Firm · Background

Forensics International brings together three specialized forensic disciplines — vehicular accident reconstruction, digital and computer forensics, and audio forensics — under a single roof and a single methodological standard. The firm was assembled around the recognition that complex modern matters increasingly require evidence from more than one discipline, and that coordinating across separate retained experts is a source of inconsistency, friction, and avoidable error.

We are headquartered in Toronto and work assignments across Canada. We are retained by Crown and defence counsel, by plaintiff and defence litigation teams in civil matters, by insurers and self-insured organizations, and by investigative bodies including law enforcement and regulatory agencies. We accept work on either side of any matter and decline work where a conflict exists.

Every report we issue is signed by the examiner who performed the analysis. We do not assign work to associates and review at the principal level; we do not produce opinions under a firm signature with anonymous authorship. The examiner of record is the examiner who deposes and testifies.

Methodology

The standard our work is held to.

01

Evidence, preserved

Whether the evidence is a vehicle, a hard drive, or a recording, we begin with chain-of-custody acquisition. Hash-verified copies of digital media; documented imaging of vehicles and scenes; original recordings preserved unmodified.

02

Examination, in person

Photographs and second-hand descriptions are not substitutes for measurement. Vehicles, devices, and acoustic environments are inspected directly by the examiner of record where physically possible.

03

Methodology, transparent

Every analytical step is documented. Tool versions are recorded. Where the evidence permits alternative interpretations, the alternatives we considered are stated explicitly and addressed on the merits.

04

First principles, then software

Before any simulation or automated analysis is relied upon, the underlying physics or analytical logic is worked through manually. Software accelerates the work; it does not substitute for understanding it.

05

Peer review, internally

Every opinion is reviewed by a second qualified examiner within the firm before it leaves our office. The review is documented and producible in discovery.

06

Defensible, on the stand

The final test of any forensic opinion is whether the examiner who produced it can defend every value, every assumption, and every conclusion under cross-examination. We prepare every engagement for that test.

Examiners and scientists

The people who will sign your report.

Ken Iliadis

B.Sc., P.Phys.

Principal · Accident Reconstruction

Specialty Vehicular collision reconstruction, EDR analysis, visibility & human factors

Ken Iliadis is a Licensed Professional Physicist with over three decades of experience in vehicular accident reconstruction. Based in Toronto, he has spent his career applying the principles of physics and engineering to some of the most complex and consequential collision cases in Ontario. His work spans the full spectrum of reconstruction — collision severity and sequence, vehicle crush and dynamics, seat belt use and effectiveness, illumination and visibility, road design, and bicycle and pedestrian accidents. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Western Ontario, has pursued post-graduate coursework in Transportation Engineering, and has been a Licensed Professional Physicist with the Canadian Association of Physicists since 2000. Since 2007 he has also served as a Senior Reconstructionist with the Special Investigations Unit of the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General, called upon specifically in cases where police involvement and serious or fatal civilian injuries demand the highest standard of technical scrutiny.

Ken has reconstructed hundreds of high-speed and complex collisions over his career, testified as a qualified expert witness in civil and criminal matters before the Superior and Provincial Courts of Ontario, and conducted original research that has had measurable real-world impact — most notably leading a national study on first-generation airbags whose findings contributed directly to the industry-wide depowering of airbag systems, reducing injuries and fatalities across the country. His technical toolkit includes 3D laser scanning, photogrammetry, PC-Crash simulation software, Event Data Recorder analysis, and forensic animation — tools he has not only used in practice but has trained others on and presented at conferences ranging from the SAE World Congress to the Canadian Multidisciplinary Road Safety Conference. His research has been published in peer-reviewed proceedings and industry publications, with work on snowmobile dynamics and automotive black box data recorders reflecting a practitioner who engages seriously with the science behind the discipline.

Recent training includes electric vehicle safety and mechanical inspection, advanced photogrammetry applications, crash data retrieval updates, and forensic pathology — reflecting the reality that modern reconstruction increasingly intersects with emerging vehicle technologies and adjacent forensic disciplines. Ken is an active member of seven professional organizations including the Society of Automotive Engineers, the Canadian Association of Technical Accident Investigators and Reconstructionists, and the Institute of Transportation Engineers, and currently serves as Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Association of Physicists Foundation.

Education & experience

  • B.Sc., Physics — University of Western Ontario
  • Post-graduate coursework, Transportation Engineering

Licensure & standing

Licensed Professional Physicist, Canadian Association of Physicists (since 2000)

Testimony

Qualified · Superior & Provincial Courts of Ontario

Hans Leuschner

Principal · Computer Forensics

Specialty Device forensics, network and log analysis, mobile examination

Hans leads the firm's digital and computer forensics practice. His work covers the full landscape of digital evidence — from forensically sound imaging of storage media and recovery of deleted data, to mobile device examination, network log analysis, and live-system memory capture. He has supported criminal investigations, civil litigation, internal corporate investigations, and electronic discovery engagements where the integrity of the digital record is the central question.

Hans approaches every engagement with the same methodological discipline that distinguishes credible digital forensics from ad-hoc IT investigation: hash-verified acquisition, documented chain of custody, transparent methodology, and findings that are explicit about what the evidence establishes versus what it merely suggests. He is particularly experienced in the analytical work that follows extraction — interpreting whether activity reflects deliberate user action, automated system behaviour, or external intrusion, distinctions that often determine the outcome of fraud, insider-threat, and cybercrime matters.

Education & experience

  • (Credentials to be updated via Admin → Team)

Testimony

Available on request

Michael Fletcher

Audio Forensics · Report Writing & Editing

Specialty Audio authentication, restoration, speaker comparison, forensic report writing

Michael Fletcher brings over 25 years of professional audio engineering experience to his forensic work, with a career that spans live recording, studio production, audio mastering, and audio restoration. He began in 1997 with Ravensound, a mobile recording operation specializing in live album capture, before moving into studio work as an in-house engineer at The Rogue Studios. Over the course of his career he has worked with some of Canada's most recognized musical talent — including Jeff Healey, Platinum Blonde, Ashley MacIsaac, Hawksley Workman, Nash the Slash, and Die Mannequin, among many others. He is fluent across all major DAW platforms and maintains working proficiency with the full range of professional recording, mastering, and restoration software in current use.

That depth of hands-on experience is what distinguishes Michael as a forensic audio examiner. Understanding how sound is captured, processed, stored, and manipulated at the engineering level — not just the analytical one — provides a foundation for forensic work that purely academic training cannot replicate. He brings to every examination an intuitive familiarity with the artifacts, anomalies, and signatures that recordings produce under different conditions, and an ability to recognize when something in a recording does not reflect how it was represented to have been made.

Michael is also an accomplished author whose debut novel was published worldwide by HarperCollins in 2015 and translated into eight languages. He has since published sixteen novels and received multiple award nominations, including a recent shortlisting for the World Fantasy Award. That background in professional writing informs his role at Forensics International, where he serves as report writer and editor with a specific focus on translating complex technical and forensic findings into language that is precise, accessible, and effective in legal contexts — a skill that is rarer, and more valuable, than it might appear.

Education & experience

  • 25+ years professional audio engineering
  • Published author, HarperCollins (16 novels in print)

Testimony

Available on request

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