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Comparitative authorship analysis Sociolinguistic profiling Disputed meaning Disputed interpretation Cryptoanalysis Other CFL FLAIR: One year of cases. Matthew Baldock & Tim Grant [email protected] & [email protected] Background Forensic Linguistic Advice Investigation and Research - the CFL Consultancy was launched May 2008. In the year May 2008 - May 2009: FLAIR consultants have taken on consultancy in 21 cases. FLAIR consultants have written 18 evidential reports. FLAIR consultants between them have had one Crown Court Appearance, evidence used in court on three others occasions, and have four potential appearances due over the next six months. FLAIR consultants have turned down more invitations to take cases than we have accepted. Consultancy Services MSc Forensic Linguistics PhD Research Degrees Postgraduate Courses Professional Courses www.forensiclinguistics.net Report written Who sent a text message from this communal phone? Drug dealing Police No report written Could the over-heard phrase ‘come here man be’ intended as a threat? Suspicious death case Police Case declined Was this historic witness statement dictated to shorthand and then transcribed? Disputed conviction CCRC Case declined Was this diary written by a teenager or an adult? Historic abuse case Defence solicitor Report written. Prosecution report withdrawn. Is this a good ‘expert’ report? Response to other expert Defence solicitor* Case declined Can you give me a contact for a Roma interpreter? Interpretation Police Report & Court appearance: Conviction. Was this suicide letter written by our suspect? Fraud and firearms investigation Police Case declined Can I read a text message over the phone to you and you tell me what it means? Murder investigation Police Passed to crypto-analyst (who also failed to decode!) Can you decode this letter found at the suspect’s home? Murder case Police Report written Were these emails written by the mother or her father? Child custody dispute Private client Report written Trial pending. Were these text messages from the victim’s phone written by the suspect?` Murder case Police* Insufficient evidence to write report Is their evidence of collusion in this set of witness statements? Personal injury group action Solicitor Report written Is their linguistic evidence of additions being made to this diary entry? Historic murder case Northern Ireland Police Ombudsman Report written, no suspect identified, letters stopped. Can you provide a profile of the writer of this series of letters threatening to put poisons into a supermarkets products? Threat of product tampering Police Report written. Trial pending. Does this Internet Relay Chat contain a threat to kill? Can you translate this phone log and these rap songs into standard English? Conspiracy to murder Crown Prosecution Service Report written. Possible trial pending. Did my client’s partner write these emails? Dissolution of commercial partnership Private client Report written. Has my book been plagiarised? Copyright infringement Private client Insufficient data to form an opinion. Is this employee writing abusive letters to himself? Industrial tribunal Commercial solicitors Outcome Query Context Client * More than one case fitting this description was accepted. Cases were selected from files to indicate diversity of activity. Centre for Forensic Linguistics Key to doughnut chart Inner ring – 29 declined cases. Outer ring – 21 accepted cases Other Decoding Disputed Interpretation Disputed meaning Sociolinguistic profiling Comparative authorship analysis
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Comparitative authorship analysis Sociolinguistic profiling
Disputed meaning Disputed interpretation
Cryptoanalysis Other
CFL FLAIR: One year of cases.
Matthew Baldock & Tim [email protected] & [email protected]
BackgroundForensic Linguistic Advice Investigation and Research - the CFL Consultancy was launched May 2008. In the year May 2008 - May 2009:
� FLAIR consultants have taken on consultancy in 21 cases.
� FLAIR consultants have written 18 evidential reports.
� FLAIR consultants between them have had one Crown Court Appearance, evidence used in court on three others occasions, and have four potential appearances due over the next six months.
� FLAIR consultants have turned down more invitations to take cases than we have accepted.
Consultancy Services
MSc Forensic Linguistics
PhD Research Degrees
Postgraduate Courses
Professional Courses
www.forensiclinguistics.net
Report writtenWho sent a text message from this communal phone?Drug dealingPolice No report writtenCould the over-heard phrase ‘come here man be’ intended as a threat?Suspicious death casePolice
Case declinedWas this historic witness statement dictated to shorthand and then transcribed?Disputed convictionCCRCCase declinedWas this diary written by a teenager or an adult?Historic abuse caseDefence solicitor
Report written.Prosecution report withdrawn.
Is this a good ‘expert’ report? Response to other expertDefence solicitor*Case declinedCan you give me a contact for a Roma interpreter?InterpretationPolice
Report & Court appearance: Conviction.
Was this suicide letter written by our suspect?Fraud and firearms investigation
PoliceCase declinedCan I read a text message over the phone to you and you tell me what it means?Murder investigationPolice
Passed to crypto-analyst (who also failed to decode!)
Can you decode this letter found at the suspect’s home?Murder casePoliceReport writtenWere these emails written by the mother or her father?Child custody disputePrivate client
Report written Trial pending.
Were these text messages from the victim’s phone written by the suspect?`Murder casePolice*
Insufficient evidence to write report
Is their evidence of collusion in this set of witness statements?Personal injury group action
Solicitor
Report writtenIs their linguistic evidence of additions being made to this diary entry?Historic murder caseNorthern Ireland Police Ombudsman
Report written, no suspect identified, letters stopped.
Can you provide a profile of the writer of this series of letters threatening to put poisons into a supermarkets products?
Threat of product tampering
Police
Report written. Trial pending.
Does this Internet Relay Chat contain a threat to kill?Can you translate this phone log and these rap songs into standard English?
Conspiracy to murderCrown Prosecution Service
Report written. Possible trial pending.
Did my client’s partner write these emails?Dissolution of commercial partnership
Private client
Report written.Has my book been plagiarised?Copyrightinfringement
Private client
Insufficient data to form an opinion.
Is this employee writing abusive letters to himself?Industrial tribunalCommercial solicitors
OutcomeQueryContextClient
* More than one case fitting this description was accepted. Cases were selected from files to indicate diversity of activity.
Centre for Forensic Linguistics
Key to doughnut chart
Inner ring – 29 declined cases.Outer ring – 21 accepted cases
OtherDecoding
Disputed InterpretationDisputed meaning
Sociolinguistic profilingComparative authorship analysis
