I need some help, have been going through a Non molestation and occupation order against my stbxh because of DV, I've been a litigant in person the whole way through the process. Will try to summarise what's happened so far!
A month ago I went to a without notice hearing for the Non Mol and it was granted for 12 months. The judge said she'd serve my Ex (and me) with the documents that day by email (specifically the order itself, my 1st witness statement and my application). Sure enough a few hours later I was emailed all the documents, meaning it had also been served to my Ex.
I went along to the return hearing to discuss occupation order and continuation of the Non Mol a couple of days later. I was nervous as hell but he didn't turn up, which surprised me. The judge said he was of a mind to make the occupation order looking at the evidence, but was reluctant to do so without the respondent there. I thought to myself "well if the respondent cared so much he would've turned up to defend himself!" But I'd been warned that many judges saw occupation orders as "draconian" and would only do so in exceptional circumstances. So it was decided there would be a few weeks to gather more evidence, get responses from both parties and have a return hearing in a couple of months.
I followed the court's directions - two weeks later I sent my response to the court/my ex, which was a 2nd witness statement and loads of evidence. Two weeks after that he was supposed to respond.
But today - literally the day that his response was due, I get an email from a solicitor saying they're representing my Ex and to give them a bunch of documents that they claimed their client doesn't have - namely the Non Mol itself, my application, and my 1st witness statement. How can this be?? I know that the Non Mol is deemed as "served" even if the applicant doesn't read the email, trashes it etc. So I went back and told this solicitor they could get everything they needed from their client, or failing that from the court. She kept emailing me back and saying that I needed to provide her with copies of these things. I knew that was bullsh*t so just reiterated that they could get them from the court. She emailed me back again, saying it would be "reasonable and standard" for me to provide these, and admitting that she had requested them from the court but there "may be a delay before we receive them".
So my question is - am I right to just ignore this request? I've sent two clearly worded emails already that tell them where they can get the documents. I don't see that it's MY problem that my Ex reckons he wasn't served the documents - that's a problem between him and the court. I don't need to be making things easier for him. His solicitors have admitted that they've asked the court but basically can't wait for their response. What has that got to do with me?? Will the court see me as being obstructive by not giving these documents to his solicitors? I don't know if they're playing silly buggers or whether he genuinely hasn't been served the first lot of documents? It would explain why he didn't attend the return hearing as that was mentioned in the Non Mol.