rental property address, as someone who may have information that could help them.

They are asking for things like a copy of the tenancy agreement, any details I have of ex-tenant's next of kin, whether there was money owing to us, what aliases the tenant may have used etc. (I think they want to prove a connection between the ex-tenant and the person they sold this other property to.)

While I would like to help, as it's a shocking story, my question as above is am I breaching anyone's privacy in doing so? Clearly the ex-tenant is dead, so they can't complain! But can I provide what little details I have of the next of kin? Or other aliases the ex-tenant used that I am aware of? Providing the tenancy agreement (which names the next of kin as resident at the address) feels a step to far, especially considering the solicitor asking for it is not acting for me or anyone I have any connection with.

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