A consolidated evidence and intelligence pack assembled before proceedings are issued, so a legal team enters a dispute with a defensible factual base.
Legal teams preparing to issue proceedings often need several strands of factual groundwork assembled quickly: a party's asset position, forensically preserved digital evidence, witness availability, and the corporate structure of an opposing party. Defamation matters carry an additional, more time-sensitive need: documenting who published a defamatory statement, how far it spread, and what harm resulted, before a letter before action is sent. Requesting these strands separately, at different points as the case develops, is slower and costs more in coordination than commissioning a single, consolidated pack scoped to the specific matter before proceedings are issued.
A consolidated pre-litigation pack combining the specific intelligence strands your matter requires, asset visibility, forensically sound digital evidence preservation, corporate structure analysis, witness location, or defamation-specific evidence of publication and reach, into one coordinated engagement delivered ahead of issuing proceedings.
Scoped to the specific strands your matter actually needs
Forensically sound digital evidence capture with full metadata, timestamp verification and chain-of-custody documentation where a matter turns on preserving web, social media or communications content before it can be altered or deleted
Defamation-specific evidence of publication, authorship and reach where the matter is heading toward a letter before action or defamation claim
One named analyst coordinating all strands rather than separate engagements
Delivered as a single, structured pack for your legal team
Findings sourced and documented to evidential standard throughout
Scoped and timed to your pre-action timetable
Combines our standard methodology for each relevant strand, asset tracing, forensic digital evidence capture and preservation, corporate research, witness location, open-source identity research into anonymous or pseudonymous publishers where a matter is defamation-specific, coordinated by a single named analyst and delivered as one consolidated pack rather than separate disconnected reports.
Scope is confirmed on your call and tailored to the matter, commonly combining Asset Visibility, digital evidence preservation, and corporate or witness research depending on what the dispute actually requires.
Coordinating multiple strands under one analyst reduces duplication and coordination overhead, which is the main efficiency this pack offers over separate, sequential instructions.
Yes. Turnaround is confirmed against your pre-action timetable at the outset, and prioritised accordingly. Digital evidence at risk of deletion can typically begin capture within hours of instruction.
Forensic capture can usually begin within hours of instruction, with full metadata, timestamp verification and chain-of-custody documentation so the capture can withstand a challenge to authenticity later.
Yes. Where a matter concerns a defamatory publication, false review or online attack, the pack can include preservation of the content, identity research into an anonymous or pseudonymous publisher where achievable, and evidence of the publication's reach, structured for direct handover to your defamation solicitor ahead of a letter before action.
The pack still has value as a factual record and can inform a settlement negotiation or a decision not to pursue the matter, which is itself a useful outcome.
Yes, through our relevant Monitor tier subscriptions, Evidence Monitoring, Defendant & Asset Monitoring and others, which extend this same coverage for the life of a dispute.
Every enquiry is reviewed by an analyst and routed to a scoping call, a fixed fee is confirmed in writing before any work begins.