Handwriting and Documents
Hayward Associates can assist you in cases involving handwriting and questioned documents by, for example:
- Determining authorship of handwriting or signatures by comparing questioned text with known writings
- Indicating whether simulation (copying) of handwriting has occurred
- Showing whether or not questioned printed text, or a photocopy, was produced on a particular machine
- Deciphering handwritten or printed altered entries
- Examining wholly or partially counterfeited documents
- Identifying differences in inks and papers within a document which might indicate substitution or alteration
- Enhancing indented impressions of handwriting to provide information and sequencing of writing
- Assessing evidence provided by the Defence or Prosecution
- Evaluating and interpreting Prosecution statements
- Preparation of single joint expert reports
- Assistance in Civil matters
- Passports