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Notes from the practitioners.
Written for solicitors, in house counsel, government teams and private clients who need to understand what digital forensics can do for a case, before commissioning the work.
§ 01 · Featured
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Method
Forensic Readiness: Can Your Business Investigate a Breach That Hasn't Happened Yet?
Forensic readiness allows organisations to capture vital digital evidence before an incident occurs, cutting investigation costs and ensuring legal admissibility.
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Did the Employee Take the Client List? Building an IP-Theft Case
Proving employee client list theft requires structured digital forensics. Learn how to recover cloud logs, USB artifacts, and email records for UK legal proceedings.
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Employment Tribunal Digital Evidence: Employer Preservation Guide
A practical guide for HR and legal teams on capturing and preserving digital evidence before suspending an employee ahead of Employment Tribunal proceedings.
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§ 02 · Archive
The full archive, by subject.
Mobile forensics
- → Mobile phone forensics: the core principles and how it works.
- → Physical extraction: what it reaches, and what it does not.
- → What a mobile phone forensics expert actually does for your case.
- → Cell site analysis: what it can and cannot say about where a phone was.
- → Social media forensics: turning posts, DMs and metadata into evidence.
- → Suspected mobile hacking: how a forensic investigation is actually run.
- → The role of mobile phone experts in civil and criminal litigation.
WhatsApp forensics
Cyber
- → You think you have been hacked. What to do in the next twenty four hours.
- → Engaging a computer hacking investigator: what to expect.
- → Why cyber forensics has become critical for UK legal and corporate work.
- → Penetration testing: what it is, what it is not, and when to commission it.
- → Incident response: what it means in practice.
Method
- → Forensic Readiness: Can Your Business Investigate a Breach That Hasn't Happened Yet?
- → Did the Employee Take the Client List? Building an IP-Theft Case
- → Employment Tribunal Digital Evidence: Employer Preservation Guide
- → Digital Stalking: How Phones, AirTags and Accounts Leave Evidence
- → Can Digital Evidence Be Admissible but Still Misleading?
- → Digital Evidence for Defence Lawyers: 5 Interpretation Flaws
- → Ten Questions to Ask Before Instructing a Digital Forensic Expert
- → File Copied, Emailed or Uploaded? How Data Routes Are Proven
- → Incognito Does Not Mean Invisible: Private Browsing Forensics
- → Was This Word Document Created When Someone Claims It Was?
- → Business Email Compromise Forensics: Reconstructing the Attack
- → Cloud Evidence Has an Expiry Date: What Lawyers Must Preserve First
- → What Happens When an Employee Deletes Their Cloud Account?
- → The File Was Deleted From OneDrive: What Evidence Did It Leave Behind?
- → Digital Alibi Forensics: Building Defensible Evidence in the UK
- → How Investigators Reconstruct a Journey From Digital Breadcrumbs
- → Your Phone Says You Were There, but How Accurate Is It?
- → Challenges of Corporate Mobile and Cloud Data Extraction
- → Factory Reset: Is the Evidence Really Gone?
- → Disappearing Messages: Do They Really Disappear?
- → Electronic disclosure and cloud data collection: a guide for in-house counsel
- → Does Switching Off a Phone Preserve Evidence or Hinders Forensics?
- → Can a Phone Prove Who Was Actually Using It?
- → Locked Phone Forensics: How Examiners Access Locked Device Evidence
- → What Happens to a WhatsApp Message After Delete for Everyone?
- → The Evidential Question Matrix: Matching Allegations to Digital Sources
- → Departing Employee: First 24 Hours of Digital Evidence
- → The Prosecution Has Served a Phone Extraction: What Should the Defence Check First?
- → Don't Ask What Is on the Phone: Framing Forensic Questions
- → Did an Employee Copy Files to a USB Stick? Digital Traces Explained
- → Is This Email Genuine? Seven Digital Clues That Help Authenticate It
- → Who Downloaded That Confidential File? Using M365 Logs to Find Out
- → Screenshots vs Real Conversations: Proving Chat Evidence in UK Courts
- → The digital forensics chain of custody, in plain terms.
Guides
- → Logical vs physical extraction: choosing the right method.
- → What device acquisition means, and why it matters.
- → Forensic triage: getting the right answer, faster.
- → Preserving email evidence: a practical guide for solicitors.
- → Data preservation in 2026: what has changed, and what has not.
- → Cybersecurity for solicitors: the 2026 UK guide.
- → Investigating insider threats without breaking the evidence.
- → The investigation workflow, explained for legal professionals.
- → Password cracking in forensics: techniques and workflow.
- → How to choose a digital forensics company.
- → Computer forensics vs digital forensics: what's the difference?
Forensics & law
- → Instructing a computer expert witness: what solicitors need to know.
- → Legal applications of digital forensics across UK practice.
- → How digital forensics helps solicitors defend their clients.
- → Digital forensic artefacts and their evidential value.
- → Digital document forensics: is that document genuine?
- → The UK digital evidence backlog: what it means for defence teams.
- → Family Court phone evidence that stands up.