Eileen I had the same thing happen last year and it is very simple to deal with. Firstly once they have sent you the charge notice you need to reply with a conditional offer of acceptance allowing 7 days for a reply. When the 7 days has passed and no reply has been received simply follow up the conditional offer with a Notice of Non Response and Permanent Irrevocable Lawful Estoppel by Acquiescence. This stops them dead in their tracks and means that they have no further recourse in a court of law. It's been 14 months now since I first used this method and I used it again in April of this year. As I write I have not had any further repercussions. Always send any mail recorded delivery and hold on to the receipts.
Thanks for that Frogmanbrabs. I used that method a few times and it did work well but one of the recipients actually went as far as to answer the points raised. Anyway, I thought I would try Veronica's DebtBust templates which I thought were excellent. However, as you can see, I've now come to grief with them. My thanks also to Mog for your further comments. I am in the process of trying to appeal by I've come across a massive stumbling block.
Turning to your last, Dreadlock, as you recommended, I did see a solicitor late on Friday and spent about 20 mins with him. He was a very nice gent from (at a guess) somewhere in Africa. I told him I'd been done for speeding and he wanted to go into details, etc., but I told him it was a bit irrelevant because I'd already had a 'judgment'. I told him I wanted to appeal and he was of the opinion that I was too late to lodge an appeal unless I had a good excuse like illness. I told him that I am unwell and have various health conditions. He then wanted me to get a health report from my doctor. I haven't been to the doctor's for about ten years so I told him I didn't think it would be easy to get one. He was then of the opinion that the court would not allow me to appeal. Lovely!
"What speed were you traveling?", etc."Oh no, you won't get away with that." I told him that I'd not been sent a proper court judgment. There was no Magistrate's signature, only a notice of judgment with a printed name stating that it was from the Justices Clerk. "Oh well, the magistrate would have noted it down and the Justices Clerk would follow through and administrate the judgement."
I told him I had written many times questioning the courts jurisdiction. I was getting a bit hot under the collar with this bad news and told him that I was not obliged to accept a judgment from a corporation or a company with no authority under the common law. They have no more authority than your company has over me. If you were to say, I don't like the speed you were doing and I'm going to fine you, I'd laugh at you, wouldn't I?" I could see him starting to smile (almost cracking up) and thinking "who is this loony?"
Just as I already predicted he thought I was raving on about the law and so forth, so I asked him if he knew anything about the common law of this country and he sort of went a bit cross-eyed and avoided replying. I was getting a bit hacked off with his totally predictable (to me) behaviour, so I went for it to agg him up too. "I was driving without my licence on that day," I told him. He had to break eye contact at this point and looked at me horrified.

"Driving without a licence?" he questioned, outraged. "Yep," say I. "That's means you were uninsured!"
"Doesn't matter!" I told him and said that under the common law, I was not obliged to use a driver's licence; that it was only brought in in 1994 during the war as they thought it necessary for Army and other Services personnel to have a licence to drive Government vehicles and act as a Government agent and that they had kept in on after the war and duped us all into believing that we had to have a licence to drive.
He was now arrested to the point of being quite intrigued and interested

. I told him that I had been studying the common law for some little while and though I was not an expert, I had come across the Magna Carta and said that it guaranteed a right to all of us to travel the highways without hindrance or let and that no one should be prevented from traveling anywhere as they see fit. I also informed him that this was signed by King John in 1215 and it still stands today. The King had signed it in perpetuity, saying it could never be repealed and that even today it cannot be.
I said that there was also new laws from the eighteenth century during our Union with Scotland that backed this up. He was getting pretty interested but was still gobsmacked and giggly.

Any old way up, the upshot was that he would fill out the forms for £200 but could not, in any way, guarantee that I would be offered an appeal. He stated categorically that he did not think it would be possible. He also said that the court would be examining 'my conduct'.
"My conduct? I am examining their conduct!" I protested. "My conduct has been exemplary," I said. "I have replied patiently to everything they have sent me. They on the other hand had never once deigned to respond to a single matter or question I raised. They had merely moved straight to judgment and are prepared to use the weight of their delusional power to drag other government authorities behind them to impose their 'judgment' upon me. Absolutely unlawfully!"
I told him that if I wouldn't be allowed an appeal, I would take up a private prosecution and seek a judicial review. Then, of course, his eyes started rolling over as he was calculating how much he could score from this nutter.
As you can imagine he was giggling and his eyes were going to ceiling at the same time. Very amusing but not too productive for me, eh what?
He said to me to think about it till Monday and he would help me fill the forms but did not think I would gain an appeal. So here I am - kippered!
Anybody got any ideas on what I should do now?
I've just had to renew my driver's licence and guess what? Yes, you got. Six points added. Lovely!
I'd also love to hear Veronica's comments on this too. Is anyone able to draw her attention to this lively exchange of posts and get her to say what she thinks is the way forward under these circumstances. I really want to fight it out with them but they seem to be holding all the right cards right now.
Thank you all so much for reading this post. Sorry in advance if it is rushed and a little frenetic. I don't want to dump it on anyone else but I'm trying to move home amongst other things and I'm feeling a lot of stress at the moment.
I'm very very grateful to you all for all the help I've received so far and hope I can get some more help before I finally crack up. Joke!
Cheers all for now.