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I sent you an email a while back over DVLA trying to take me to court because they hadn't received a change of ownership on a vehicle. You sent me a reply from one of your readers saying providing an affidavit to prove posting is sufficient to stop action. DVLA has obviously now moved on from this, having sent me a letter stating “The Interpretation Act is specific in that the relevant person had to deliver the documents rather than serve or merely send them in the post....we will set another date to allow a full trial to be heard.” It just beggars belief that DVLA can behave in this way. Does this mean that every letter sent to them personally has to be hand delivered to the Secretary of State for transport and that a lost letter results in a £1,000 fine and criminal record? Am I the first person in the country the DVLA is taking to a full trial over a lost V5?

Asked on 22 August 2009 by

Answered by Honest John
I don't know, but please keep me informed. If you lose your case we might be able to campaign for a fighting fund to take your case to appeal and establish a legal precedent that the public actually wants. I cannot believe that the public in general agrees that its servants should penalise and criminalise them for a V5 either lost in the post or lost by the DVLA within its system.
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