---
type: "Public Service Route"
title: "England and Wales speeding court response route"
description: "Official England and Wales response and redress boundary when a speeding allegation reaches the magistrates court process."
status: "observed"
assertion_status: "official"
service_family: "respond-to-speeding-notice"
jurisdiction: "england-and-wales"
provider: "hm-courts-and-tribunals-service"
observed_at: "2026-08-07"
sources:
  - id: "govuk-single-justice-procedure"
    title: "Single justice procedure notices"
    resource: "https://www.gov.uk/single-justice-procedure-notices"
    author: "organisation:hm-courts-and-tribunals-service"
    observed_at: "2026-08-07"
  - id: "govuk-appeal-magistrates-decision"
    title: "Appeal a magistrates' court decision"
    resource: "https://www.gov.uk/appeal-magistrates-court-decision"
    author: "organisation:hm-courts-and-tribunals-service"
    observed_at: "2026-08-07"
---

# England and Wales speeding court response route

Where the actual case uses a single justice procedure notice,
[HMCTS](../organisations/hm-courts-and-tribunals-service.md) says the notice
identifies the prosecutor, response method and charge. The observed general
guidance gives 21 days from the date shown to respond and describes guilty,
not-guilty and hearing branches. It expressly says Scotland and Northern
Ireland use different rules.

The official magistrates-court guidance supplies review, reopening and appeal
boundaries for [England](../jurisdictions/england.md) and
[Wales](../jurisdictions/wales.md). The actual notice and current court
instructions control. This record supplies no plea, mitigation, appeal-ground
or outcome advice.

All facts were observed on 2026-08-07 and remain subject to the
[evidence limitations](../evidence/learning-to-drive-speeding-sources.md).
