Litigation Support
Legal & Litigation Support
Investigative support for advocates and legal teams requiring factual enquiries, tracing, verification, background investigations and evidence gathering.
Overview
What this service covers
Advocates need facts that hold up. Litigation support is investigative work carried out to the standard and the timetable a legal matter demands, under instruction from the legal team.
We work to the issues counsel identifies: tracing and interviewing witnesses, verifying documents and assertions, and recording what is found in a form the legal team can use directly.
Typical situations
When You May Need This Service
A pleaded fact needs testing
An assertion in the opposing case has not been independently checked.
A witness cannot be located
A material witness has moved, changed contact details, or has not been identified at all.
A document requires verification
The provenance or accuracy of a document relied on by a party is in question.
A hearing date is approaching
Factual gaps need closing within a fixed and unforgiving timetable.
Scope
What We Investigate
The enquiries below are the ones most often required. Scope is agreed for each instruction, so a file only carries the work it actually needs.
- Witness tracing and interviewing
- Statement taking
- Factual verification
- Document and provenance enquiries
- Site and premises attendance
- Background enquiries on parties
- Evidence gathering and preservation
Methodology
Our Approach
Each instruction follows the same sequence, so findings can be traced back to how they were established.
Issue-led instruction
We take direction from the legal team on the issues in dispute and the questions our enquiries must address.
Targeted enquiry
Work is confined to those issues, so the file does not fill with material the matter does not need.
Contemporaneous recording
Statements and findings are recorded as they are obtained and attributed to their source.
Delivery to timetable
Reporting is delivered against the deadlines in the matter, with interim updates where the timetable is tight.
Output
What You Receive
Reporting is the product. Every instruction closes with a written record that sets out what was established and on what basis.
Investigation report
Findings set out against the issues the legal team identified.
Witness statements
Accounts recorded from the witnesses traced and interviewed.
Evidence bundle
Documents, photographs and records obtained, indexed and referenced.
Interim updates
Progress reported as the matter requires, rather than only at the end.
Related
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Dedicated investigative support for law firms requiring tracing, verification, background checks, field enquiries, process support and litigation-related investigations.
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Tracing Services
Professional tracing services designed to help establish current contact, location and other relevant information concerning persons of interest.
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Process Service
Professional process service support for legal documents, with appropriate documentation of service attempts and outcomes.
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Questions
Frequently Asked
If your question is not answered here, our team can usually give you a direct answer before you commit to anything.
No. We investigate and report on factual matters. Legal analysis and advice remain with the instructing advocates.
Where an investigator has personally made observations or taken a statement, they can speak to what they did and what they found, if required and if properly summoned.
Ordinarily from the firm. That keeps the work directed by the issues in the matter and the reporting line clear.
Yes. Deadlines are agreed at instruction, and we tell you early if anything threatens them rather than at the deadline itself.
Talk to us about Legal & Litigation Support
Tell us what needs to be established. Our team will confirm scope, turnaround and reporting requirements before any work begins.