The course 'Use of Investigators by the Legal Industry' is provided by Complete Corporate Services, a licenced investigation firm with a long history of providing support to the corporate and legal sectors. This course contains a series of 10 modules which cover:
- The history of private investigators and the introduction of investigation services to the legal industry
- The services provided by private investigators and how these can be used for specific legal matters
- The use of investigation services in specialist areas of law including criminal, commercial, estate, intellectual property, personal injury, domestic violence and family
- The law relating to investigations, privilege, telecommunications intercepts and recording, surveillance and covert operations
- How lawyers may engage private investigators to conduct due diligence, such as during a commercial transaction or for checking a witness' credit
- The use of surveillance in personal injury, family, commercial, intellectual property, liquidation and criminal defence matters
- Intelligence planning, gathering and analysis; how lawyers may utilise investigators for intelligence gathering and analysis for association analysis, analytical flow charting, telephone toll analysis, concealed income analysis, inference development and profiling
- Tips for lawyers to identify a good private investigator and strategies to manage private investigators effectively