UK High Court, Administrative Court · 2017 · Fabrication
Accident Exchange Ltd v Broom and Others
[2017] EWHC 1096 (Admin)
What happened
Accident Exchange Ltd was found to have fabricated evidence on an industrial scale across numerous personal injury cases. The scheme involved manipulating telephone records and altering expert reports, with the false records sourced from Autofocus Ltd's centralised claims database. Forensic analysis of the database records revealed that calls claimed to have taken place had never occurred, and that expert reports had been modified. The court found deliberate, systematic fabrication spanning multiple cases and multiple parties. Contempt proceedings followed. The case is significant because it demonstrates that third-party centralised databases, not just a party's own systems, are vulnerable to deliberate manipulation, and that detection required extensive forensic work. An independent, immutable record of each data entry at the point of creation would have made the discrepancies immediately apparent.
Outcome
Systematic fabrication proven across multiple cases. Significant civil and related proceedings followed. Contempt findings against multiple parties.
Sources
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