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Hello all,
The judge ordered in April that the respondent prepare there statement of allegations with witness statements attached.
Our next hearing was in June and these hadn't been done. They said the reason was all police, medical records hadn't been gathered. The judge said this wasn't an excuse for not writing the statement of allegations with witness statements. Another date to file the statements was set for the beginning of this month. I received the statement of allegations but no witness statements. (the allegations referenced the witness statements).
With me only having 2 weeks to write my response i was pro active and wrote to emails to the respondents solicitor requesting the witness statements. With my time to respond almost running out i decided to write my response but say i was unable to reply to the allegations were statements have been referenced until i get all documentation.
I filled that to the court and the following day i received the witness statements from the solicitor. (dirty trick)
My questions are:
1. With my deadline later today. Do i need to write my full response now the witness statements have finally arrived?
2. Can i refuse to answer the questions due to missing the Court Order date?
Any advice would be very grateful.
Personally I would write a response to the statements and submit direct to court and the other side but put in covering letter to the judge explaining the reason for the late submission and if possible provide court with a copy of the date stamp from the envelope you received these late staements in as your proof of this dirty trick!
don't slag the other side off in the letter just state facts of when you received these and get this in to court a.s.a.p!
you should answer all questions in court with the truth and have copies of proof to support your responses to hand to provide the judge if they will accept them, have 3 copies with you so that you show you can provide back up for your answers if required.
typical slimey solicitors / ex's dirty tricks!!
Hello dad-i-d,
Thank you for your response. All correspondence has been through email so very easy to keep a record of dates/times. It's just so frustrating.
As I'm sure you're aware from your own case, I've jumped through hoops and provided blood, hair, mental health checks etc. They literally live 10 minutes from the solicitors and decide to miss there deadline and eat into most of mine.
They've already had two adjournments rejected from the Court and now they've put me in the position that i may have to apply for one.
But once again there's nothing to deter this behavior.
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