[2024] UKUT 148 (AAC)

The Appellant argues:

the Traffic Commissioner mistakenly found that he failed to provide an updated bank statement. He did so, by emailing a screenshot of a recent statement, shortly after it was requested on 24 March 2023;

the bank statement screenshot he provided should have been accepted as valid. It was taken from the ‘official bank app’ and should have been treated in the same way as an original bank statement;

no one told him that a screenshot would not be acceptable, and he could not have been expected to know that it would be rejected. It was extremely unjust for the Commissioner to have maintained his refusal decision once the screenshot evidence had been brought to his attention;

in assessing the Appellant’s income, the Commissioner failed to have regard to his plan to do interpreting and handyman work until he qualified as a driving instructor. He was currently doing less interpreting to give him time to study but could easily earn £8000 per annum from interpreting and £5000 from handyman work which would mean that his other sources of income would surpass his projected PSV income.