Paul Westwood Forensic Document Examiner
Legal in Manly

We pride ourselves on our lengthy standing professional reputation, our independence and impartiality. The many specialist techniques and approaches we use are explained in more detail below the Services menu. Our Case Studies describe some of the work we have undertaken. Our labor is often used as evidence in court so we ensure appropriate forensic standards and quality assurance are met and that chain of custody is maintained. We are often Court appointed as experts and engaged jointly by multiple parties in matters. Legal practitioners solicitors and barristers. DDS provides services throughout Australia and internationally, particularly in Asia, and has some forensic instrumentation in Singapore and Cong Kong for those instances where the items cannot be sent to our stuffed service laboratories in Australia. DDS also conducts one and two day feasible and theoretical workshops for certain clients, providing an in depth gratitude of the labor of forensic document examiners and touching on fingerprint detection and analysis, as well as tailored workshops designed to the requirements of the client. CAPTCHA This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to hinder automated spam submissions. DDS also provides services internationally, particularly in Asia, and has some forensic instrumentation in Singapore and Cong Kong for those instances where the items cannot be sent to our full service laboratories in Australia. In addition to continually investing in fresh and emerging forensic document instrumentation, over the past three years DDS has expanded its range of services to include fingerprint detection and analysis. As the range of services and techniques has expanded and the demand for services has grown, the team now consists of five examiners. He has extensive court experience throughout Australia and overseas spanning a period of more than forty years. Paul was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 1982 for services in the field of forensic document examination whilst a member of the Australian Federal Police. He was awarded the National Medal in 1984 in respect of police service. She has testified and been accepted as an expert in the examination of handwriting and questioned documents on several occasions prior Tribunals, Magistrates, District, Supreme and Family Courts in many jurisdictions throughout Australia as well as in foreign Tribunals and Courts. He regularly presents workshops and lectures on the applications of forensic document examination to investigators and lawyers. He has extensive court experience in Australia and overseas (including UK, Cong Kong, Singapore, and Bermuda) spanning a period of over twenty five years. He has provided expert reports on a wide range of document examination matters including examinations of signatures and handwriting (both of which include foreign script examinations), stamp impressions, sequences of writing, photocopy and fax origins, typewriting and document alteration and manipulation. As well as undertaking casework and submitting reports in various jurisdictions across Australia, Andrea conducts research in many areas of forensic document examination with a keen interest in electronic signatures and is involved in the research and development of the technology and its applications both in industry and in forensic examinations. She also presents on the scope of forensic document examination for investigators and lawyers. This involved the use of simple nontoxic techniques to flourish latent fingerprints on the notoriously difficult surface of polymer bank notes. This research is ongoing and Claire maintains an interest in the area of latent fingerprint development.

DDS also provides services internationally, particularly in Asia, and has some forensic instrumentation in Singapore and Cong Kong for those instances where the items cannot be sent to our full service laboratories in Australia. In addition to continually investing in fresh and