I'm looking for some advice here. The situation is this:
I was disqualified from driving for 6 months in January this year after I totted up to 12 points.
Then in February I got a letter from the speed camera partnership saying that one of the offences on my license was invalid due to the camera being uncalibrated or some such. Everyone who was done by that camera over a given period is to have the points removed and the fine refunded.
OK good, but I'm now disqualified.
I've made numerous phone calls and letters to the DVLA, who told me that if I sent them the details/paperwork they would overturn the ban. I sent my stuff off and they came back and said they couldnt do it after all, I'd have to take it up with the court that disqualified me.
I eventually managed to get in contact with the court who said I needed to go through the speed camera partnership.
I got in touch with the SCP who passed me on to the fixed penalty manager.
I wrote to the fixed penalty manager who sent my details to the court.
I then received a letter last week from the court saying that the magistrates will look at my details on the 8th may and 'consider re-opening the case'. To me that says that on the 8th all they are going to do is decide whether or not to bother looking into it at a later date.
Now, it's looking like by the time I get my license back the disqualification will have run its course anyway, but I still want to do this because I'll then not have a ban on my license.
That's all well and good, but I lost my job because I couldn't get there, and I ended up moving to the other side of the country to take a different job. Add to that the fact that I have been unable to pursue my personal pastimes/interests without the use of a car, the insurance that I've paid out for but am not using, the time I've wasted on the phone and writing letters, the sheer frustration of it all and so on
Now, I hate claim culture as much as the next man but I definitely think I'm entitled to compensation from the speed camera partnership for all this.
The CAB said to write to the insurance section of the speed camera partnership telling them the situation and see what they come back with.
Does anyone here have any experience of what (and how much) I should be looking to claim for?
I was disqualified from driving for 6 months in January this year after I totted up to 12 points.
Then in February I got a letter from the speed camera partnership saying that one of the offences on my license was invalid due to the camera being uncalibrated or some such. Everyone who was done by that camera over a given period is to have the points removed and the fine refunded.
OK good, but I'm now disqualified.
I've made numerous phone calls and letters to the DVLA, who told me that if I sent them the details/paperwork they would overturn the ban. I sent my stuff off and they came back and said they couldnt do it after all, I'd have to take it up with the court that disqualified me.
I eventually managed to get in contact with the court who said I needed to go through the speed camera partnership.
I got in touch with the SCP who passed me on to the fixed penalty manager.
I wrote to the fixed penalty manager who sent my details to the court.
I then received a letter last week from the court saying that the magistrates will look at my details on the 8th may and 'consider re-opening the case'. To me that says that on the 8th all they are going to do is decide whether or not to bother looking into it at a later date.
Now, it's looking like by the time I get my license back the disqualification will have run its course anyway, but I still want to do this because I'll then not have a ban on my license.
That's all well and good, but I lost my job because I couldn't get there, and I ended up moving to the other side of the country to take a different job. Add to that the fact that I have been unable to pursue my personal pastimes/interests without the use of a car, the insurance that I've paid out for but am not using, the time I've wasted on the phone and writing letters, the sheer frustration of it all and so on
Now, I hate claim culture as much as the next man but I definitely think I'm entitled to compensation from the speed camera partnership for all this.
The CAB said to write to the insurance section of the speed camera partnership telling them the situation and see what they come back with.
Does anyone here have any experience of what (and how much) I should be looking to claim for?