Is an unsigned & unstamped Magistrates Court Summons legal.

A semi literate friend of mine went to court on the wrong date (too late) to defend a parking ticket summons.

When he told me about this later that day he had all the paperwork with him and it is blank as far as to who issued it, it is on headed paper with the Court address and telephone numbers, case number, his name and address, date of birth, that is it, nothing else.

I have gone round in circles for 4 days trying to find out for sure if this summons meets the criteria required as he will appeal if he has a chance to reverse or cancel the MASSIVE fine & costs of over £850.... yes EIGHT HUNDRED + for breaking down on double yellow lines.

The actual charge was :-Allowed a motor vehicle ................... to wait on a road, namely ............. when waiting was prohibited.

It all started when his car was broken down and he was waiting for a tow and told a Warden as much and showed him all the oil that had been dumped by his car on the road.

The warden still issued the ticket, unfortunately my friend ate it (his passive protest).

His car was subsequently towed away with the aid of a friend.

Can anyone give advice on the required format of a summons please.

Thanks in advance

Mike

Hi

I have moved your thread to a more appropriate forum were you will get the best advice from the motoring experts.

Please continue to post here to your thread.

Regards

Andy

Thank you Andy,

I felt I was in the right place as the post, although as a result of parking, it was primarily about the format of a Magistrates Court Summons (signature/stamp)and Appealing.

I thought legal would have been the more appropriate place to post.

Thanks

Mike

Possibly but this forum should have more posters who are familiar with errors in documentation..can always move you back if you dont get any advice here.

Please coukd you scan the documents into a multi page pdf and upload them without any identifying info?

You would normally expect any official court documents to be stamped by the issuing court.

The pages in the pdf are not very good quality as I photographed them for my own use, if you require better quality I will take some tomorrow when I see him next

Thanks

mike

Court Summons1.pdf

There is a blanked out case number, ring the court concerned and check the validity of the summons.