Major Problem!!

SusanG123_2

Hi,

We moved house in 2015, and it seems that both of us didn't know that we needed to update our V5'S - stupid in hindsight!!

However, my other half also scrapped his car at the end of 2015 and didn't send off the little slip telling them that there was new registered owners. We have now had a letter from a debt collector wanting £650

After speaking to lots of different people it seems the DVLA are coming after having a car with no insurance for a year and a half. We obviously didn't receive any of the letters due to moving and not telling them. It seems he was summoned to court last September which he was unaware of

Whats the worse and best case scenario on this??

Not only did we not notify of address, we didn't update the registered keeper, it also looks like we have ignored a court summons

Typing this out it sounds horrendous!

agrinnall

Can't tell you what the worst case will be, although I doubt if it would be good (hopefully it won't come to that). But as you seem to have forgotten everything else can I suggest that you check that you have updated the address on your driving licences?

SusanG123_2

Yes we did our driving licenses, we didn't forgot, we just didn't know or check our V5's

Billy_Bullocks

SusanG123 wrote: »

Yes we did our driving licenses, we didn't forgot, we just didn't know or check our V5's

When you say you scrapped the car, was it still driveable?

All it takes is two speed cameras and your other half could be disqualified from driving by now.

SusanG123_2

It was something to do with the engine, the company who took it from us had to tow it. It would have cost us too much to repair it and it had done nearly 100k miles so we had run it into the ground. Not to say someone couldn't have gone to the bother of putting it back on the road.

He already has one speeding offence but did the course rather than take the points

Car_54

Others may offer different advice, but ...

Best case: Your OH can make a statutory declaration to the court which convicted him, which effectively cancels the conviction and the court starts again. (AFAIK he has 21 days to do this from becoming aware of the conviction.) He can then try to convince the court that there were mitigating circumstances, which will be difficult, and probably wouldn't reduce the fine by much. Possibly better just to pay up before the debt collector's fees increase.

Worst case: you both have multiple convictions for failing to respond to NIPs which you've been unaware of.

DoaM

A musing ... why is a person trace only done AFTER a conviction/court case? If someone doesn't respond to a claim/summons then surely it is probable that the claim/summons hasn't been received?

(This is not to excuse the OP from their failings - if they'd taken the proper actions in the first place then none of this would have happened).

To the OP - I'd suggest just sucking it up and paying the £650 (as long as that is the end of it). If you try to pursue it further then you may end up with much higher fines.

Billy_Bullocks

[quote=[Deleted User];72068179]Others may offer different advice, but ...

Best case: Your OH can make a statutory declaration to the court which convicted him, which effectively cancels the conviction and the court starts again. (AFAIK he has 21 days to do this from becoming aware of the conviction.) He can then try to convince the court that there were mitigating circumstances, which will be difficult, and probably wouldn't reduce the fine by much. Possibly better just to pay up before the debt collector's fees increase.

Worst case: you both have multiple convictions for failing to respond to NIPs which you've been unaware of.[/QUOTE]

How could both have multiple convictions?

It would only be the registered keeper.

agrinnall

Billy_Bullocks wrote: »

How could both have multiple convictions?

It would only be the registered keeper.

They both had cars that they failed to update the V5Cs for.

Billy_Bullocks

agrinnall wrote: »

They both had cars that they failed to update the V5Cs for.

Oh well the scrap car has unlikely generated any speeding fines.

giraffe69

Why didn't post get forwarded? Surely the forwarding service was used?