Reports for court · digital forensics, Birmingham
CPR Part 35 puts the expert to work for the court first — ahead of client, solicitor and whoever is paying. Birmingham holds one of the biggest concentrations of law firms outside London, and the people instructing us know what happens to a report written to win an argument: it snaps the first time a competent opponent leans on it. That rule is where our reports begin.
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| Report type | Where it fits | What it contains |
|---|---|---|
| Plain findings report | First advice, HR matters, decisions at board level | What we found, the route taken to it, and what it means, said plainly |
| Insurance and loss-claim report | When cause, scale and liability are in dispute | Findings, exhibits and a section on causation |
| A CPR Part 35 report | Civil claims in England and Wales | The overriding duty set out, your instruction on the record, the full method, and both declarations signed — truth and compliance |
| A CrimPR Part 19 report | Cases before the criminal courts | The same again in criminal form: qualifications, the material that goes to reliability, credibility declared |
| One expert, both parties | Where one expert has been appointed to serve both parties | One report, identical for each side, with the duty running past them both to the court |
Nothing begins until we have talked it through privately. Tell us what happened, which devices and accounts it reaches, and what the evidence has to prove; those three answers fix the scope, and the scope fixes the one written price you receive before anyone examines a device. That conversation is free.
The letter of instruction goes into the report, summarised in our own words. Anything touching our credibility goes in beside it — first among them an independent lab holding no accreditation — set down before the examination begins instead of being dragged out of us in the witness box.
Work is performed, and logged, with an opposing examiner in mind: the one who will read it looking for the weak joint, because sooner or later somebody does. Conclusions never tilt towards the party paying for them.
Which court you are in decides the shape: CPR Part 35 for civil, CrimPR Part 19 for criminal. Either way you get the method written out, the exhibits, an unbroken continuity record and both declarations. Conclusions come first and the technical annex sits at the back.
Everything goes across: the report, the exhibits, the source files, hash values, the continuity log and the notes written at the bench. An opposing expert, or the tribunal itself, can repeat every step and end up with the same answer.
One question to put to any expert you are considering: the criminal practice directions have, from April 2019, expected anything liable to weaken confidence in an expert's reliability to be brought into the open, with an accreditation not held named among them. Left unsaid, it stops being the expert's difficulty and becomes yours. Ours is on the first page of every report that leaves here.
One folder sat between two companies and two sets of accounts that refused to agree. The image showed that neither copy had been left alone, and the timeline put that beyond argument. The matter settled inside a month.
A findings report tells you what we found and how we got there. Court work stacks more on top: the overriding duty set down, your instruction summarised, the method and the exhibit history in full, the truth and compliance declarations both signed, and anything that could be used to undermine the expert put in writing.
Nobody's, whoever pays. Helping the court is the first obligation and it outranks everything owed to the party who instructed us — and that order of priority is exactly why the report is worth having.
Yes. One report gets written, both sides receive the same wording at the same hour, and neither party gets an early look at it or a chance to comment first.
The rules say declare it, so it goes in the opening pages rather than a footnote. A court weighs the method, because that is where authority actually comes from. Reports fall over for claiming too much, not for a missing certificate.
Every hour the recorder runs, more of what you need is gone, and the deadline stays where it is. Book it in now: the diagnosis is free and stays confidential.