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A crushing blow
Terminus:
--- Quote from: "drmike" ---You don't get the reminder early enough to have the form to take to the PO - a lot of older people rely on the reminder.
Untaxed non SORN on provate land still an offence I thought.
I have to say we are counting angels dancing on the head of a pin here. But I am trying to suggest that even in this case it's not black and white.
Mike
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Like anything owning a car has it's responsibilities and we all forget from time to time but its a disk on your car - it tells you when it runs out it's not that hard to make arrangements, whether that be tax it early or if in doubt call the DVLA they'll tell you the best options - the sorn etc isn't a few days over it's normally about a month I believe so if you're going away for a month you really should be checking - after all you wouldn't forget to lock your house when you were away.
You could say that of anything oh I forgot to insure it again - or I forgot to reapply for my licence when it expired but sadly that doesn't make it right. Would you say you forgot you shouldn't have used your mobile phone (I've seen people try it) or I forgot I had to put the seatbelt on my child.
Yep it can seem unfair but thats the law and it's there because the govt we (or the majority) voted in created it. If I forgot was an acceptable defence it would set a very dangerous precedent. :shock:
Life ain't perfect - if it was I'd be on a beach in the Bahamas with my yaught moored off the bay and drinking a cold alcoholic drink with a bathing beauty next to me 8) :lol: :lol:
drmike:
--- Quote from: att ---I don`t suppose there is a place that you can look up all the laws of the land is there?.....On the net especially.
I mean a definitive interpretation of said laws.
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That's a good one. If such a thing existed then many lawyers and barristers would be out of work!
Definitive/law - in the same sentence?
Mike
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http://www.opsi.gov.uk/legislation/about_legislation.htm - the link to the govt site where laws can be found in date ordered lists or you can use the search to find specific legislation
e.g. Road Traffic Act 1988
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1988/Ukpga_19880052_en_1.htm
Edit - it does make for hard reading but once you get used to reading 'legalise' it's not too bad :shock: :lol: just read slow and re read a lot ..... law was never a simple thing sadly.
Skibum346:
--- Quote from: "Bob696" ---
--- Quote ---and not having the Legal documentation for the vehicle
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I had the legel documentation for my peugot 205
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Wasn't it the council who had towed away and crushed your car?
Diffirenet circumstances and as my old maths teacher used to say, you can't compare apples and oranges.
Skibum
Skibum346:
--- Quote from: "Bob696" ---
--- Quote ---No when you are proven guilty it is for reasons
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But nobody has proven you guilty, someone has decided your are guilty. There is a BIG difference
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You have proven you guilty by failing to supply the necessary documentation... surely?
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