Witholding Information from Court.

[Sassybeast]

Ex was ordered to disclose his full criminal history to the court prior to contact hearing in June.

He is acting for himself and has produced a letter from the police claiming that he has no recorded criminal records. I suspect that he gave a false address in order to get this.

My solicitor now has reports detailing all 3 cautions he has received in the past 6 months from the police officers who issued the cautions and is in the process of obtaining information about a serious conviction from abroad.

I am seriously starting to worry about his mental health and given that despite everything I still want him to have a meaningful relationship with the children, I wonder what impact this deliberate attempt to withold information would have ?
I am tempted to ask his father (from whom he is estranged) to try and talk to him and give his the heads up that we have the information and will produce it in court so that he has an opportunity to come clean before the hearing ?

Stay out of it - you are not responsible for him. Sorry to be blunt but you can't control things else you wouldn't be going to court in the first place - let them do their job!

What RedHelen said.
If he's estranged from the father you'd probably be wasting your time in any case. He lied, and he knows he lied. And now he'll be found out. He must have known that was a risk.

In any case, even if he does come clean before the hearing, will it make any difference to the outcome? Coming clean presumably isn't going to impact the reaction to the fact he has convictions.

Thanks for reply - do you happen to know what the likely outcome of him doing this will be ? i.e - is it likely to go against him in relation to the contact ? Or would it not be seen as relevant to the proceedings ?

Depending what the cautions are for I suppose. The main point the court are interested in is if those criminal cautions impact on the children.

The court can make an order allowing your solicitors to obtain disclosure of police records from your local constabulary. Is that what they've done?

2 of the cautions relate directly to the children.
The solicitor has been able to obtain statements from all the police officers involved without needing any court orders.

I am prepared for the court to take a pretty dim view of it. I just wish he would stop playing games