FT/D/2025/0531 - [2025] UKFTT 01218 (GRC)

The Appellant passed Part 1 of the Qualifying Examination on 8 November 2023 and passed Part 2 on 15 February 2024. The Appellant applied for two trainee licences which were granted and were valid from 4 March 2024 to 3 March 2025

On 19 February 2025, the Appellant applied for a third trainee licence. As the Appellant applied before the licence expired, this means that, at the date of the hearing, the appellant had been the beneficiary of a trainee licence for 1 year and over 7 months.

The Appellant cancelled a Part 3 exam booked for 24 September 2024. The DVSA cancelled a Part 3 exam booked for 9 January 2025. The Appellant took and failed her first attempt at the Part 3 exams on 25 March 2025 and failed the second attempt on 6 August 2025.

The Appellant booked her third attempt on 6 August 2025 and was placed ‘on hold’. She is still waiting for a date for that test.

The reasons for the Registrar’s decision, in summary, were that 12 months is considered to be a more than adequate period of time to gain sufficient experience to pass Part 3 and no evidence had been provided of lost training time.