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DP has court summons - 697 miles away!

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Username1233 · 13/03/2025 20:36

DH has received a court summons as a witness for the prosecution. We live in Cornwall. The court summons is to attend in Scotland. The trial begins over the Easter holidays which DH booked as annual leave to take with the kids, as I have recently started in my job and without going into too much detail, I need to source all my own business myself. I have only now started to build up clients to be able to start turning over and bringing money home - there is no way I can take 2 weeks off in April. Does anyone know if he can give evidence by court summons remotely? The trial is expected to last up to two weeks, and it wouldn't be so bad if he could come home in between.

I have a 20 month old, and an 8 year old - working from home would be really tricky with 20 month old, plus as I'm so new to my job sector I really need the support of my colleagues within the office (I'm super new!).

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Bignanna · 13/03/2025 20:48

Can you contact the court directly?

Themagicclaw · 13/03/2025 20:58

Best bet is to contact the fiscal depute directly. They will be the person preparing the case. They can usually work something out. The summons will have something called a PF reference number on it. If you ring the enquiry point on 03000203000 then give them the reference, you should be able to get hold of an actual human. It is very unlikely they'll want your DH for the whole case and you can probably discuss him giving video evidence.
I don't work for the courts but am cited frequently due to my job (healthcare).

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