The value of a mobile phone expert is not the extraction, which is largely a matter of the right hardware and licences. The value is the ability to frame the question the tribunal actually needs answered, and to answer it in language a judge will follow and an opponent cannot easily dismantle.
What we do for instructing solicitors
- Scope the instruction so the report answers the pleaded issues, not everything the phone happens to contain.
- Preserve the device to a standard that survives cross examination on the chain of custody.
- Extract to the depth the case requires, and no further, to keep the work proportionate.
- Report to CPR Part 35, CrimPR Part 19 or FPR Part 25, depending on the forum.
- Attend court when the report is challenged, and defend the methodology under questioning.
What we ask you for in return
A clear list of the questions in issue, the device, any known passcodes recorded separately, and the deadline. With those four things in hand, most instructions can be scoped and quoted within a working day.