Expert Experiment in Modern Technical and Forensic Examination of Documents in the Context of the Civil Process

The article examines the practical significance of the expert experiment in the forensic technical examination of documents in the resolution of civil and commercial disputes. Based on examples from practice, the authors conclude that reliance solely on standard diagnostic complexes set out in methodological guidelines may lead to erroneous conclusions because of the diversity of trace-formation mechanisms and the incomplete description of such mechanisms in the methodological literature. The article considers the proposition that technological changes often result in the emergence of new features or in changes to the existing pattern of features. In other words, methodologies developed based on previously collected empirical material do not always keep pace with changes in the equipment used to produce documents. The article substantiates the need to advance alternative hypotheses and to test them by means of experiment, which is often the only way to verify competing versions objectively.

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