Perjury? Collaborate are you there?

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Have you had experience of perjury? What was the outcome - I know the possibility of 7 years in prison but reality?

I know the courts take a very dim view of perjury. The CPS would look at various factors before deciding whether to prosecute. Look here it may give you an idea of their criteria.

Unless someone has a crystal ball I doubt whether they could give you a definitive answer.

Perjury is dealt with severely because it undermines the whole judicial process. Custodial sentences are the usual but perjury is not a common.
Are you ok OP?

*not common

Whenever 2 witnesses give contradictory evidence you could argue that one was perjuring themselves, but you never see prosecutions. I've had cases where spouses have sworn affidavits claiming to fully disclose their assets whilst hiding something later proven to exist but in family proceedings it usually results in an order for costs.
Geoffrey Archer is an expert on this subject so I believe!!

Jeffrey Archer went to prison, so did Johnathon Aitkin!

OP are you talking family court and hiding assets or giving someone a false alibi? You need to be a bit more specific.

Maybe not...if it means incriminating yourself!

Oh yes - do tell!

perjury is knowingly telling an untruth - or not the full truth - on oath at court or in a sworn statement eg. an affidavit. it is notoriously hard for the police to gather sufficient evidence to secure at realistic prospect of convction and therefore quite rare. Most of the prosecutions are high profile - take Jeffrey Archer for example - and tend to result from actual evidence given at a trial All I would say OP is that if you are contemplating perjury, don't do it. It's not worth it.The reason it is taken so seriously is that it strikes to the very heart of the legal system.

Giving a false alibi - like sneezecake mentions above - would more likely be an office of doing an act tending to pervert the course of justice. Again, a serious crime which is indicatble only which means any trial would be at the Crown Court.

Hope you are OK OP!

Im ok thanks

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I also had a (rather stupid) client who lied in his Form E and tried to hide a redundancy payment of 10k. It came out after the final hearing and his ex took it back to court and that 10k ended up costing him nearer 25k. Not worth it.

Thanks everyone - dont worry Im not that stupid!

This person has lied whilst giving evidence - so very very serious