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NIP with wrong surname, name.
By: spiderman01 Date: December 8, 2025, 10:54 am
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Hi everyone,
I have a double barrel surname and the letter I have received
shows the surname with only the first part of my surname and the
forename with the second part of my surname and my forename. The
police officer filled the paperwork after I showed him my
driver's licence. Do I have any chance of fighting this offence
successfully? Also, I would like to complete the speed awareness
course but I worry this name/surname mix-up will complicate
things up. These are the details of the NIP: OFFENCE DETAILS
Location: WINDSOR ROAD, SLOUGH, BERKSHIRE
Offence date/time:
Issued by: xxxxxxxx
Offence: Speeding - exceed 30mph on RESTRICTED road in England
(system of street lighting placed not more than two hundred
yards apart)
Code: RR84706
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Re: NIP with wrong surname, name.
By: Southpaw82 Date: December 8, 2025, 11:00 am
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Presumably if the police officer filled it in then you were
warned at the time that you might be prosecuted. So no written
NIP is required at all. That being said, an error in your name
shouldn’t stop you being offered a SAC.
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Re: NIP with wrong surname, name.
By: spiderman01 Date: December 8, 2025, 11:08 am
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I have been offered a speed awareness course but I'm afraid that
when I send/complete my details with the course provider, the
mix-up will come up and complicate things up.
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Re: NIP with wrong surname, name.
By: andy_foster Date: December 8, 2025, 11:10 am
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So, if your name was Mr Desperately Grasps-Atstraws, but it was
addressed somewhat unconventionally as Mr [surname:] Atstraws,
[Forname(s):] Desperately Grasps?
In other words it has your complete and reasonably unambiguous
name, clearly intended for you (even without knowing that it was
for you due to having been stopped by the occifer and warned at
the time that you might be prosecuted), and you want to know if
the formatting of your name in this "letter" (which the thread
title suggests might be a NIP - even though no NIP is required
due to you having been warned at the time that you might be
prosecuted) somehow gives you a get out of jail free card?
Whilst it is perhaps better to ask on the off-chance there there
might somehow be a defence in there, than to miss a viable
defence due to assuming that it's too far-fetched to even bother
asking the question - I regret to inform you that there is no
such thing as a Nobel Prize for Optimism.
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Re: NIP with wrong surname, name.
By: andy_foster Date: December 8, 2025, 11:12 am
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If a problem occurs, you could try talking to them. If not, I'm
struggling to see what you expect us to advise with regards to
some unspecified problem that might conceivably require
addressing at some point in the future.
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Re: NIP with wrong surname, name.
By: spiderman01 Date: December 8, 2025, 11:42 am
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I'm not expecting to be advised of anything. I'm just asking a
question because as you have already noticed, I do not know
anything about this particular topic. Perhaps there was
something related to a point of law or a regulation that
required the correct details to be written in the notice of
intended protection. But I can see that is not the case. Thanks.
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