Surveillance During Sickness Investigations
Covert surveillance is the investigative method most commonly instructed in sickness absence fraud investigations, and the one most likely[…]
Social Media Evidence in Sickness Claims
Social media has transformed the evidence landscape in sickness absence investigations. Employees who are absent from work claiming incapacity[…]
Signs of Sickness Absence Fraud
Sickness absence fraud — the practice of claiming sick pay or sick leave for periods when an employee is[…]
Return-to-Work Investigation Procedures
The return-to-work process is one of the most underused tools in absence management. Most employers conduct some form of[…]
Occupational Health vs Private Investigations
When managing a long-term or complex sickness absence, employers often face a choice about which external resource to deploy:[…]
Managing Repeat Sickness Patterns
Repeat short-term sickness absence is one of the most operationally disruptive and legally complex challenges in people management. It[…]
Long-Term Sick Leave Abuse
Long-term sickness absence — conventionally defined as a continuous absence of four weeks or more — presents employers with[…]
Legal Considerations in Sickness Fraud Investigations
Sickness fraud investigations sit at the intersection of employment law, data protection, and investigatory regulation. An employer who commissions[…]
How Employers Prove Sickness Fraud
Proving sickness fraud to the standard required for a defensible disciplinary dismissal is a specific and demanding evidential exercise.[…]
Investigating Moonlighting Employees
Moonlighting — the practice of an employee taking secondary employment or running a business without their employer’s knowledge or[…]
Source Code Theft Investigations
Source code is among the most valuable assets a technology business holds, and among the most targeted by employees[…]
Recovering Deleted Digital Evidence
One of the most common assumptions in digital investigations is also one of the most consequential: that deleted data[…]
Ransomware Investigation Process
Ransomware is one of the most operationally and financially disruptive categories of cyber attack, and one of the few[…]
Enforcing Judgments Through Investigations
A judgment is the beginning of the enforcement process, not the end of it. The court has determined that[…]
Mobile Device Investigations
Mobile devices have become the most evidentially rich category of digital evidence available in most investigations. They carry a[…]
Investigating Insider Threats
Insider threats are the category of cyber and information security risk that organisations most consistently underestimate and most expensively[…]
Intellectual Property Theft by Employees
Intellectual property is, for many businesses, their most valuable asset. The brand that customers recognise, the process that gives[…]
Employee Monitoring and Digital Evidence
Workplace monitoring of employee digital activity is a practice that has become significantly more common as the proportion of[…]
Cryptocurrency Tracing Investigations
Cryptocurrency was once assumed by cybercriminals to be untraceable — a digital cash that could be used to receive[…]
Computer Forensic Investigations
Computer forensic investigation is the examination of desktop computers, laptops, and servers for evidence of activity that is relevant[…]
Cyber Incident Response Investigations
A cyber incident response investigation is the structured process through which an organisation identifies, contains, investigates, and recovers from[…]
Business Email Compromise Investigations
Business email compromise is one of the most financially damaging cyber threats facing businesses of every size. Unlike ransomware,[…]
Employee Data Theft Investigations
Data theft by employees is one of the most consequential categories of business risk, and one that the digital[…]
Dark Web Investigations
The ‘Dark Web‘ is the part of the internet that is not indexed by standard search engines and is[…]
Data Breach Investigations
A data breach investigation is one of the most time-pressured and legally complex exercises a business can face. Under[…]
Employee Harassment Investigations
Harassment investigations are among the most difficult workplace enquiries an organisation can face. The subject matter is inherently sensitive.[…]
How a Corporate Fraud Investigation Works
When a client calls me about a fraud concern, the conversation rarely begins with certainty. It begins with a[…]
Gross Misconduct Investigations
Gross misconduct is a category that carries more legal weight than most employers fully appreciate until they are in[…]
Investigation Interviews Best Practices
The interview is the stage of a workplace investigation where the most significant mistakes are made, and where the[…]
ACAS Workplace Investigation Guidelines
The ACAS Code of Practice on Disciplinary and Grievance Procedures is the framework against which employment tribunals assess whether[…]
Investigating Whistleblower Allegations
Whistleblower investigations sit at one of the most legally sensitive intersections in workplace practice. The individual making the disclosure[…]
How to Write an Investigation Report
The investigation report is the document through which everything the investigation has gathered is transformed into a form the[…]
Digital Forensic Investigations Explained
I’ve stood in front of a judge holding up a hash value printout, and I’ve sat with an HR[…]
Anonymous Workplace Complaints
Anonymous complaints create a specific set of challenges that named complaints do not. The organisation cannot go back to[…]
Invoice Fraud Warning Signs
Invoice fraud is, in volume terms, one of the most common forms of financial fraud affecting UK businesses. It[…]
Workplace Bullying Investigations
Workplace bullying investigations present a specific set of challenges that other misconduct enquiries do not. The conduct is usually[…]
Internal Investigation Procedures
Internal investigation procedures are the organisational infrastructure through which a business identifies, responds to, and resolves concerns about employee[…]
How to Investigate Employee Misconduct
The quality of an employee misconduct investigation is rarely judged at the time it is conducted. It is judged[…]
Vendor Fraud and Supplier Fraud
Supplier fraud is the category of commercial fraud I am asked to investigate most frequently by organisations that consider[…]
Conducting a Fair Workplace Investigation
Fairness in a workplace investigation is not an abstract virtue. It is a legal requirement, a governance standard, and[…]
Embezzlement Investigations
Embezzlement investigations are in high demand for our corporate investigators. Embezzlement is the form of corporate fraud that tends[…]
Payroll Fraud Detection Methods
Payroll fraud sits in an uncomfortable place for most organisations. It is a clever financial fraud that can often[…]
Ghost Employee Fraud Investigations Explained
Of all the payroll fraud schemes I investigate, ghost employee fraud has a particular quality that I find clients[…]
Director Fraud Investigations
Director fraud is, in my experience, the most consequential category of internal fraud that an organisation can face. Not[…]
Procurement Fraud Red Flags
Of all the forms of internal fraud I investigate, procurement fraud tends to produce the largest losses and the[…]
False Accounting Investigations
False accounting is the form of financial fraud I find most difficult to explain to clients who have just[…]
Expense Fraud Investigations Explained
Expense fraud is one of the most common forms of employee fraud we investigate, and consistently one of the[…]
Internal Financial Fraud Investigations
Most of the financial fraud investigations I am asked to conduct begin not with certainty but with unease. A[…]
How Businesses Investigate Employee Fraud
When a business suspects internal fraud, the instinct is often to act immediately — confront the individual, involve HR,[…]
Signs of Employee Fraud in the Workplace
In my experience, employee fraud is rarely the work of a reckless opportunist. The cases we investigate most often[…]
How Cheating Partners Hide Their Infidelity
Infidelity is often accompanied by secrecy, deception, and a range of tactics to keep affairs hidden. When someone is[…]
4 signs your partner is cheating
A Sudden Change in Behavior One of the clearest signs that someone may be cheating is a noticeable shift[…]
What to Do If You Discover Your Partner Is Cheating and How to Navigate Divorce
Discovering that a partner has been unfaithful is an incredibly painful experience. Our Private investigation service can help if[…]
How to find out if your partner is cheating
Discovering that a partner might be unfaithful is a painful experience, but recognizing the signs early can help provide[…]