Partner just told me about £1k fine

[Ontherocksthisyear]

So my partners just nonchalantly told me he is in online court tomorrow to dispute a speeding fine. He said he told me about this fine, just before Christmas. I assumed it was about £50 so didn't really enter into much conversation about it. He's said it was £1k, which he failed to add when he originally told me. Maybe my fault for not asking at the time. We share a house together of 3 years and have an 8 month old DS. I am now pretty angry that he has only now just told me about the fine being £1k and that he's in court tomorrow. He's known this court date for 2 weeks apparently. AIBU here? He doesn't see why I am angry and said he wouldn't have been of it was the other way around and I'd of just told him this.

How come it's as much as £1,000? That doesn't sound like 36 in a 30 limit. I don't think YABU to have expected to know about it before now.

Something doesn't add up here. A 'standard' fine for speeding is £100. If he's been fined a thousand and has to go to court, that suggests he's either avoided paying the fine and he's got costs added on, or he's committed a particularly serious speeding offence. He's trying to minimise and deflect

I understood it that the courts tell you what the fine is? Why is he going to court if he has already been fined £1000. That’s also a very steep amount which suggests he was going a lot over the speed limit or it’s for another driving offence. Think there may be more to this story he hasn’t told you.

He didn't see the original letter so I think he failed to pay the original payment within the set time.

I've been done twice for speeding (not proud) but each time was a £100 fine and you got around 28 days each time to fill all the paperwork in. https://www.gov.uk/speeding-penalties he's not telling you the whole story here.

He said the 1k was taken straight from him wages after failing to pay the original fine payment. Paperwork was sent to old address. He is in court to dispute the £1k they took out of his wages.

OP it wouldn't be 1k even if he didn't pay initially. The fine increases but not by tenfold. He's not telling you the truth.

If paperwork was sent to his old address, has he not updated his details with the DVLA? you can get a 1k fine for not having correct address on license

I do know the paperwork was sent to his old address. So he isn't being sneaky. He just didn't think it important to tell me any of this until now? Only because I asked if there was any happening tomorrow

So it doesn't sound like the 1k was a speeding fine but some sort of failure to pay penalty and/or costs maybe?

He definitely has his correct address on it now as I saw it the other day. Whether this was correct before Christmas when he received the fine im unsure. I think he's only just updated it

Straight from his wages?....that's extremely unlikely

Does he have other children, could it be for non-payment of Child maintenance you aren't aware of? That might be taken from income.

I do know the paperwork was sent to his old address.

Any speeding notice automatically goes to the address where the car is registered.

As @Spanielsanddaughters says upthread, the only reason the notice could go to his old address is that he hadn't updated his address with the DVLA, which attracts a £1,000 fine.

OP, time to wake up.

It doesn't jump from £100 to £1000. He's lying.

If the fine was taken straight from his wages, surely he would have had to have filled out an attachment of earnings form or similar? Something isn’t adding up here…

There’s a reason he didn’t tell you. It’s not something that just slips your mind!

So he’s lying about something…

I hate doing this but this

The man is telling porkies and has quite the brass neck for disputing the speeding fine on the grounds of it going to the wrong address when the fine concerned is for not giving them the correct address ASAP.

So the fine was from 3 years ago. The paper work was getting sent to this old address which he hadn't updated to the DVLA, therefore built up to a £1000. Just had a massive arguement over it. Resulted in him asking 'did it affect you? No, then my business is my business'. I'm pretty upset and don't know how to take that.

Sorry but I think you need to rethink your relationship.

When did he move? Failure to update registration details is an offence in itself, if that is why it went to old address. Had he acted quickly he may have had a driving awareness course instead of fine and points,

OK, so a speeding fine can escalate to £1000 so he could well find himself fined twice.

www.gov.uk/speeding-penalties

So he hadn't updated the vehicle registration documents, he must have realised he wasn't getting car tax reminders

If you're the kind of person not to update the address, how on earth would you notice not getting tax reminders?
Also mine are emailed now anyway.