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Single Justice Procedure Notice - Time to get to court
By: Seatonwills Date: December 12, 2025, 8:01 am
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Hi all,
First post, please bear with me.
My mum, who's 73, got a speeding fine in July, she paid it and
thought it was done, but evidentially, she didn;t send the
details part back. She's had the fine refunded and a few pages
of stuff to fill out now.
Can I ask if there is anything in terms of a time limit, like
how long they have to either get her to court, or does the
process start as soon as the NIP is sent?
Also, she's panicking about filling the forms in, as she doesn't
know it all, is it acceptable to put "don't know" or "can't
remember"?
Thanks
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Re: Single Justice Procedure Notice - Time to get to court
By: andy_foster Date: December 12, 2025, 8:20 am
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Court proceedings must be instigated within 6 months of the date
of offence. This means that the SJPN and Written Charge must be
issued by that date. They are generally served a few weeks
later, after the get round to collating the initial evidence
bundle.
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Re: Single Justice Procedure Notice - Time to get to court
By: Seatonwills Date: December 12, 2025, 9:18 am
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Thank you. Looks like she's going to have to go then.
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Re: Single Justice Procedure Notice - Time to get to court
By: NewJudge Date: December 12, 2025, 9:28 am
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She will not have to attend court. The SJPN gives her three
choices:
1. Plead guilty and do not attend court
2. Plead guilty and attend court
3. Plead not guilty
Her attendance is unlikely to make any significant difference to
the outcome so unless she particularly wants to attend she can
choose option 1.
She should respond to the SJPN by pleading guilty. In the
"mitigation" section she can ask the court to consider
sentencing her at the fixed penalty equivalent (£100 and 3
points). Magistrates have guidance to suggest they should
consider doing this in some circumstances:
“Where a penalty notice could not be offered or taken up for
reasons unconnected with the offence itself, such as
administrative difficulties outside the control of the offender,
the starting point should be a fine equivalent to the amount of
the penalty and no order of costs should be imposed. The
offender should not be disadvantaged by the unavailability of
the penalty notice in these circumstances.”
Though it was her fault that the matter had to proceed to court,
she may encounter a kindly Single Justice who will cut her some
slack. Otherwise she will be sentenced in accordance with the
normal sentencing guidelines.
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Re: Single Justice Procedure Notice - Time to get to court
By: roythebus Date: December 12, 2025, 11:25 am
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Did your mum just get the "speeding fine" or did she get a s172
notice to name the driver? If she got that and failed to respond
that can carry a fine of up to £1000 and 6 points; with that she
may also have had a "speeding ticket". What exactly did she get?
It ay be the typicl case where the s172 didn't get sent back,
she sees the "speeding ticket", pays that, that gets sent back
and she ends up with 2 charges. It usually ends with a plea
baragain as we see on here quite often.
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Re: Single Justice Procedure Notice - Time to get to court
By: Seatonwills Date: December 12, 2025, 11:44 am
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Thank you. Good she doesn't need actually attend. My brothers
trying to help her with the forms now, apparently she has to
fill out loads of stuff about income and assets etc. Shes
retired and doesn't have an income except for her pension
Do you know what the fine levels are?
Thank you
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Re: Single Justice Procedure Notice - Time to get to court
By: Seatonwills Date: December 12, 2025, 11:45 am
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As far as I know it was a normal speeding fine. Thats what all
the paperwork says.
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Re: Single Justice Procedure Notice - Time to get to court
By: andy_foster Date: December 12, 2025, 11:54 am
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[quote author=Seatonwills link=topic=9124.msg102219#msg102219
date=1765561457]
Do you know what the fine levels are?
[/quote]
They are in bands according to the speed and speed limit -
details that you have decided not to trouble us with.
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