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Hi All
I’ve written my statement for the final hearing which has lots of references to texts and emails from ex confirming child arrangements which she’s now disputing.
I’m limited to 10 pages so clearly can’t add all the copies of texts and emails as evidence in my statement.
Just trying to understand the rules as the court practice direction say you can’t bring new evidence into court.
Am I ok having all the references in my statement to various emails/ texts and just taking copies of these to court? It’s not really new evidence as the ex will have seen my statement and now I plan to rely on her texts and emails as evidence
Court legal clerk said at the FHDR the statement was 10 pages including any texts and emails but I’d need a lot more pages to do that
What contact are you actually getting at moment? How old are child/children? If contact has stopped what was you getting before it was stopped?
What I will say is if they said 10 pages max it means 10 pages max. I would probably be looking at scrapping a lot of the evidence regarding texts and emails. probably use only 1/2 pages worth maximum. if you done a 10 page statement also , you cant be taking additional evidence/copies to court as well. your focus should be on what contact you are seeking and how its going to work. Don't get drawn into text/emails. they know what your ex is like that's why you are in family court. as long as there is no safeguarding issues your focus should be on not slating ex/mud slinging but all about child.
It depends on the wording on the order but surely the 10 pages refers to just the actual statement? Any evidence should be supplementary to the statement so not included in the 10 page limit surely?
hi,
try your best to keep it to the required number of pages, max 10. what you do is find most important evidence of messages etc, and you put extracts of it into the statement . i wouldn't print out a batch of emails. do not bring extra pieces of evidence if they didn't ask for it.
check out: https://childlawadvice.org.uk/witness-statements/
Hi Bill
The legal advisor at the FHDR said 10
pages to include texts and emails
I’m going to attach the most important 2 emails where my ex confirms the current arrangements for term time are not In dispute as I’ve only gone to court to sort half of school hols, but their opener at the FHDR was to try and halve what my ex already confirms isn’t in dispute.
I will refer or quote from any other relevant texts/emails and take them to the final hearing to prove they exist
Does that sound reasonable?
Thanks
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