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i am trying to understand any connection betweeen public servants ( eg council ) formal statments produced for teh courts, and perjury
the dictonary says says
am interested in could it be implimented in the folowing sinarios
1. Council officer with deligated legal responcability under ( LGFA ) swares, to the court cleark, that the accounts pack complies with all legal requirments----- when hew knows it doesnt, becuase he produced it
Why wouldnt that be perjury
2. A social worker, produces a s7 report, and lies to cover up a mistake, but the lie is serious.
Again, why would thatnot be perjury.
To be clear. what the difference between them actualy swaring it in court as tghe truth , over swearing it in a document for the court., ( in both cases, the documents produced are fromal court documents usued within the processes,
this is my starting point
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/1-2/6
i am trying to understand any connection betweeen public servants ( eg council ) formal statments produced for teh courts, and perjury
the dictonary says says
1. The crime of willfully and knowingly making a false statement about a material fact while under oath.
2. An act of committing such a crime: testimony full of perjuries.
2. An act of committing such a crime: testimony full of perjuries.
1. Council officer with deligated legal responcability under ( LGFA ) swares, to the court cleark, that the accounts pack complies with all legal requirments----- when hew knows it doesnt, becuase he produced it
Why wouldnt that be perjury
2. A social worker, produces a s7 report, and lies to cover up a mistake, but the lie is serious.
Again, why would thatnot be perjury.
To be clear. what the difference between them actualy swaring it in court as tghe truth , over swearing it in a document for the court., ( in both cases, the documents produced are fromal court documents usued within the processes,
this is my starting point
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/1-2/6
Perjury.
Where a statement made for the purposes of a judicial proceeding is not made before the tribunal itself, but is made on oath before a person authorised by law to administer an oath to the person who makes the statement, and to record or authenticate the statement, it shall, for the purposes of this section, be treated as having been made in a judicial proceeding.
(1)
If any person lawfully sworn as a witness or as an interpreter in a judicial proceeding wilfully makes a statement material in that proceeding, which he knows to be false or does not believe to be true, he shall be guilty of perjury, and shall, on conviction thereof on indictment, be liable to penal servitude for a term not exceeding seven years, or to imprisonment . . . F1 for a term not exceeding two years, or to a fine or to both such penal servitude or imprisonment and fine.(2)
The expression “judicial proceeding” includes a proceeding before any court, tribunal, or person having by law power to hear, receive, and examine evidence on oath.(3)
Where a statement made for the purposes of a judicial proceeding is not made before the tribunal itself, but is made on oath before a person authorised by law to administer an oath to the person who makes the statement, and to record or authenticate the statement, it shall, for the purposes of this section, be treated as having been made in a judicial proceeding.
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