Employee Concerns: A Case Study
We met our Newcastle-based client as part of the free consultation service we offer to everyone. They explained that they felt they were being defrauded by one of their staff who had been off for 5 months with an injury they’d claimed they sustained at work.
The staff member (let’s call him ‘Keith’) was in the process of taking legal action against their employer and claimed that they could no longer walk around without sticks for support.
‘Keith’ was receiving full sick pay from our client who were in turn being fully cooperative with all litigation they were having levied against them – but rumours had started to circulate that there was nothing wrong with ‘Keith’ and he was actually working in another job, “cash in hand” in Gateshead. Read more about Employee Concerns: A Case Study …

It is important for us within our line of work – when investigating issues surrounding employee absence and staff sickness around Newcastle and the whole of the North East – to be very clear about where we stand as a company
The media and pop culture in general play up the archetype of our profession as being the type that skulks in the shadows, doing all sorts of illegalities in order to acquire evidence against someone or some company.
In our field of work we take formal victim and witness statements to a high evidential standard for a wealth of different reasons – sometimes they relate to internal employee investigations, sometimes they are to do with road traffic collisions to name but two.
We are proud to have grown into what is one of the most highly regarded litigation support services throughout the North East and we continue to be the preferred choice of some of the region’s most prestigious law firms for supporting their solicitors with cases.
A lot of companies in our field – heck, a lot of companies full stop – use the ‘case studies’ space on their professional blog to tell big, detailed stories about how they achieved a fantastic result for their client, confirmed all their worst suspicions and caught the ‘bad buy’ or whatever. God knows, there’s a fair enough amount of those very types of case studies in our own archives. Scroll through and take a look.
We are asked frequently – especially within the realms of the commercial investigations we complete against rogue employees – about recording people covertly. We are always keen to encourage employers and employees alike to err on the side of extreme caution around this.
There’s a lot of private investigators out there. There’s a LOT just in the region of Newcastle Upon Tyne alone. So why pick Surmount Investigations? Why choose us to help with a problem you are faced professionally or personally over the wealth of other options available to you?