Consider speaking to Mags Clerks Officxe and see if they will waive the 21 day rule. One never knows and especially if you can convince them it must have been someone else they have been dealing with.

If no deal then explore though free soliitors advice session taking a civil claim through small claims court - Debt collectors and Mags Court.

dvd

In any situation there are nearly always lots of so-called friends anxious to dipense advice, which often does not come from any expertise or experience and is nearer to wishful thinking than anything else - or it's the first thing that comes to their mind. Some people just love to appear an expert (which reminds me of another, astronautical, thread).

It even happens on some internet forums - though obviously never on this one. Ahem...

Legally, each of us is responsible for our own actions or omissions, as in the OP's case, but I do feel very sorry for him and hope he gets it sorted out.

Glad CAB could help you. Suspect person you've seen today did what's called a Gateway interview. Intention is to understand full scope of your problem and decide whether to provide assistance via AB website, singpost to another body or refer for full advice.

Looks like they went for third option here.

Good luck

Hi experts,

I been to Citizen Advice bureau and they tell me to contact with solicitors. But the solicitor suggested since it has nothing to do with criminal so I should contact with magistrates court fine matters. Tomorrow i have an appointment with Oxford Magistrate court.Could you please advise me how should I explain the matter. Also will this fine matter affect my status. Will there be any CCJ against me if the magistrates doesn't take case based on 21 days rule. Please please advice.

Many thanks

Many thanks. Yes I have both the collectica letters sent to me and the warrant letter pix shot as the officer didn't give it to me. So I took pix and printed. And the payment receipt. I will take all this along with me.

The court staff are Civil Servants working for Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service. They cannot give you legal advice but will be able to explain the process to apply to have the fine set aside. If there are any official forms involved they will be able to supply these or tell you where you can download them.

Further up the thread you mentioned a statutory declaration. This probably means you will need to a statement of the facts concerning the fine and how it and the courts order only came to your notice when the debt collectors called. You will need to sign that as an oath or affirmation in front of either a solicitor or the district judge. It may be that judge has delegated his powers to an approved member of staff in which case you can probably do it at the court counter.

It's clear you're not a UK national. The court or solicitor will explain how to take an oath appropriate to your religion but it's probably easier to do what Brits who have no religious belief do and make an affirmation. It doesn't matter which, the point is you're making what is in effect a statement of evidence and if you state someting knowing it to be wholly or partly untrue you commit the offence of perjury.

Hi all,

Many thanks for all your suggestions. I been to court today and made the state declaration and told everything to magistrates. The magistrates open a new case for pleaded not guilty. They also knows it's not me as my birthday also doesn't match. Have signed my statement as well. Hopefully things will be settle very soon now. Will update as soon as I hear something from them.

A few months ago my son had a similar problem, DVLA put 6 points on his licence for failing to name the driver for a speeding offence in a part of the UK he'd never been to.

Letters to DVLA and to the Court finally established that the Court had not given the correct offender's name and address to DVLA, all was sorted within a few days.

All organisations have problems from time to time especially when they are as big and have as many people and cars to deal with as the DVLA. All it needs is soemone to input a wrong letter or number into a database and the wrong person gets issued with a fine.

But if you don't ignore the letter there is a better than good chance you will get the issue sorted before it escalates. I did when I was issued with a fine for not declaring SORN. Simply coppied them the form I sent for refund of tax with SORN box ticked and they apologised and the fine was revoked.

Ignoring the letters is the one thing the OP did wrong but hopefully things will be corrected now.

Dear Galileo, I sent letter to dvla on 10th by recorded delivery and still waiting for response. In your son's case how long it took for sorted. I also didn't hear anything from the court as well. Could you please tell me is there anything else I need to do.

The tenth is only just over a week ago and the post is rammed with christmas mail. DVLA Swansea is one of the biggest mailroom operations in Europe handling hundreds of thousands of items a week.

IIRC once openend and after fees sorted and acounted for they scan documentation and allocate workflows to staff electronically. By time your mail was in somebody's workflow it was probably into week commencing 15/12 and this isn't routine stuff - it'll need to be investigated by an experienced member of staff.

I wouldn't be too agitated if you don't hear from them until new year.

If the court are being asked to deal with a statutory declaration and to re-open a decided case then that's probably 'box work' for a District Judge. Again there will be a queue for his/her attention and Xmas holidays are on us.

Don't let either issue ride for too long but as above it's realistically going to be into January before you hear.

Dear Galileo, I sent letter to dvla on 10th by recorded delivery and still waiting for response. In your son's case how long it took for sorted. I also didn't hear anything from the court as well. Could you please tell me is there anything else I need to do.

This was around July; I think it took a couple of weeks from my posting letters (first class AND recorded delivery) to DVLA and the court for DVLA to remove the points and send a letter explaining they'd had incorrect info from the court.