Help with Court action for Non-Producer

skylight

My BIL has recieved court documents for not producing his documents within 7 days, plus not driving with insurance plus not changing his address on his driving licence.

Very basically, he was stopped whilst driving (legally and with permission his GF's car) by Dorset police in Nov 07 and asked to produce everything at Slough station. He informed the officer who stopped him that as he recently moved he did not have the paper counterpart of his licence but did have the card+ins+MOT and the officer told him to take what he had. Slough station however did not accept just the card. BIL being dyslexic meant that he just did not understand why, couldn't read the forms properly either but made no attempts to ask for help until these court docs arrived last week.

Now, he did have insurance at the time and can prove it so I have told him to plead not guilty to that, but I have told him to plead guilty to the rest - as he did not produce nor change the address (he moved 2 years ago!). He still has to produce and I have ordered for him the other counterpart last week ASAP (cos he still had not done that!)

Now, I understand from checking that he will not get points for the above but will be fined - £1k for not producing and £1k for not changing the address (maximum). But the big question is, does this mean he has a criminal record that would be searchable under a CRB check? It would totally screw up his applications for working at the Airport (although it is his own fault if he does).

Are courts ever lenient for non-producers provided he does this ASAP?

Thanks!

Conor_3

Basically, yes however pretty much everyone disregards motoring offences unless its something like no insurance, fraudulent use of a tax disc etc etc.

I would imagine that he will get off quite lightly. After all, it's not as if he was unlicenced and uninsured.

Are you 100% sure he was insured? Was he a named driver on his GF's policy? If he was driving under "other vehicles" cover on his own policy, many of those now require the vehicle being driven to have a policy in force in its own right so if he was driving it under his insurance and his GF had no insurance on it, he could actually have not been insured depending on the policy - you need to check on that and it'll be in the full T&C of the policy, not the cover note.

skylight

Thanks for that!

He was insured - he GF has fully comp on the car he was driving and he had fully comp too for his own car that gave him third party approval to drive another vehicle. I suppose that to defend the non-insurance bit he will need her insurance too to prove it?