Materials to help prepare for a dispute about a signature, handwritten entry, specimens and an expert report.
Differences between signatures may result from different writers as well as the conditions of execution. When preparing materials, it is important to report known circumstances without treating them as a predetermined explanation for the disputed features.
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A document copy may contain useful information about the form of the handwriting, but it does not reproduce every property of the original stroke and material. The suitability of a copy is therefore…
Read article →Practical steps for preparing the original, copies and comparison specimens.
Read →When a copy is suitable for preliminary assessment and what limitations arise.
Read →Free, conditionally free and experimental specimens: the differences.
Read →Formulating questions for court and pretrial examination.
Read →How to recognise a disputed or incomplete report, or one requiring review.
Read →Why a dispute over a signature often becomes central to inheritance and debt cases.
Read →Why you must not trace over a signature, add marks or fold the document at the element in question.
Read →How examinations of signatures, handwriting, seals, document elements and methods of document production differ.
Read →State which document is to be examined, whether the original exists, which specimens are available and why the report is needed: court, a notary, an inheritance dispute, a corporate dispute or a pretrial claim.
