DVSA staff caught lying to ADIs again

Lovejoy must be on holiday, but we've caught Eric and Tinker in an outright lie, telling ADIs they cannot use tablets to mark a mock test.

They've both been claiming (not for the first time) that section 110 of the Construction and Use Act, prohibits the use of "technology" when supervising a learner driver.

Even a DVSA employee could disprove this instantly by just googling the law. - To save you the time the link is here:

www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2695/made 

Section 110 specifically relates to "Mobile Phones" and also "A  device, other than a two-way radio, which performs an interactive communication function by transmitting and receiving data". 

The word "Technology" doesn't even appear in the entire law!

What's more the recent court case of Director of Public Prosecutions v Barreto 2019 EWHC 2044, definitively established that you must be using a device for an "interactive communications" function for it to be an offence. 

There is no offence of a supervising driver holding or using "technology".

We would expect that Agency responsible for regulating the sector should know the relevant law, but it appears that Eric and Tinker are either liars (and so as civil servants, deliberately misleading the public we call for them to be investigated for misconduct in a public office) or are they are incompetent. 

We call on the DVSA to admit it has been deliberately misrepresenting the state of the law to ADIs that pay to be on the register, and demand to know why.

Either way, this is yet another reason to add to the long list, for a full and independent investigation into the DVSA, its management and its future.

Please continue to share this petition so that finally they will be brought to account