Below are the details of what happened.
My girlfriend received a fine in the post for parking illegaly on a road in Dun Laoghaire. The date of the alledged incident was 2nd March 2007.
However, as she lives on the other side of the city and is very rarely in the Dun Laoghaire area she is adamant that the Guard must have taken down the wrong reg number.
She wrote a letter to the Guard who issued the ticket stating that she was nowhere near the Dun Laoghaire area on that date. Stupidly she never kept of copy of the letter. I have given her awful grief for not holding a copy.
Anyway she heard nothing else about this issue until last Monday 9th June when a summons arrived. She is due in court next Monday 16th June. However the issue date on the summons is 3rd December 2007.
She rang the Superindentant of the station this morning and he had a look at the file. He said that the car in question had been parked illegally in Dun Laoghaire for 3 days in a row and that is why the Guard issued the ticket. This confirms that it definitely was not her car.
My questions are:
Why did she not receive the summons until now? Does she not need a months notice before a court date?
Should the Guard have responded to her letter to let her know more about the issue? As he is a Traffic Guard he was impossible to contact by phone after numerous attempts and leaving her number with the station
Does she have to show up in court next monday?
My girlfriend received a fine in the post for parking illegaly on a road in Dun Laoghaire. The date of the alledged incident was 2nd March 2007.
However, as she lives on the other side of the city and is very rarely in the Dun Laoghaire area she is adamant that the Guard must have taken down the wrong reg number.
She wrote a letter to the Guard who issued the ticket stating that she was nowhere near the Dun Laoghaire area on that date. Stupidly she never kept of copy of the letter. I have given her awful grief for not holding a copy.
Anyway she heard nothing else about this issue until last Monday 9th June when a summons arrived. She is due in court next Monday 16th June. However the issue date on the summons is 3rd December 2007.
She rang the Superindentant of the station this morning and he had a look at the file. He said that the car in question had been parked illegally in Dun Laoghaire for 3 days in a row and that is why the Guard issued the ticket. This confirms that it definitely was not her car.
My questions are:
Why did she not receive the summons until now? Does she not need a months notice before a court date?
Should the Guard have responded to her letter to let her know more about the issue? As he is a Traffic Guard he was impossible to contact by phone after numerous attempts and leaving her number with the station
Does she have to show up in court next monday?