Hiya Well, thanks everyone for your responses. I guess I was kinda hoping that, as at the time of the offence I couldn't physically have the disc in the car, due to the fact that the DVLA had issued the requested duplicate just five hours before I was ticketed, and had put it in the post, that I could use this as a reasonable defence. Going to pay up and shut up, though am really annoyed with myself and my hubby, lol, for not noticing sooner. The car had not been parked on a public road in all the time since the renewal, so would have not been been noticed before - typical that it was my turn to be the nominated "sober one" and drive to the one pub that didn't have a car park more fool me, eh Cheers Myfanwy

Hi there everyone, be grateful if someone could give me their opinion on whether i should apply for a court hearing request in connection with a fixed penalty notice I received last week. We renewed our tax in March this year a week early, over the internet. The disc duly arrived and was plonked in the lobby for whoever went out next to pop it in the windscreen. Well I thought hubby had done it, he thought I'd done it, but it turns out neither of us did, and we must have lost the disc. As soon as we realised (two weeks ago) we sent off the correct form with our £7 for a duplicate to our local DVLA office. A few days later, on 23 June we received a ticket in the evening from a PCSO whilst parked on a residential street in a nearby city. The following day, guess what drops through the door....yeah, the replacement disc. With the disc was the receipt showing that the new disc was issued 6 hours before the ticket was slapped on the windscreen. We have obviously kept the receipt, along with the envelope that is franked the same day as the ticket was issued. The thing is, if I take the option of a court hearing, is this likely to be favourable? I know we never noticed the missing disc for two months, but as soon as we did we tried to sort it. I'm very green in issues like this, I've never had a ticket for anything like this before, so would appreciate any input. The penalty is for £60, but with the form that came with the disc it said failure to display fines could be up to £200.... Thanks for reading this Myfanwy