FT/D/2025/0379 - [2025] UKFTT 01322 (GRC)

This is an appeal against a decision of the Registrar of Approved Driving Instructors (‘the Registrar’) made on 19 March 2025 to refuse to grant the Appellant a third trainee licence.

Neither party attended. The clerk attempted to contact the Appellant by telephone at the beginning of the hearing but there was no reply. I was satisfied that both parties had been given notice of the hearing and that it was in the interests of justice to proceed in their absence.

I was informed following the hearing and before any decision had been promulgated that by GRC5 dated 1 October 2025 the Registrar had applied to strike out the appeal on the basis that the appellant had failed his third and final attempt at the Part 3 instructional ability test on 30 September 2025.

By directions from the Registrar dated 10 October 2025 the Appellant has been given the opportunity to make representations on why the appeal should not be struck as having no reasonable prospects of success by no later than 24 October 2025. I therefore waited until any representations had been received before making a decision on the appeal. The appellant did not provide any representations.