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Aqsa Aqsa v The Registrar of Approved Driving Instructors
[2025] UKFTT GRC 1348 · First-tier Tribunal (General Regulatory Chamber) – Transport · 2025
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1. The appeal concerns the Appellant’s application for a second trainee licence.
2. The Respondent applied by way of form GRC5 on 1 September 2025 to strike out the appeal under Rule 8(3)(c) of the Tribunal Procedure rules on the basis that there was no reasonable prospect of it succeeding.
3. Under Regulation 14(b) of the Motor Cars (Driving Instruction) Regulations 2025 a trainee licence remains in force until the day immediately following the trainee’s third unsuccessful attempt at the instructional ability test.
4. The Respondent informed the Tribunal in its form GRC5 that the Appellant failed their third attempt at the instructional ability test on 28 August 2025. Accordingly, the appeal must fail, because the Appellant is no longer eligible to hold a trainee licence. The application was copied to the Appellant, who has had an opportunity to make any representations about the proposed striking out.
5. Unless the Appellant applies to set this decision aside within 7 days of it being issued, the appeal shall stand struck out without further order under Rule 8(3)(c) because I am satisfied there is no reasonable prospect of it succeeding.