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Hi,
I have the fact finding hearing on the 28th January, the other side have known for months that they needed to prepare this bundle and have only just filed this on me now.
All they have served upon me is the Protocol docs, containing an index to all docs to be included and a case summary.
1: They have sent this today giving me only till Monday 12 noon to respond, not really adequate when I may well be working
2: They have made a NEW allegation on the case summary that has never been mentioned before or in the SCHOTT schedule, can this be allowed
Help please
I think the best option is to ring the CCLC helpline first thing on Monday morning (I don't think there's enough time for them to comment on here) and see if they can assist.
go through the docs....if there's suff in there that you don;t feel relevant or you feel shouldn't be in there then rasie that with them now.....then make notes for each point and raise it again at court.....mention to court that you were only given the short time/day few hours to be able to respond to them.
apart from that i'd guess its just you needing to prepare your points to fight the ones they put in.
go through each and make notes for each page.......when i did mine i went through 80+ pages and made notes in an A4 note pad for each of the points i wanted to raise and for each of the ones i disagreed with or was not happy with.
what they have done is just to try and make you panic.....sit and read the folder....make notes calmly and readable for each page number so that you can refer to them when you need to address them at court.
e.g: Page 1, para 3....line 2.....the allegation is false/did not happen like she now claims...it didn't happen.......if it did then why was it not reported previously...why now?.....in my opinion this is nothing mroe than another way to delay me seeing my kids!
thats the sort of thing you need to make notes about........its now all about preparation.......i've spent so much time going through the files in the weeks running up to the hearings i've been involved in over the last 2,1/2yrs......many sleepless nights worrying about bare faced lies that she has just thrown in to the mix...all to delay / control me seeing my child.
7 P's.........Proper Planning and Preparation Prevents [censored] Poor Performance
Thanks, i did email them on the friday anyway with a whole host of issues
Some are factual and they are saying are not reasonable amendments to be made!!!
They have emailed back simply saying it is unlikely they will be agreed so we will prepare and mark as not agreed!! So they haven't even asked the ex wife
Some of them are facts
IE: the reason the ex wife contested the MF at first hearing, they have only stated one of the reasons she objected and not the other two
that I didnt object to her aunts statement in my response !! Which i clearly did
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