Surveillance Culture – A rogue industry under scrutiny

I last wrote about insurance company-instructed covert surveillance back in 2013. In that article (PI Focus, October 2013, page 12), I voiced my concern about the unsavoury and unethical tactics being routinely used by both the private investigation firms instructed to gather the evidence and those individuals tasked with the actual filming of the claimant. […]

Eye spy – Why the rules on surveillance evidence need to change

As a personal injury claimant lawyer, at some point, you will undoubtedly have received covertly gathered video evidence that purports to show your client carrying out activities over and above their stated limitations. Do you look at that evidence and accept that what it shows is the true version of events? That the surveillance has […]