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Can a solicitors letter be used in court as evidence?

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Ifyouarenttheone · 24/09/2020 08:00

Just that really, can a solicitors letter be submitted as evidence in court?

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Whitneylilyrose · 25/09/2020 02:52

As someone who has been through this.

Nobody pays a solcitor to write a letter for no reason.
Its different from getting police or a landlord to write a free letter.

Monty27 · 25/09/2020 02:58

Lawyer is probably rolling his eyes at your ex but needs to follow instructions
Hopefully the judge will laugh them both out of court Angry

RedRumTheHorse · 25/09/2020 11:19

@Whitneylilyrose

As someone who has been through this.

Nobody pays a solcitor to write a letter for no reason.
Its different from getting police or a landlord to write a free letter.

Unfortunately some people have a strange sense of reality and solicitors can only go on what their client tells them.
LoveEatYoga · 25/09/2020 11:21

Letter is evidence that the letter was sent

It could be evidence of what it says in that eg (very crude example) ex said you stole money from an account last August. You say you didn't. A solicitor letter from August last year does not prove it happened but it is a contemporaneous note if what ex said happened IYSWIM so shows at least that ex is not just making it up today

Haven't RTFT

Ifyouarenttheone · 25/09/2020 13:22

Well this is a man who got the solicitor to write a letter to say I had set him up to fail as I had put dc nappy on incorrectly and it leaked, yet put in a handover book that nappy leaked and was extremely heavy. Then tried applying for shared lives with based on allegations like that as I'm trying to alienate him.

This time it's actually the other way, he wants shared lives with but if I give him all the contact he wants, allows him to take dc abroad when he likes and he gets dc 3 out of 4 weekends as I don't work. But he doesn't want any video contact and doesn't want me to be able to call dc either as it will place limits on his time with dc Hmm.

Cafcass and judge previously suggested every other week, alternate holidays and half of holidays once dc is in school.

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RedRumTheHorse · 25/09/2020 13:55

As PPs said solicitors will write anything they are convinced to by their client. This is because they have to believe their client.

Ignore his letters and file them away until he takes you to Court. Then use them to show he's unreasonable if you can.

However, judges and CAFCASS are used to parents throwing allegations often stupid ones at each other so may not be interested.

Sunnydaysstillhere · 25/09/2020 13:59

There is a process that stops him keep returning you to court without good cause. Not sure what it's called - a section?.... The judge got pd off with exh and I got one issued to him....
After he bypassed his solicitor and wrote to the judge insisting I was given a custodial sentence due to a typo in the previous court order...
I kid not again!

Ifyouarenttheone · 25/09/2020 14:15

@Sunnydaysstillhere that is crazy, I just don't understand it. I mean my ex if anything goes wrong in his time with dc it's me, even when he failed to give dc liquids it was apparently me.

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