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Summons Advice

  • 12-12-2013 11:20am
    #1
    Mrs W
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 307 ✭✭


    Hi All
    Not sure if this is the right place so move if needed.

    OH was stopped for no tax by a guard a while back. The guard asked him for his licence which he gave him and then looked at the windscreen. The tax was out so he told him a fine would be issued and that was it.

    A few weeks later he got the fine and paid it. A few weeks after that he got 5 summons for no licence, not producing a licence, failing to produce it within 10 days, no insurance and failing to produce it within 10 days.

    He has a licence and valid insurance, we live 2 mins from the Garda station so if he had been asked to produce them then he would have.

    He's been trying to call the guard to explain this but cant get hold of him.
    The court date is next week and if he has to take a day off work (which wont go down well with them) we're down €200 the week before christmas and then have to fork out for a solicitor too.

    Any advice? Does he need a solicitor or would it look bad if he represented himself?


Comments

  • #2
    djimi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,237 ✭✭✭✭djimi


    He really needs to keep trying to get hold of that Garda. A mistake has been made on their part somewhere along the way.


  • #3
    Anan1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    If he had a license and valid insurance at the time he was stopped then he won't need a solicitor - showing the license and insurance cert to the judge will be enough. I'd talk to whoever's in charge at the station, although I'd be a little worried about not showing up in court even with the agreement of the Garda. Could someone else go to court in his place? I've done this before and there was no problem.


  • #4
    Mrs W
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 307 ✭✭Mrs W


    I could go in his place but we're afraid if he didnt go or didnt have a solicitor then he might get a fine? (he might get one anyway) Its so bloody stupid and who knows what way the judge would take it.

    I'd hate to and speak on his behalf and get a fine and then wonder if he'd had a solicitor it might have been thrown out?


  • #5
    Anan1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    Mrs W wrote: »
    I could go in his place but we're afraid if he didnt go or didnt have a solicitor then he might get a fine? (he might get one anyway) Its so bloody stupid and who knows what way the judge would take it.

    I'd hate to and speak on his behalf and get a fine and then wonder if he'd had a solicitor it might have been thrown out?
    If you turn up with his drivers license and insurance cert and a good reason why you're there in his place then I'd be 99% certain the case would be thrown out.


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