Hi, My oap neighbour has asked me fot help and i dont know what to say? Their old car tax run out on 31/10/12 so it was parked at the rear of our property - off road and sorn sent off a few days later. On 07/11/12 the car was put on a wide pavement layby at the front of the property for it to be collected and moved to a different storage area for longer term. The lane at the back is very narrow, inaccessible and dead end, and the side street a total nightmare with double parking, dead end and awkward shaped so you cant tow a vehicle out or get a lorry down it to have towed their car out so had to be brought to main road to be collected. It was not on the main road for 30 minutes maximum, while waiting for the tow truck. However, typically a PCSO passed and booked it, literally 3 minutes after it was to be picked up. My neighbour is not used to dealing with things like this, suffers depression and had no idea what to do so left the paperwork that she had from dvla about the fine. Now this court case papers arrived this morning, and the court date is on 5 June and she has a medical appointment which she has been waiting for a few months to arrive. i have scanned and uploaded to photobucket so will try to upload them here. now, she is guilty of the fact the vehicle was on the road for the 30mins, but was doing it as an emergency and very temporary basis to allow it to be removed for storage and had no way of getting it moved any other way, and certainly not from where it was. however, can these be classed as mitigating circumstances? if so, how can she plead, guilty or not? really lost with this 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

I have finally re built my Celica after being stripped down to the shell. I never declared it SORN as I thought with the car being in bits it was not road worthy so I didnt see the need to SORN it. Will I be prosecuted if so how much ???

Hi guys, I'm posting as I have a SORN problem which I hope you can help with. (I've seen you give advice to individuals in similar situations, so fingers crossed.) I have an old Triumph Herald which has been laid up by my garage since the end of 1997 (It's been in need of some TLC and restoration, which I have never got around to). Prior to that it was used on the road and was taxed. Now here's the issue I have- the car has not been declared as SORN since then. I have now decided that I won't restore it, so I am looking to sell/scrap it- but before that I will need to get the reg docs up to date. I have carried out a vehicle enquiry on the DVLA website, and it states that the Date of Liability was 01 10 1998. This was the date when the road tax expired (I didn't request a road tax refund when the vehicle stopped running in 1997). I am concerned that if I declare the vehicle as SORN now, it will prompt the DVLA to issue a penalty for the years that the vehicle was un-SORNed (all 14 of them!). At the moment, it appears that the DVLA have 'forgotten' about the vehicle. So I am worried that by contacting them it will prompt a huge bill- when all I want to do is scrap the vehicle. On the DVLA website it states "Vehicles which have been kept off-road since before SORN came into force on 31 January 1998 are exempt from this law" Can anyone clarify on this point? The vehicle was off the road before this date, so in theory I am okay, but I feel that they will take the date when the tax ran out, which is after the deadline- In which case I am in danger of being fined. Many thanks in advance.