Is your work product protected under Legal Professional Privilege?

When instructed directly by solicitors or barristers in contemplation of litigation, our work falls under litigation privilege, protecting it from disclosure obligations subject to the specific circumstances of the mandate.

Can you assist during active trial proceedings?

Yes. We regularly support trial teams during active hearings by verifying witness credibility, investigating surprise factual assertions, and conducting urgent overnight field inquiries.

How do you handle sensitive cross-border disputes?

Through established international partnerships and secure communication frameworks, we gather evidence lawfully in overseas jurisdictions for use in UK proceedings under applicable Hague Convention protocols.

Can you assist with Norwich Pharmacal or Bankers Trust applications?

Yes. We conduct the preliminary investigative groundwork — establishing the evidential case for third-party disclosure orders — and prepare the factual foundations needed to support these applications.

Disciplines/Litigation Support & Evidential Practice

Civil Procedure Rules Parts 31, 32 & 35 Standard

Litigation Support Services

Tactical investigative support throughout the civil litigation lifecycle — from pre-action intelligence to trial-day evidence — for solicitors and advocates in the English courts.

The Royal Courts of Justice, Strand, London

Evidential Standard

An adversary who conceals evidence changes the entire equation.

Legal arguments depend on facts. When an opponent misrepresents, conceals, or fabricates, the case is lost before it reaches court — unless the truth can be independently established.

The most dangerous phase of complex commercial litigation is not the trial itself but the period before formal disclosure: the window in which an opposing party moves assets, conditions witnesses, and sanitises electronic records.

Solicitors and advocates who instruct TFTS at the pre-action stage gain a material intelligence advantage — understanding the opponent's true financial position, locating witnesses before they disappear, and identifying evidential inconsistencies before they harden into disputed trial issues.

Our investigators operate under legal professional privilege when instructed by solicitors in contemplation of litigation, maintaining the sanctity of the client relationship throughout.

Litigation Milestones & Evidential Necessity Triggers

Pre-action assessment of defendant financial capacity before committing to expensive litigation

Gathering corroborative evidence to rebut fabricated witness statements and spurious counterclaims

Locating and interviewing former employees holding critical internal knowledge

Tracing assets to support freezing injunction applications under CPR Part 25

Investigating jury or witness interference in sensitive ongoing proceedings

Evidential Support

Litigation Support Scope

04 Legal Capabilities

Opponent Asset Tracing & Solvency Assessment

Establishing defendant wealth, hidden asset structures, and overseas holdings to ensure litigation is economically viable and to underpin freezing injunction applications.

Electronic & Physical Evidence Discovery

Sourcing external documentary proof, physical records, and publicly accessible electronic evidence to corroborate pleaded claims.

Witness Location & Statement Taking

Tracing elusive witnesses and obtaining admissible proofs of evidence to CPR Part 32 standards under cognitive interview protocols.

Witness & Jury Interference Inquiries

Investigating improper coaching, covert inducement, and intimidation of witnesses or jurors in sensitive proceedings.

Judicial Rigour

Case Integration Methodology

PHASE 01

Pleadings Analysis & Evidentiary Mapping

Reviewing Particulars of Claim, Defences, and existing witness statements to identify the critical evidentiary voids that investigative work must fill.

PHASE 02

Targeted Field & Open-Source Research

Executing focused inquiries across international corporate registries, court archives, land registers, and digital intelligence sources.

PHASE 03

Evidentiary Synthesis

Constructing objective comparative matrices contrasting opposing statements against verified facts, surfacing material contradictions.

PHASE 04

Delivery to Counsel

Submitting exhibits, affidavits, and briefing memoranda directly to the instructing legal team in trial bundle compatible formats.

Work Product

Litigation Support Outputs

All deliverables are prepared to CPR Part 31 and Part 32 standards, formatted for direct integration into trial bundles and freezing injunction applications.

Deliverable 01

Court-compliant witness statements sworn or signed with a Statement of Truth

Deliverable 02

Indexed evidence bundles formatted to trial bundle specifications

Deliverable 03

Comparative inconsistency reports highlighting contradictions between opposing evidence and verified facts

Deliverable 04

Asset schedules supporting freezing injunctions under CPR Part 25

Deliverable 05

Investigator court attendance for cross-examination testimony where required

CPR Trial Compliance & Evidential Immunity

Trial bundles, witness statements, and contemporaneous exhibits are prepared to withstand aggressive cross-examination and strict disclosure tests under Civil Procedure Rules Parts 31 & 32.

Evidential Clarity