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has anyone had to make one of these?
something happened a couple of weeks ago and i phoned the police. since then a policewoman has been round and i've given her a verbal account but now i have to make a statement.
im just wondering what happens?
how is this different from a verbal account?
something happened a couple of weeks ago and i phoned the police. since then a policewoman has been round and i've given her a verbal account but now i have to make a statement.
im just wondering what happens?
how is this different from a verbal account?
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That's what happened when I had to give a statement.
A full witness statement is admissible in court, should it progress that far. If the defence agree your statement, then it will be read out in court as evidence.
A verbal account in the police pocketbook isn't admissible in court as evidence, even if signed, so if your account is of any use to an incident they are investigating they'll come back and take a full witness statement.
If the defence don't agree the facts, and it proceeds to trial at either the Magistrates or the Crown Court, then you will be called to give evidence at the trial.
That sounds very scary, but it really isn't. You get called to court, you come into court, and swear an oath. The prosecution advocate will ask you questions, and then the defence advocate will cross-examine you about what you've said. Most trials are in the magistrates court, and most defence advocates are just solicitors who are usually harmless enough.
thanks
what did you get arrested for?
Sign it right where you finish writing. That way they can't add things afterwards.
Or you don't, if you want to have a laugh with them.
Making a death threat haha!
Apparently the guy was some top Unionist over here and I said I was going to shoot him, they raided my house and were looking for guns and stuff like that. I missed school that day so it wasn't all bad.
I kind of gave a mini statemnt on the night but i was very drunked and it was all a blood filled blue, and then the polcieman turned up at my house about a week later and did the proper statement thing. Easy peasy and you just have to sign your name at the end of it, and thats abooot it really.
It depends on whether you want the defendant to get off or not, doesn't it...
Witness summonses are our friend.
Lipsy, yeah, just say what you said before. Make sure you don't change anything, but do add things if you remember more. Whether it gets as far as court or not I don't know, they don't normally, but that's what happens if there is a court case against the person you're complainaing about.
Yeah, I guess.
What happens if the defendant doesn't swear in, btw?
It's not like you can issue a writ of mandamus to him or anything isit?
You don't have to swear on a bible or other religious text if you don't want to, an oath is enough.
If the defendant doesn't swear in he can't take to the witness box. Only person he's shafting is himself.
That's interesting. What about those fairly common instances where he's going to be the main source of the prosecutions case and information?
He isn't, though.
Police interviews are prosecution evidence, read out by a police officer or whoever it was who did the interview (its often RSPCA/trading standards in animal abuse cases). The defendant doesn't need to stand up, or even be at court, for that evidence to be admitted.
So by not swearing all he's doing is not giving himself a chance to put his side of the story. His choice, I guess.
Yeah, right. If only courts ever actually presumed anyone innocent.
Criminal. :no:
We don't want your sort on these boards.
The prosecution would have to show you were driving to convict you. Quite often they can. It's a tough one to pull off, bearing in mind you'd have to know what you were doing, as speeding offences don't entitle you to legal aid solicitor support.
An employee of ManYoo got away with it, because they refused to declare who was driving the company car at the time.
Well, a solicitor etc have to uphold the court, not work out ways to get around it, as we have said before. By the way, if a person is presumed innocent, are they presumed innocent of every element of the alleged crime?
Would that include jurisdiction?
Who has the burden of proof again?
etc etc
You don't need to know that much anyway, as under ECHR (article 6)you have to be fully informed of what's going on. This means that if you don't get your questions answered.........
Refusing to do anything is a recipe for disaster with bullies, of course. Probably questions would be the way to go about it.
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