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Our laboratory encompasses a wide range of Forensic Document examinations and our specific services include: 

• Handwriting examination and comparison
  
• Signature examination and comparison
  
• Alterations, additions and substitutions to a document
  
• Ink and paper analysis
  
• Examination of documents for presence of indented impressions of writing
  
• Sequencing of entries
  
  

A range of scientific instrumentation is used whilst undertaking the various forensic examinations of documents.

Included in our past casework we have examined:

• Graffiti on trains, walls, windows and floors
  
• Signatures on works of art to establish genuineness
  
• Altered medical records
  
• Diaries of adolescents where sexual abuse was alleged
  
• Alteration to exam papers
  
• Highly sensitive Government papers to establish a leak
  
• Police notebooks
  
• Breath and Blood Alcohol Procedure Sheet
  
• Forged Wills
  
• Forged Contracts bearing genuine signatures
  
• Threatening anonymous letters – to reveal the source from a large pool of suspects
  
• Suicide notes
  
  

We have also worked on several high profile murder trials in New Zealand including those of Scott Watson and the Ewan McDonald / Scott Guy case.