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This
brochure/guide summarises the information on this site and will quickly
answer most of your questions and inform you what you need to do next. To
save time we recommend you print this guide. Paul
Craddock’s Consultancy Questioned Document Examiners Paul Craddock’s Consultancy, Suite 3, 89 Commercial
Road, Bournemouth, BH2 5RR Tel: 0844 576 3051 office hours 9 to 5 Monday to
Friday E-mail: mail@handwritingexpert.org.uk Web
site: www.handwritingexpert.org.uk
FREE
INITIAL CONSULTATION / ASSESSMENT When
we receive your documents we will make a free initial assessment to ascertain if
we have sufficient material to work with. If we believe that there is sufficient
material available, we will log your report in for completion in a period of up
to approximately 15 working days. If there is no cheque enclosed and/or you are
paying by card, at this stage we will call you to take payment. If we are unable
to proceed and/or you are unable to provide us with additional suitable
materials or documents, no charge will be made and any original documents will
be returned. No
actual opinion will be given at this initial stage other than there is or is not
sufficient material to work with. What
you need to do now You
will need to send your questioned or forged documents or signatures with the
documents or specimens for comparison. You will also need to send an
accompanying letter with your instructions/requirements clearly indicating the
questioned and genuine documents or signatures. If payment has not already been
made you will need to include a cheque in the envelope payable
to; Paul Craddock's Consultancy or make a card payment
for the agreed amount. We strongly recommend that, if sending original
documents, you send your mail by recorded delivery; see address above. Your
report will then be posted back to you, with your documents, by recorded
delivery; depending on our current workload and the complexity of the case,
normally within 15 working days. In the case of a verbal report we will contact
you by phone and post your documents back to you; in most cases within 10
working days. When posting to you we always use recorded delivery when returning
original documents. If
originals are not being sent then you can scan and email your documents, if you
prefer. But please describe and label each document in your e-mail.
Please
note:
Original
documents, if available, are always preferable. Types of report given
Verbal
opinions may be given over the phone. If you need
documentation to defend your case or present some sort of evidence then you
will need a written opinion. There are three types of written opinion; the first
is in the form of a letter which is also suitable as a
record of our verbal opinion; the second is in the form of a full
written report which
contains more detail, reasons for our
opinion and is much more comprehensive than a letter; finally, our report for court, complying with the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR 35), is suitable for
use in court by a solicitor. You may upgrade from one report to another by
paying the difference between the lower and higher priced report. However,
we only write a full report for court for solicitors. Please note: unless you are a
solicitor, local council or government department all reports, including verbal
reports, must be paid for in advance. We are able to accept card payments. The fees below are for comparing one
questioned signature with known signatures. If you have more than one
questioned signature or we are examining pages of handwriting, the amount of
time we will have to spend on your case will increase, so we may
have to increase our fees accordingly. We will advise you of the total cost before
proceeding. Fees
KNOWN
SIGNATURES OR HANDWRITING FOR COMPARISON How
many known signatures or how much known handwriting for comparison do you need
to provide? Ideally, the
average amount of known signatures would be twenty to twenty-five signatures
and/or four to five pages of handwriting; preferably written at different times.
However, due to the practicalities involved, in practice, we often only receive
about half of that number to work with. Each case is different, but as a
guideline; 6 signatures would be the minimum for a letter of opinion and 12 for
a full report. It is in your interest to supply us with as many known signatures
and/or as much known handwriting for comparison as possible. Suggested sources of known signatures and handwriting for comparison with questioned or disputed items Please note:
handwriting should be compared with handwriting and signatures should be
compared with signatures. 1.
Account Books 2.
Affidavits 3.
Assignments 4.
Autographs 5.
Bank Deposit
Slips 6.
Bank Safe
Deposit Entry Slips 7.
Bank Savings
Withdrawal Slips 8.
Bank Signature
Cards 9.
Bank Statements 10.
Bills of Sale 11.
Bonds 12.
Books:
Signatures of Owners 13.
Business License Applications 14.
Charity Pledges 15.
Cheque Book Stubs 16.
Cheques, including Endorsements 17.
Church Pledges 18.
Convention
Registrations 19.
Contracts 20.
Cooking Recipes 21.
Corporation and
Company Papers 22.
College or
University Papers 23.
Criminal Records
24.
Credit
Applications 25.
Credit Cards
& Charge Slips 26.
Dentists’
Records 27.
Deeds 28.
Deeds of Trust 29.
Depositions 30.
Diaries 31.
Divorce Papers 32.
Drafts 33.
Car or Van Hire
Applications 34.
Drivers’
Licenses & Applications 35.
Druggists’
Poison Registers 36.
Employment
Applications 37.
Envelopes & addresses 38.
Fishing Licenses
39.
Funeral
Attendance Registers 40.
Gas or Electric
Service Applications 41.
Gate Records at
secure facilities 42.
Greeting Cards 43.
Hospital Papers 44.
Hotel &
B&B Guest Registers 45.
Identification
Papers 46.
Inventories 47.
Leases 48.
Letters;
Personal &
Business 49.
Library Card
Applications 50.
Electricity
Company Applications 51.
Life Insurance
Papers 52.
Loan Papers 53.
Mail Orders 54.
Manuscripts 55.
Marriage License Papers 56.
Membership
Cards: Social, Occupation 57.
Memoranda of all
kinds 58.
Motor Insurance
documents 59.
Military Papers 60.
Mortgage Papers 61.
National Health Service documents 62.
Newspaper &
Magazine Subscriptions 63.
Occupational
Writing 64.
Package Receipts
65.
Parents’
Signatures on Report Cards 66.
Partnership
Papers 67.
Passports 68.
Pawn Tickets 69.
Payroll Receipts
70.
Pension
Applications 71.
Permit
Applications 72.
Petitions,
Referenda, etc. 73.
Photograph
Albums 74.
Pleadings; Civil
and Criminal 75.
Postal Cards 76.
Probate Court
Papers 77.
Promissory Notes 78.
Prescriptions
from a doctor 79.
Property Damage
Reports 80.
Receipts for
Rent 81.
Registered Mail
Return Receipts 82.
Releases 83.
Rental Contracts
for Equipment 84.
Reports 85.
Sales Slips 86.
School &
College Papers 87.
Social Security
Cards & Papers 88.
Sport & Game
Score Cards 89.
Stock
Certificates, Endorsements 90.
Surety Bonds
Applications 91.
Tax Returns and
Estimates 92.
Telephone
Service Applications 93.
Time Sheets 94.
Traffic Tickets
and fines 95.
Voting
Registration Records 96.
Vehicle / Motor
registration documents 97.
Veterinary
records 98.
Water &
Sewage Company Service Applications 99.
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