Short pieces on bank statements as evidence: what can be proven from the page, how, and what cannot.
September 19, 2026
Section 3 of a Docuritas exhibit pairs transfers across the accounts of a matter and lists the outflows that never arrive in any of them. What the rule is, why a line is listed, and what counsel does with it.
September 19, 2026
A statement ties when every row reconciles to its printed opening and closing balance, and a run of statements chains when each closing is the next opening. How to prepare a matter so that both hold, and so that the other side gets the same result.
September 11, 2026
How long a matter takes, what the caps are, which files are read and which are only recorded, what happens when a scan is only partly legible, and what a foreign statement gets.
September 11, 2026
Most statements in a contested matter arrive as scans, photocopies and partial ranges produced by the other side. What the arithmetic can still prove from those pages, what the file structure cannot, and how the source of a file changes what is checked.
September 11, 2026
A procedure an opposing expert can follow from the exhibit alone: what the findings hash covers, what the file hash covers, and how to rerun the matter and compare.
By Ville Petteri on Medium: The Bank Statement Is the Witness. Learn to Cross-Examine It..