7.10 Your volunteering and writing statements
This module has explained how to interview clients to obtain the necessary information and help turn this into a written court statement.
In this module you have learned about:
- What court statements are
- What you can and can’t do in supporting clients to write statements
- Getting information from the client for their statement
- How to write and format a court statement.
When helping clients to write their statements, please remember:
- Don’t give legal advice
- Focus on what the court is asking the client to do.
- Ask open questions
- Use the client’s own words wherever possible
- Use numbered paragraphs.
Support Through Court have a suite of training modules which you can complete so please do take a look at the other modules available. You can study these in any order. They include:
- Special measures [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)]
- Working with Cafcass
- Interviewing clients
- Writing statements
- Signposting clients to other organisations
- Working with vulnerable people
The domestic abuse modules are designed to be studied in order, from the first working to the third. These modules are:
- Introducing domestic abuse
- Supporting survivors of domestic abuse
- Supporting clients who are accused of perpetrating domestic abuse
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7.9 Examples of poor court statements