APPROVED DRIVING INSTRUCTORS
Our team of lawyers can assist your legal proceedings relating to your registration as an Approved Driving Instructor. This includes:
- Refusal to issue a Trainee Licence
- Removal of your name from the Register
- Request for representations following complaints and convictions
- Reporting convictions
- Appeals against removal from the Register
- DVSA interview under caution
The Registrar has a duty to ensure that an ADI satisfies the ‘fit and proper person’ test. There is no specific definition of fit and proper, but the Registrar will be concerned with convictions, driving offences, and pupil complaints.
ADIs are expected to follow the voluntary Code of Practice, which covers:
- Personal Conduct
- Business Dealings
- Advertisement
- Conciliation
At Smith Bowyer Clarke, we regularly represent ADIs in interviews under caution with DVSA. We have a successful track record of helping ADIs avoid removal from the Register by drafting written representations to defend or mitigate complaints or offences and demonstrating that the ADI is a fit and proper person.
If you have been served with a Notice of Removal from the Register, you can contest this by lodging an Appeal to the First Tier Tribunal within 28 days. Our lawyers regularly represent instructors on appeal and have successfully overturned decisions, even in cases involving serious convictions.
For advice and representation involving DVSA and the Registrar, call our team today, who will be happy to offer free initial advice.
