Diaries

Diaries are used by many people in all walks of life for both personal and professional purposes. 

They are often put forward in court cases as evidence supporting a person's alleged version of events at a particular date and time.  Their date of preparation is, therefore, frequently called into question.

A detailed study of the disputed entries using microscopy, photoanalytical and electrostatic forensic document examination techniques often shows that a suspect entry or entries could not have been made as part of an ongoing contemporaneous record.

Related case studies: 

Diary entry addition

A case was submitted which required determining whether an entry in a diary that read "Meeting 2pm Signing Wend" (sic) was all written sequentially on the one occasion. 

Related content: 
forensic document examination
ink examination
VSC
microscope

Employee mistreatment

In an Industrial Relations hearing, an employee was claiming workplace harassment.  As part of the evidence put forward in support of the claim was the employee's diary which included numerous entries purporting to be a record of the occurence of the harassment. 

Related content: 
ink examination
sequencing & relative dating
writing impression examination
ESDA
VSC