Summonds To Court To Give Evidence.

[Inneedofhelp]

My partner and 19year old son had a fight my son started it but came off worse. I gave statements as a witness and even made another statement a couple of months before it went to trial stateing my son started it but his dad went to far. My son however has always insisted he did no wrong and was protecting me as it started with myself and my partner arguing. Although I was in no danger my son used this as an excuse for his actions.It went to magistrates court and we all gave our evidence. My partner was given a fine to the courts also charged guilty. 3months on and my partner has no appealed the verdict to crown court and we have a date in a month. He wants the guilty charge taken off his record as he has never been in trouble with the police before and has to have crbs for his job. We have just got this family back on track.I got a call from the police and I told them myself and my son do not want to attend court again. They have now said we can be summoned? I explained to the police we are all getting along now as a family and do not want to put myself through the whole court drama again, my son feels the same. I am now worried if we both don't attend and they summonds us both and we still don't attend we will be charged with contempt and face a fine or time in a cell. Also will the contempt charge show up on a CRB check as I also work in the the healthcare industry with vunerable adults?

[New Judge]

In short you need to attend.

At the Crown Court the trial will be re-run but this time before a bench consisting of a Crown Court judge and two magistrates (but obviously neither of them will have any knowledge of the earlier proceedings).

If you do not attend the prosecution may ask the court to issue a witness summons against you. If you do not attend in response to that you may be arrested and brought to court in custody. Crown Court judges take a very dim view of people refusing to respond to orders from the court and you may find the consequences somewhat serious. Any action taken against you will almost certainly appear on Disclosure and Barring check (this is the new name for a CRB check).

[Peter Pedant]

If you look up a lot of the threads on this section

New Judge and other suspects give opinions on the very frequent questions on withdrawing statements as the case has gone much further than wanted

Dont start it is the obvious advice but now you have....

you have to follow through -