Case studies
Anonymised summaries of expert reports I have prepared. All details that could identify the parties or the proceedings have been removed.
Invoice fraud through business email spoofing
A foreign customer paid several invoices into a fraudulent account. Who bore technical responsibility: the supplier or the customer?
Read the case →Negative Google Maps reviews from people who were never customers
Expert report proving which negative reviews of a business did not come from real customers.
Read the case →Was one LED panel a copy of another? A technical similarity report
External and internal comparison of two LED panels from different manufacturers in criminal proceedings over possible copying.
Read the case →An ERP implementation planned for five months that took four years
Expert report on the implementation and functionality of an ERP system at a services company.
Read the case →Valuing a damaged mobile phone: repair or replace?
Report establishing the replacement value of a high-end phone damaged in a fall, for court proceedings.
Read the case →Rebuttal report: unauthorised access to a computer and a server?
Technical review of an earlier report alleging improper access to an employee's computer and an organisation's server.
Read the case →Fibre optic cable damaged by excavation: who should have prevented it and what does repair cost?
Court-appointed expert report on the repair of a buried fibre optic cable broken during roadside works.
Read the case →Repair of copper cables after a flooded utility chamber
Court-appointed expert report on the source of the water and the repair costs of telephone network infrastructure.
Read the case →Email fraud: was the email intercepted at the sender's or the recipient's end?
Security analysis of a company's email platform (Office 365) after a customer paid invoices into a fraudulent account.
Read the case →Rebuttal report: a data leak accusation without solid evidence
Technical review of a report accusing a former employee of taking sensitive company information.
Read the case →Were the contracted digital marketing services actually delivered?
Court-appointed expert report on whether the documents submitted proved the delivery of online advertising campaigns and web presence services.
Read the case →Court valuation of IT equipment stolen from a school
Updated valuation of computers and projectors stolen from a state secondary school, commissioned by an investigating court.
Read the case →Other expert work
I have also prepared expert reports in these areas, which are not described for confidentiality reasons:
- Digital evidence in employment disputes: analysis of work devices, the corporate server, email and social media to document the use of company resources, with hashing and timestamp analysis.
- Authenticity, integrity and certification of emails and WhatsApp messages: verifying from headers, servers and devices that messages come from their stated sender and have not been altered, and certifying the emails sent and received from a specific computer.
- Authenticity of phone calls and call records: cross-checking the handset's call log against the operator's bills to establish dates, duration and the parties involved.
- Forensic audio analysis: detecting signs of tampering in audio files and comparing voices against a reference sample of known origin.
- Documenting public online and social media content: recorded capture of profiles, posts and videos (dates, statistics and apparent authorship) so they are not lost if deleted.
- Technical review of electronic administrative files: checking that the index and documents are complete, in order and correctly e-signed.
- Verification of photos on mobile phones: extracting the images and analysing their metadata (date, time and device) to establish when and with which handset they were taken.
- Authorship and history of websites and blogs: reconstructing the content of defunct sites using public web archives and domain registration data.
- Financial damage from website attacks: assessing the technical scope of the attack and the reasonable cost of restoring service (reinstallation, backups and updates).
- Valuation of stolen mobile phones: value at the date of the incident, to set civil liability in criminal proceedings.
- TV reception installations: inspecting a digital terrestrial TV aerial and its cabling to establish its condition and operation in a dispute.