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Instructing an investigator, privilege and disclosure, admissibility, and the services firms actually retain: the counsel-facing shelf, on one page.
Field Notes written for counsel
- Instructing an Investigator as Counsel: Privilege, Scope Letters and What to Put in Writing Litigation privilege, the dominant purpose test, surveillance disclosure, and what belongs in the scope letter.
- Social Media Evidence in Claims: What’s Admissible and What Gets Excluded What makes social media evidence admissible in an Ontario claim, and why a bare screenshot rarely survives a real challenge.
- Asset Searches in Ontario: What’s Findable Before Judgment, and After What is lawfully searchable, what is not, and the enforcement tools a judgment unlocks.
- How Skip Tracing Actually Works in Canada The lawful source stack, what investigators genuinely cannot touch, and why free people-search sites fail.
- Digital Forensics: What’s Recoverable, and What’s Admissible What forensics can recover, and what separates recoverable data from admissible evidence.
- WSIB Surveillance: What Employers and Claimants Should Know What it looks for, how evidence holds up at a hearing, and the privacy rights claimants keep.
- Coercive Control and Canadian Law: Where Things Actually Stand Bill C-16, why it already matters in family court, and how patterns are documented.
- Ontario Auto Insurance Changes July 2026: What SABS Reform Means for Claims Mandatory versus optional benefits, auto-pays-first coordination, and what it changes for claims investigations.
- Hidden Assets in an Ontario Divorce The documented grounds that justify disclosure motions: registries, lawful observation, and the s. 56(4) end-game.
- Custody Investigations: What Helps, and What Backfires Scoping investigator work to the best-interests question your motion actually asks.
The law that governs the work
- Surveillance evidence in family court The best-interests test, lawful pattern documentation, and the self-help that reliably backfires.
- Recording conversations in Ontario: the one-party consent rule When recording a conversation is lawful, what counts as unlawful interception, and the caveats that matter.
- WSIB claim surveillance: what is allowed and what holds up How surveillance fits Ontario’s workplace-injury framework, and what survives adjudication and appeal.
- PIPEDA and lawful surveillance The default rule of consent, the narrow investigative exception, and what it does not cover.
- How to verify your Ontario investigator is licensed Two licences to confirm, how to check them, and why we publish our agency licence number.
Services counsel retains
- Covert Surveillance Timestamped video, detailed logs and court-ready reporting, gathered without the subject ever knowing.
- Locates and Skiptracing Debtors, witnesses, missing family and heirs, located through licensed channels and confirmed on the ground.
- Digital Forensics and Recovery Forensically sound imaging and chain-of-custody analysis.
- OSINT and Social Media Investigations Open-source evidence collected, verified and preserved.
- Insurance and Claims Investigations Motor vehicle, workplace, property and seasonal sports claims.
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