Katy Louise Temple v Registrar of Approved Driving Instructors

Facts

The appellant had held a driving licence since 1999 and had worked as an approved driving instructor (ADI) for about 15 years, latterly running her own driving school. In 2025 she received two fixed penalties for exceeding the statutory speed limit on a public road, on 8 April and 8 October, each carrying 3 penalty points. The Registrar of Approved Driving Instructors sent her a warning letter on 16 June 2025, between the two offences. Her solicitors made representations on 16 January 2026. They described the offences as low-level lapses set against a long, clean professional record and the hardship her two dependent children would face, and they asked for a final warning. On 19 January 2026 the Registrar removed her name from the Register under section 128(2)(e) of the Road Traffic Act 1988, on the ground that she had ceased to be a fit and proper person. She appealed to the First-tier Tribunal in person, relying on her record, testimonials, remorse, a voluntary speed awareness course and her family circumstances. At the hearing by video on 1 September 2026, the appellant disclosed for the first time an earlier speeding matter, 77 mph in a 70 mph motorway limit, which had been dealt with by a speed awareness course before the April 2025 offence.