asic v managed investments case also moving, page-3

Not the full report, just a bit of history.


Mark Garnett is a Partner of McGrathNicol Forensic, the leader of its Forensic Technology team and specialises in seizing and analysing digital evidence, data recovery, electronic discovery, electronic evidence preservation and conducting other computer related and fraud investigations.
A qualified investigator and forensic technology practitioner with 14 years experience as a Detective in the Queensland Police Service and over nine years specialist forensic experience, Mark has led a broad range of matters in Australia and overseas involving digital evidence recovery and analysis, network intrusion, asset tracing and misappropriation.
Mark has extensive experience across a wide range of industry sectors including business services, financial services, government, insurance, manufacturing, retail and technology.
Examples include:
- provided expert witness services with regard to the discovery process undertaken by a major Australian bank, including critiquing reports provided by the bank to determine whether or not the discovery process was undertaken correctly;
- provided expert testimony in the New South Wales Supreme Court regarding a forensic technology analysis performed for a murder investigation including conducting an analysis, providing a statement to the Court on the results and subsequently providing evidence with regard to these results;
- led the forensic technology analysis, investigation and data warehousing of all electronic information and data relating to the HIH corporate collapse;
- provided forensic technology assistance to a leisure company with respect to the production of electronic information to legal teams in the USA as a result of discovery orders, including the capture, analysis and preservation of a substantial amount of electronic evidence and developing methodologies for data production;
- managed an investigation for APRA with respect to a global insurance institution involving liaising with the subject organisation to ensure all APRA orders for the production of information were met and conducting keyword searches for relevant data; and
- project managed the implementation of a full service electronic discovery capability in support of investigations arising out of corporate collapses and to support specific litigation proceedings.