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    • Hi All. I was driving in Stevenage down a 40 road.  After coming off the motor way i noticed my car felt a little "weird" so i accelerated, then slowed the car down.  Shortly after i got stopped by a manned police car with a laser. During the stop the officer stated i was doing 54 in a 40, the conversation was short, but he said i would unlikely get a awareness course and it was most likely 3 points and a fine.  Mrs thought it was a good idea to have dairy when she is lactose intollerant on date night, so we just got on our way.  At the time, i didnt admit to the offence, but did say i didnt realise and had slowed down in any case. The officers chest camera was recording and on. At the stop, he asked where to send the fine to, as i knew i would be travelling to visit family up north, i provided my temporary details at that location in Yorkshire. It is now 05/05 and i havent recieved anything at either my home address in Stevenage or the temporary address. 1. Is there a time limit in which paperwork needs to be sent to me. 2. SHould i query the ticket as i dont want to miss any deadlines (if so who do i check with?) OR should i keep queit. 3. Given nothing has arrived in 20 days, is there a chance of appeal if and when it comes through? Many thanks CrazeUK
    • Hi All. A family friends car was having issues when she was on a trip visiting family up north at the begining of January.  She ended up leaving it at my friends garage in the same location, who parked it on his forecourt to investigate the issue, howver he said most likely it is beyond economical repair as its a serious gearbox fault. In the meantime i replaced her car with one of my spare cars. The insurance on the car then expired in at the end of January.  When the insurance expired, I sent a paper V890 paper as i didnt have her V5 Reference number in hand to do it online (i have a copy of this).  She didnt mention she hadnt recieved any confirmation as she didnt know if she would get one.  She then cancelled her road tax at the end of March (i think) as she was paying by DD. She then was travelling up north so didnt get her ,ail until last week. She recievd a letter dated 09/04/2024 stating she had failed to insure the vehcile and there was a £100 fine which could be reduced to £50 if she respons by 11/05/2024.  As soon as we noticed, i got her to dig  out the V5 and SORN'd the vehicle.   My friend has been a bit slow in checking the fault, however i suspect it will still be scrapped and is still on his forecourt. Is this possible to appeal?
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    • Hi All. I went to visit a family friend in Rochdale on a new housing estate opposite a old row of houses. The location is Royle Road, Postcode OL11 3PE. I was originally parked in parking bays outside the old houses, then moved the car, when I noticed my tyre was flat, so parked on what looked like double yellows to use his air pump to check and inflate the tyres before we left the house.   In the time i went inside to sort the pump and power supply i got a PCN.  The tyre then got changed (has a puncture) and we left. PCN Number:         RE######## Date:             04/05/2024 Time:             20:36 Observation:         20:34 to 20:36 Reported location:     Royle Park Road Reason:        Parked in a restricted street during prescribed hours (Code: 01) I believe this PCN is not correct and has grounds to appeal: 1. My friend who moved into the property around 6 months ago, swears that even though it has old double yellows marked, they are not current or council marked.   He said the property development company had said they had marked them for ease of access during development. 2. The road i was parked on was Royle Road.  The PCN was issued for Royle Park Road, which is about 400 yards up the road. 3. There are no sign posts or marking showing parking  restriction hours in the entire area (there maybe on Royle park Road). I have attached a map of the Location where i parked as a red dot. I have 2 questions: a.  Is there a way to check where double yellow lines are marked on some register to check if they are current? b. Can my grounds of appeal simply be, wrong location, wrong offence? Thanks in advance. Map_20240505.pdf
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Update on this case for those that have followed it. The fella from work has withdrawn his statements and is refusing to appear in court. Now the solicitor is having a meeting at the court before the case on the 30th to see if they can get the case thrown out as the dwp based the whole case on this one person from work. We have mountains of medical support so the solicitor is very confident my son will not even have to stand in court now.

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Wishing the best for your son and I hope that the person who has caused this gets kick in the butt for wasting time, costing money, and above all stressing out your son and yourself.......their ignorance is no excuse.

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Wishing the best for your son and I hope that the person who has caused this gets kick in the butt for wasting time, costing money, and above all stressing out your son and yourself.......their ignorance is no excuse.

 

I wonder if they can be reported to the police for harassment?

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I wish so, but I think the law/cost around harassment issues isn't easy to implement. But if this has cost a lot of public money to end up a farce, then something should be done, but unfortunately it probably wont, would be good to see though for once instead of ignorant and or nasty people getting away with it.

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Well I have just had the best news ever, the solicitor has phoned us as she has been in meetings with the cps all morning and the case has been withdrawn. The cps said that he should never have had to go through this after they looked at the defence from doctors. This was done in advance of the trial on Tuesday as it came to light that the dwp had withheld the defence evidence from the cps, so the only reason they had actually decided to prosecute was they thought there was hardly evidence to back up what my son was telling them. The cps were furious with the dwp and the solicitor said she has put in a claim to the courts so he will get some money back in around two months. Just the appeal now but nothing could spoil my day after this. Thankyou all that were there listening and supporting us.

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To be honest, and I work as a fraud investigator, I cant believe that whoever dealt with this case took it forward on the word of one person who your son worked with without any other evidence to confirm what that one person said.

 

In my opinion it puts us investigators in a very bad light when the majority spend there working life trying to be professional, fair and empathetic. Well, I do and I like to think that most others do as well.

 

I have no need to try to prove that someone is being fraudulent when they haven't.

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In my opinion it puts us investigators in a very bad light when the majority spend there working life trying to be professional, fair and empathetic. Well, I do and I like to think that most others do as well.

 

Agreed.

 

This case has been very odd from the start with what appeared to be a fishing IUC with no evidence. Amazingly a solicitor allowed this to go ahead. But then it turned out to be an IUC with video evidence from a possible CHIS & one witness statement from a work colleague. Somehow that ended up with a DLA disallowance & then got to court only for the CPS solicitors to mess up straight away by not understanding the DLA rules. Before finally been thrown out because evidence was withheld.

 

There must be more to it than that.

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Agreed.

 

This case has been very odd from the start with what appeared to be a fishing IUC with no evidence. Amazingly a solicitor allowed this to go ahead. But then it turned out to be an IUC with video evidence from a possible CHIS & one witness statement from a work colleague. Somehow that ended up with a DLA disallowance & then got to court only for the CPS solicitors to mess up straight away by not understanding the DLA rules. Before finally been thrown out because evidence was withheld.

 

There must be more to it than that.

 

 

Yes I think there must be - I have no idea how the DLA DM reached a decision on the stated evidence alone.

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Yes I think there must be - I have no idea how the DLA DM reached a decision on the stated evidence alone.

 

In my experience, sometimes a 'bad' senior decision maker can get fixated on 'getting' a particular claimant. The why's of it escape me and luckily it's rare - it's unusual for it to make it to court though, as someone else will look at the case and bring some sanity to the situation. I've had a few go to to appeal though, with 'tactics' like you wouldn't believe.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office ~ Aesop

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We are just pleased its all over apart from the appeal but, I would never have believed they would have put my son and the rest of us through all of this. We had our first decent nights sleep in a long time last night. I personally believe that some of the decision makers should have some medical knowledge and understand some of these more rare conditions. It became nothing more than a witch hunt and my sons health went rapidly down hill because of it. Thankfully we have a great gp and specialists that look after him. Thanks to everyone that has wished us well.

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