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I embarked on the court process with some degree of belief that justice will be done having tried all other avenues, mediation, couple counselling etc etc,
I have had 3 court hearings and the" main event" being scheduled for a few weeks ago - got my barristers organised and legal team, plus paid for the Independent Social worker to be present only to find that the court having "booked us in" and allocated a court bumped us as other cases took longer than was intended and we have been differed to a new date, this has probably cost me over £5000 for the day with nothing to show for it. a simple solution is courts being able to timetable cases with some degree of Float between cases and sticking to the periods allocated,
clearly there are too many cases and too few people to deal with the matters and yet again the person who suffers is the poor father in my case the applicant, I suppose I will end up bankrupt the way things have gone so far and little to show for it - but at least im trying, All other people taking the route of court be aware there are many hidden issues which in normal day business don’t happen yet in court process they seem to be acceptable without any redress or compensation
...Thats shocking, but why am I not suprised! 😡
Have you got another date? There is a complaints procedure if you feel inclined daddy1... I dont think you can get compensated financially but at least you can have your say!
As they “bumped” your case on surely you can apply to courts for costs? It’s certainly worth asking and pursuing…..after all why should you be penalised financially because they had to move your case on!
Let us know how you get on, would be worth noting for the rest of the guys here…..especially now public funding (legal Aid) is cut off….more delay and more cost to the fathers wanting to see their kids!
I have got another date and have requested this is listed for all day which seems to be happening so we can try to ensure we have a guaranteed as far as can be slot. I know there is a complaints procedure but can’t see it will do any good and may just annoy the court?, The real issue here is that the system is poor and leans toward the mother and disorganised and this can’t be right - there needs to be reform but I just can’t see this happening as its a slow moving machine, F4Justice seemed to so some good in getting the father issues to the front of peoples mind by taking steps of public displays showing the injustices but I haven’t heard that there is much being debated in formal public forums at the right levels with people who have teh power to actually change things via publicity to ensure all these tragedies are being listen to for the majority of decent fathers and their children.
I had this several years ago - as far as I know, there is nothing you can do about it, it's just the way the system works.
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