Witness citation

[burntorange21]

has anyone successfully managed to get out of being a witness at sheriff court by calling the PF and advising of ill health. I know the legalities and need a doctors certificate etc. want to know if anyone has done this before. I know failure to turn up is a contempt of court potentially I want to get out of it properly without recrimination

thanks

Bump

you won't get a medical certificate for ill health unless you're unconscious and in ITU or really seriously ill. No GP will do this on the advice of our defence unions as we can get called to court to tell the judge why we signed you off and in reality there's very little they will accept. We got asked to do these from time to time as GPs ...the only one I did was for someone who was unconscious in ITU.

Thank you for your response

I would contact the PF to arrange reasonable adjustments.

Thanks I am going to do that