About Meridian Edge
Our Story
Our Services
Our Services
Meridian Edge was founded by a former senior leader with 25 years of experience in law enforcement forensics. Having navigated the realities of high-stakes investigations, complex disclosure, and operational pressures, we understand the challenges leaders face because we have lived them.
As a consultancy, we bring that expertise to organizations in need of sharper strategy, stronger leadership, and enhanced forensic capabilities that deliver results, whether in the courtroom, the boardroom, or the frontlines of forensic investigations. Our commitment to digital evidence compliance helps ensure your operations meet the highest standards, including ISO17025 requirements. Meridian Edge exists to turn deep sector knowledge into practical, measurable outcomes for our clients.
Our Services
Our Services
Our Services
Meridian Edge offers specialist consultancy services to law enforcement, regulators, and private sector organisations involved in forensic investigations and digital evidence compliance. We assist leaders in addressing complex challenges across people, processes, and technologies — from reducing backlogs and enhancing disclosure to crafting high-performing teams and ensuring evidential integrity in line with ISO17025 standards.
Our expertise connects operational reality with strategic ambition, empowering clients to develop forensic and investigative capabilities that are resilient, compliant, and future-ready, backed by effective leadership strategy.
Our Approach
Our Services
Our Approach
At Meridian Edge, we operate as trusted advisors, not just as a consultancy. Our approach is grounded in a deep understanding of forensic investigations and digital evidence compliance, shaped by decades of real-world experience. We work in partnership with clients to unpick their most complex challenges, delivering tailored strategies that reflect their operational context, constraints, and ambitions, including adherence to ISO17025 standards.
Every solution is bespoke, and every recommendation is evidence-led. We measure success not just by reports delivered but by enhanced capabilities, mitigated risks, and achieved outcomes, all while aligning with a strong leadership strategy.
Bridging People, Process & Technology in Investigations
Forensic Services for Law Firms & Regulators
Forensic Services for Law Firms & Regulators
Forensic Services for Law Firms & Regulators
Law firms and regulators increasingly encounter complex, high-stakes forensic investigations where digital evidence compliance is pivotal, yet access to credible, senior-level forensic consultancy is limited. Without expert oversight, investigations risk flawed methodologies, missed evidence, and vulnerability to challenge in court or regulatory proceedings. The cost isn’t just reputational; it results in cases lost, fines issued, and justice denied. Our Solution: Every case is led personally by our founder, a forensics leader with over 20 years of experience managing complex digital forensic investigations for national agencies and regulators. We provide forensic acquisition, analysis, reporting, and expert witness services, all delivered to evidential standards, including ISO17025, that withstand the highest levels of scrutiny and reflect a strong leadership strategy.
Cyber Security & Data Breach Response
Forensic Services for Law Firms & Regulators
Forensic Services for Law Firms & Regulators
Organizations often lack the expertise necessary for investigating and containing complex data breaches, cyber incidents, and insider threats, which leads to mismanaged responses and compromised integrity of digital evidence compliance. Poorly handled breaches expose organizations to regulatory penalties, litigation risks, reputational damage, and loss of critical data. Furthermore, inadequate forensic investigations weaken post-incident evaluations and responses.
Our Consultancy Solution: We offer expert-led incident response consulting that integrates forensic methodologies with robust cyber defense strategies. Our services encompass breach triage, root cause analysis, evidential data capture, and strategic leadership strategies to bolster resilience and ensure compliance with ISO17025 standards.
FSR Code of Practice Compliance
Forensic Services for Law Firms & Regulators
Forensic Team Design & Leadership
Many forensic units and service providers struggle with the necessary systems, processes, and governance to ensure compliance with the Forensic Science Regulator’s Codes of Practice and the ISO 17025 accreditation standards. Without proper digital evidence compliance, the risk of non-compliance can lead to evidence being ruled inadmissible, regulatory sanctions, and a decline in stakeholder confidence—consequences that can significantly derail forensic investigations, prosecutions, and reputations.
Our consultancy, led by a recognized expert with a proven track record of successfully accrediting multiple national forensic laboratories, offers comprehensive support to achieve and maintain FSR compliance and ISO 17025 accreditation. Our tailored leadership strategy includes gap analysis, quality management systems, validation frameworks, proficiency testing, and audit readiness, ensuring clients adhere to the highest evidential and regulatory standards.
Forensic Team Design & Leadership
Large-Scale Digital Disclosure Compliance
Forensic Team Design & Leadership
Skill gaps and ineffective leadership strategies hinder the performance of forensic investigations. Inefficient collaboration between tech experts, legal teams, and investigators reduces effectiveness, particularly in the realm of digital evidence compliance. Our consultancy offers a solution through team design and leadership training, optimizing hiring strategies, role specialization, and agile workflows to enhance forensic outcomes in line with ISO17025 standards.
Large-Scale Digital Disclosure Compliance
Large-Scale Digital Disclosure Compliance
Large-Scale Digital Disclosure Compliance
Organisations often face challenges in implementing cost-effective and efficient disclosure processes that are legally compliant when managing large volumes of digital evidence. Poor management in these areas can lead to failed prosecutions, sanctions, or wrongful convictions due to missed material under CPIA 1996 and Criminal Procedure Rules. Our consultancy offers an end-to-end disclosure strategy that encompasses everything from data collection to courtroom presentation. We ensure digital evidence compliance with the Attorney General's Guidelines and judiciary expectations while aligning with ISO17025 standards. Our leadership strategy enhances forensic investigations, providing a robust framework for handling digital evidence.
Forensic Investigation Backlogs
Large-Scale Digital Disclosure Compliance
Large-Scale Digital Disclosure Compliance
Critical delays in digital forensic processing hinder justice and elevate costs due to inefficient triage and review methods that create bottlenecks in both law enforcement and private sector forensic investigations. Our consultancy offers a solution through workflow automation and AI-assisted prioritisation frameworks, designed to implement effective triage protocols while ensuring digital evidence compliance and adherence to ISO17025 standards, all under a robust leadership strategy.
Digital Evidence Admissibility
Increasing defence challenges over evidence authenticity and forensic investigations are raising concerns about digital evidence compliance and forensic methodology. Chain of custody issues and technical challenges can undermine prosecutions and legal cases. Our consultancy offers expert advisory on evidence integrity, ensuring metadata preservation, audit trails, and readiness for expert testimony to withstand legal scrutiny, all aligned with ISO17025 standards and effective leadership strategy.
Technology Platform Design
Outdated siloed tech stacks lead to high costs, slow processing, and compliance risks in digital evidence compliance. Legacy forensic tools and disjointed eDiscovery software hinder efficient operations for forensic investigations. Our consultancy offers architecture review and future-proof platform design, advising on integrated tools, cloud migration, and AI-enhanced analysis to improve speed and accuracy, aligning with ISO17025 standards and strengthening your leadership strategy.