Case study 2 - Pleading guilty at Court
The client appeared before the Courts in January 2008 relating to an offence of failing to provide driver details (she had provided the details but they were just outside the required period). She appeared at Court and entered her guilty plea and submitted her driving licence to the Court.
The Court advised her that they would be endorsing her licence, providing her with a total of six points. The client asked the Court as to whether her licence would be revoked, as she had been driving less than two years. The client was told by the Magistrates that they didn't know, this would be down to the DVLA.
Ten days later she received her licence back along with the counterpart which had been endorsed, but there was nothing on it to state that her licence had been revoked. There was no correspondence and she therefore assumed that it had come back from the DVLA and had not been revoked.
In March 2006 the client had moved to a new address but had not amended the address on her driving licence. However, in March 2007 she had purchased her car and registered that to the new address. When she attended at Court, she gave her new address.
Following her attendance at Court, the Court provided details of the endorsement to the DVLA via their electronic system including her new address, driver number and type of driving licence produced to the Court. The DVLA stated that they had received the driver number only and no new address details. The DVLA, therefore, wrote to the client's old address advising her that her licence had been revoked - she was completely unaware of this.
The client was subsequently stopped by a police officer and was prosecuted for driving without a licence and also for no insurance. Her car was seized and subsequently crushed. She still has to make payments for the vehicle.
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