Digital Forensics & Investigation
When the evidence lives in the data, how it is recovered and handled matters as much as what it shows. Our digital forensics expert witnesses examine devices, cloud environments and enterprise systems, investigate breaches and data loss, and reconstruct events to a defensible evidential standard. We preserve, analyse and explain digital evidence with complete independence, and present it clearly to courts, regulators and counsel.
What this involves
- Forensic acquisition and preservation of devices and cloud data
- Breach, intrusion and data-loss investigation
- Malware analysis and incident reconstruction
- Disclosure, e-discovery and multimedia evidence
- Chain of custody and defensible evidential standards
Defensible acquisition and chain of custody
In a forensic matter, how the evidence was obtained is scrutinised as closely as what it shows. If the acquisition cannot be defended, the findings that rest on it are vulnerable. We image and preserve data to recognised forensic standards, document every step, and maintain an unbroken chain of custody from first contact with a device or account to the final report.
The same rigour lets us review an opponent’s evidence and identify where collection or handling fell short of the standard the court is entitled to expect.
Investigation and reconstruction
Once the material is secured, the work is to reconstruct what happened. We analyse logs, artefacts and system records to build a timeline, recover deleted or hidden data where recovery is possible, and authenticate documents, images and other media where their integrity is in question. Where a breach or intrusion is involved, we assess how it occurred, what was affected, and whether the controls in place met the expected standard.
Throughout, we separate what the evidence reliably establishes from what is inference, so the court is never offered more certainty than the artefacts support.
Disclosure and e-discovery support
Forensic expertise is as valuable in managing disclosure as in examining a single device. We help legal teams identify and preserve the right material, interrogate large data sets proportionately, and understand what the technical evidence within disclosure actually shows, keeping the exercise both defensible and cost-proportionate.
From lab to courtroom
Our findings are set out in CPR Part 35 compliant reports and, where required, defended under cross-examination. We explain technical forensic detail in terms a court can act on, without overstating what the data can bear.
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