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Forensic Assessments

Darwin Gray

Forensic assessment · v1.1.0 · updated 1 November 2026

Response status
No contact on file → Awaiting first reply
Last contact
31 October 2026
Next date on file
None on file
Earlier version
v1.0.0, published 21 October 2026 on the Legal Wiki

Since last assessment

14 October 2026 to 1 November 2026

Our reading: Since 14 October 2026, 1 emails are on file: 1 sent, 0 received (0 with content, 0 automatic acknowledgements). The latest reply moves the response status from “No contact on file” to “Awaiting first reply”. Most material: 31 October 2026, sent, follow-up: Follow-up to the 28 Sep 2026 preservation notice. Nothing here changes the earlier current finding unless stated above; this is a log of contact, not a finding about any person.

  1. Sentfollow-up

    Follow-up to the 28 Sep 2026 preservation notice.

The assessment as last published

Carried over unchanged from v1.0.0 (21 October 2026). Links point inside this site.

Page ID: 3119 · Title: Darwin Gray — Forensic Assessment · Evidence status: Not yet labelled — see the Editing Protocol · Version: 1.0.0 · Editing Protocol

Assessed 14 October 2026. Scope: modern preservation correspondence only. No historic role for this firm is established on the wiki. Inclusion is not a finding of fault.

Documented appearances

DateAppearanceSource
28 September 2026Named among the recipients of the second preservation notice.FOI & Public-Authority Reply Register, preservation notices section

Current finding

As at 14 October 2026, no reply from the firm is recorded in the reply register and nothing establishes wrongdoing. A preservation notice is a custody control. It does not allege destruction or concealment.

Next step

Establish from the family’s file why the firm is on the notice list (for example a 1984–87 litigation or conveyancing role), record any reply, and log a dated chase if none arrives. Acceptance: role stated from a source, and reply or chase logged.

Related

Blake Morgan review · FC-005 — 1984–87 litigation file

Created 14 October 2026. Prepared with AI assistance from the wiki’s existing records, on the family’s instruction. Corrections are welcome and will be dated here.

Change history is maintained on the Master Change Log; no separate page-local version footer is maintained.

Case file

This file is built for a future reparations claim. Facts are as the records show them; interpretation is labelled “our reading”. Items marked “not checked” have not been compared with the original record.

(a) Conduct timeline

1 dated interactions, oldest first; 0 automatic acknowledgements are left out. Quotations are verbatim from the institution’s email; where the reply’s substance was an attachment, the email subject is quoted instead.

Show the timeline
DateDirectionReferenceTypeVerbatim
31 October 2026sent—follow-upSubject: Great House Farm / Tŷ Mawr, Llandough – follow-up to my preservation notice of 28 September 2026

(b) Inconsistencies and gaps

None found in the correspondence on file.

(c) Quarantined-name links

Records on the quarantine register (Kissed Frogs) that sit in, or came from, this institution’s holdings. None is treated as settled.

No quarantined-name record on the register is linked to this institution’s holdings.

(d) Duty and liability — our reading

Liability indicators (our reading): none

Duty
No general statutory duty to disclose; UK GDPR Art. 15 for personal data it holds; duties in contract, conveyancing practice or professional rules where it was a party, agent or adviser; once on notice of a possible claim, an expectation to preserve relevant documents.
Indicators the duty was not met
none found in the correspondence on file.
Evidence still needed to confirm
the institution’s retention schedule and disposal record for the series in question; the catalogue or file list it searched; any internal review or complaint outcome.
Likely extent of exposure if confirmed
Depends on its role in a transaction: where it was a party or adviser to a dealing in the land, exposure follows that role; otherwise none beyond data-protection duties.

(e) Evidence still needed

Versions

1.1.02026-11-01Moved to the Forensic Assessments webapp; dated “Since last assessment” section added; response status re-read.
1.0.02026-10-21As published on the Legal Wiki.

Small print: dotted links explain a word (see the glossary); amber-shaded links list every name the records use for the same thing.