Trials, Civil & Criminal
When it comes to trials and formal hearings, Merrill Legal Solutions offers a range of services for clients working in the legal sector – whether it’s a high profile court case, a complex fraud trial or a long running arbitration or dispute resolution.
These services are also useful for clients in other sectors who are organising formal proceedings, for example in disciplinary hearings, including military tribunals or courts martial, or major internal inquiries where the results will ultimately be shared more widely.
What services do we offer?
It all starts with good preparation. Merrill can help you collect and organise your evidence or supporting information by scanning, copying and coding documents, as well as recovering electronic data from hard drives, CDs and DVDs. We can transcribe meetings or telephone calls, providing a verbatim, searchable record of what’s been said. And we can translate written material, or provide an interpreter.
Once the trial or hearing is underway, Merrill can quickly and efficiently capture what’s being said, help you manage the evidence, and open up proceedings to a wider audience. Traditional stenography or digital audio recording and transcription provide a full written account of proceedings. Real-time reporting gives participants the chance to read what’s being said, as it’s being said. Live broadcasts allow you to share running coverage of a trial or testimony with members of the public, the media, or other stakeholders.
Who uses these services?
We are regularly instructed by major law firms, prosecuting agencies, such as the Crown Prosecution Service, the Offices of the Directors of Public Prosecutions in Australia, Serious Fraud Office, HMRC and the Health and Safety Executive. We have been entrusted to provide services for the most high profile court hearings in recent years, around the world, including:
