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Small claims court- can someone answer a quick question about evidence please?

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ChillYourBoots81 · 07/02/2023 14:25

I am collating my evidence for a small claim to send to the court. All evidence needs to be in chronological order.
I have lots of different evidence, 4 email trails, quotes, invoices, texts etc.
My question is do I keep each type of evidence together in bundles and then order,or do I interweave it all. Eg slot in the quote after the email saying quote attached. Slot text messages in between email threads if they were sent in between those emails?
I've rang money claim and CAB with no joy.
It's a good amount of money so want it to be correct.
Thank you

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123InTheSky · 07/02/2023 14:46

When I went to small claims, I placed all the evidence as appendices in chronological order and referred to it within the document. This was in 2018.

Think I may have had a list of appendices too.

BluebellTimeInKent · 07/02/2023 18:21

You can do either, just make sure it's paginated and indexed. I don't personally like interweaving evidence, but it's up to you. I'd do it in sections as well as numbers, so 1 - 50 (or whatever) are invoices in chronological order, 51 - 150 is the emails, 151 - 250 are texts etc. The index then looks like this:

Section A - Invoices
Invoice 11 March 2022 - 1
Invoice 12 June 2022 - 2
(etc)

Section B - Emails
Email from me to D 12 Jan 2022 - 51-53
Email from D to me 14 Jan 2022 - 53-56
(etc)

If you can manage it, try to introduce it through a witness statement.

"I sent a message on 2 April which is at p157 in Section C. This was followed up the same day by an email, see p78. These referred to queries I had about the invoice at p12." And so on and so forth.

If you can do that you will make the judge's life easier, but if you can't, then as a minimum make sure it is paginated and indexed.

ChillYourBoots81 · 07/02/2023 19:59

Thank you both very much, that's really helpful.
I've done a very detailed witness statement but quite anxious about it all so just wanted it to be right.
I've decided not to interweave and keep documents seperate.
Happy to get it posted now, thank you

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