“With my arrival at FRP this year, the Forensic Services team expanded our services to include forensic document analysis, CCTV and video analysis, audio enhancement and analysis and high level digital forensic examinations. We have also been acting as a single point of contact for clients requiring accredited expert witnesses in other highly specialised fields.” Which additional services have been introduced?
“I was instructed in a litigation case to analyse and compare the signature on a crucial document and to compare it with known signature samples. We provided an expert opinion as to the authenticity of the questioned signature. Another matter saw me instructed to analyse CCTV from multiple locations and carry out a clothing comparison to track the movements of an offender in a murder case. I was also instructed to process and enhance CCTV of a shooting incident, to analyse the audio and video recordings and to give an opinion on the positions of the various persons involved.” Which assignments are most notable from 2023?
“2023 marks the Forensic Technology team’s first full year running RelativityOne, an Azure cloud-hosted SaaS platform, for all of our clients’ eDiscovery projects. This feature rich environment provides additional functionality such as ‘on-the-fly’ document translations and native file redaction capabilities. As predicted last year, we have seen a significant increase in the volume of short message data, such as Teams, Slack and WhatsApp across all investigation matters in 2023. We also expanded our team and can now support forensic audio-visual and signature analysis.” How was 2023 for the Forensic Technology team?
“My notable assignment from this year was supporting a large internal investigation with a focus on identifying lines of communication, and individuals who were aware of a set of specific events. The initial review of email correspondence provided an incomplete picture and following our advice, Slack data was brought into scope. The Slack data set comprised circa five million ‘chats’ which we converted into Relativity Short Message Format (RSMF) and analysed. This exercise resulted in the identification of an additional 212 custodians of potential interest, who had not been identified during the email review.” What was your most notable 2023 assignment?
Jon Walklin, Director
Adrian Coates, Director
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