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  1. Is there a time limit on summoning someone to court for this benefit issue? I have just been told they cannot issue a summons after 6mths of the offence date. Yet my g/f was summoned 11 months later!
  2. Just had a quick look at a copy of my statement and it is written on official LA sworn statement form. A quick read through and its not worded as I said it, and i signed it at the bottom. The paragraph 'true to the best of my belief etc' is on the statement. I didnt realise this at the time. So its a sworn statement. That isnt good is it?
  3. ?? I will get her to see another solicitor asap. Can they force my statement in court? Problem we have is that we are in france + cant afford to keep going back to the UK fot this and solicitors.
  4. She has a solicitor, but he says she cannot go before crown court as the charges are not a crown issue (failure to disclose changes or summat) . If found guilty she can then appeal + take the matter to crown herself.
  5. It wasnt even an interview. I went on spec, I wasnt called in. I just went to try and clear the matter up as my g/f was upset by it all.
  6. Can this statement be withdrawn then? or can I refuse to appear at court on any grounds? Not only that witnesses are not supposed to discuss the case and my g/f and i talk about nothing else and I have seen all her defence witness statements too. Can this be cause to have me omitted as a prosecution witness?
  7. She is pleading not guilty and has a trial date set for magistrates. I dont think I did the statement under oath. She just wrote down what I said and asked me to sign it. Its only now that I realise what I have signed. I just thought she was writing it down for her supervisors and that it would all clear the matter up.. Nothing was recorded and there was only one LA person in the room (this was done at the LA not the DWP).
  8. I dont understand why they would summon me for the prosecution when its obvious I wouldnt be a favourable witness for them. It doesnt make sense. I never even wanted to make a statement. I only went to see them to clear this up, but they wrote it all down, then told me to sign it. I should have read it over more carefully, as reading it now its not as I worded things. I didnt realise they would then use it as a statement in court. If id known that it was going to be used like this I would never have signed anything without legal advise. I wasnr even cautioned, taped or told why they wrote it down.
  9. They are using me because they say I contradict my g/f. She sed that I dont support her of the kids, but I said that i didnt support them but had on one occassion got some shopping for her. Not exactly supporting her but they twisted it. They say they can find her guilty because of this contradiction even though she is innocent. If she is found guilty I will lose my family as there is no evidence against her and that why as a last resort they are now enforcing my statement. As we also live overseas this will financially ruin us, leaves no-one to look after the children during trial and could cost me my job taking time off.
  10. My girlfriend had her benefits stopped on alledged grounds that we were living together. This was not the case and she is fighting it. They have issued prosecution proceedings and as they have no evidence that have called me as a wiotness against her. At the time of this we were not living together, i was living with my mother who will not back up the fact that i was at her house. Since this has been going on, and her benefits stopped we did move into a house as a couple. We also have children. We are not married. At the time when she was called to an interview I was so upset for her that I went to the council to explain that we didnt live together at all. I thought well if i go and clear up this mess it will be ok.. but it wasnt. They wrote everything i said and i signed it, now they are using as a statement against her. What can I do? If I am summoned to court and she is found guilty, I will lose my family! I love her and my children, how can they pitt us against one another like this? I told them that I didnt live with her. I should be her witness not theirs. Help me please.
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