By profession, I am a qualified, independent Certified Document Examiner and a graduate of two Training Courses in Questioned Handwriting and Document Examination; Reed Hayes and Katherine Koppenhaver. Law & Procedure training in London was undertaken in 2006/2007 (CUBS), to include modules in Excellence in Report Writing, Courtroom Skills, basic Law & Procedure and familiarity with the updated Civil Procedure Rules. As a professional Document Examiner I adhere to a strict code of ethics and all cases are treated with the utmost respect and confidentiality. By submitting detailed and self-explanatory reports, I aim to eliminate avoidable costs and loss of time in the presentation of Expert Evidence in Courts of Law and the majority of cases have been settled out of court upon presentation of my written opinion.
Document Examination Services is a small but efficient business for scientifically examining documents. I have also received thorough training in questioned documents from an eminent UK forensic document examiner and colleague. I am fully familiar with the verification of questioned signatures and have done this many times in connection with legal proceedings both civil and criminal.
With 18 years experience I have studied in detail the following topics: forgery (including all types of fraud), desktop forgery and counterfeiting, cheque and credit card fraud, disguised writing (distinguishing between disguise and simulation), graffiti, anonymous letters, class characteristics, children's handwriting, letter designs, range of writing, care and handling of documents, health factors including medication and drugs, handwriting measurements, complex handwriting form and features, age deterioration in handwriting, evaluation of printing and numerals, handwriting variables, comparison standards, authentication of handwriting and signatures on paintings, examination of signature and initials on various documents, all altered documents, the examination of non-original documents, degrees of opinion, how to appear as a witness and the business of document examination.
Overall, I have examined thousands of documents in the UK for both defence and prosecution and I am also often appointed as a Single Joint Expert. Specialist services are in rendering professional reports on document and signature authentication for major corporations and manufacturers, government departments including local councils, legal authorities, Equality and Human Rights Commission, solicitors, CPS (United Kingdom Government Crown Prosecution Service, Court expertise as an expert witness has been provided in the UK), HM Prison Service, NHS Trusts, schools and colleges, insurance companies and loss adjustors. The variety of documents include poison pen letters, fraudulent signatures on all legal documents which include Notarised Statements for overseas' signature authentication, including China. I work for Next Retail Legal Department on all issues relating to signature and handwriting comparison.
Questioned document cases may also include signatures on Wills, handwritten anonymous letters, figures and handwriting on cheques, Agreements and Contracts. Despite dependence on computers for communication the complexities of handwriting and signatures will always exist in varying degrees on all every type of document. Every questioned handwriting case is unique and each individual instruction is reviewed logically and objectively in an effort to reach a satisfactory conclusion.
If you have a query on any disputed document, please contact Margaret Webb
on 01189 724002 or, contact a solicitor, for initial general advice.
Wherever possible I will require to examine the original version of the document rather than the copy, because details such as writing pressure and indentations on an original are lost on a copy, erasures may not be clear on copies. Dots and dust specks may be added. The colour of the ink is not visible and the condition of original documents cannot be determined from assessing photocopies.
Updated November 2010
Handwriting comparison - Thames Water Utilities
Handwriting comparison, anon notes - large Textile Company, London
Notarised witness Statement for Chinese Court - private client - Oxon
Handwriting comparison - NIFCC, Ireland
Football Association - handwriting comparison
Handwriting comparison - Catholic School, Birmingham (x2)
Signature comparison - general advice - solicitor London EC4
Handwriting comparison, poison pen letters, Charity for the Blind, Sussex
RG16
Signature dispute Personal Guarantee - Client(s) East Sussex BN23
Verbal advice on signatures - solicitor, Woking GU21
Signature comparison - SBS World Service
Handwriting comparison - criminal case, solicitors Harrow-on-the-Hill
Signature authentication, West Norfolk Council
Anon Letter, residential school, Rutland LE15
Questioned handwriting - school Staffordshire
Questioned signature - UK pharmaceutical company
Child questioned handwriting - solicitors Blackpool
Questioned signatures - car distributor, Redditch B97
Questioned signatures - Insolvency/bankruptcy company UK
Graffiti - engineering company, Redditch
Graffiti - engineering company, Tamworth
Questioned handwriting - restaurant chain, Cheshire
Questioned cheque signature - solicitors P05
Handwriting comparison, child's questioned handwriting - solicitors Lancashire
Questioned documents - Thames Water
Questioned signature - private client
Graffiti problem - engineering company Staffs B79
Handwriting comparison - Will, Solicitors London EC4A
Handwriting comparison, child - Solicitors, Blackpool FY1
Anon Letter/envelope - Distribution Centre, Lincs DN37
Questioned signature Trust Deed - solicitors CH8
Questioned handwriting/signature cheque - solicitors Portsmouth PO5
Questioned Signatures - High Court Case, Solicitors London W1B
Questioned Handwriting of Child - Criminal case, Solicitors Blackpool FY1
Anonymous Notes - Thames Water Utilities
Signature Verification - Joint Instructions Solicitors - Merseyside WA10
Signature Verification - European Patent Office, Munchen, Germany
Signature Verification - High Court/London trial 14th April 2010
Signature Verification - African Development Bank, Tunisia
Signature Authentication - Solicitors, HA8
Anonymous letters & handwritten envelopes - Borough Council, Kent ME19
Signature Verification - Solicitors, Loughborough LE11
Handwriting Comparison - Thames Water Utilities
Signature Comparison - Family Law Solicitors - NN8
Please telephone 01189 724002 (office) or 077678 70295 (mobile) for
up-to-date scale of charges.
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