A Forensic document, handwriting and signature expert, is someone that applies scientific principals and processes combined with experience (through an intensive in-house training under tutelage of a qualified expert) in order to reach a finding. The international standards set for a forensic document, handwriting and signature expert is a minimum training of at least 2 years, full time under tutelage of a qualified expert.
Graphology (the art of identifying a person’s handwriting characteristics to determine his/her personality) is NOT a science and thus not accepted in courts.

Training as a Graphologist DOES NOT QUALIFY you to become a forensic document, handwriting and signature expert. Correspondence courses and the so-called “6-week training course” do NOT qualify you as a forensic document, handwriting and signature examiner.
Yvette is a qualified Forensic document, handwriting and signature expert based in Cape Town South Africa.

Yvette has wide courtroom experience and an extensive examination career in the field of forensic documents, handwriting, and signatures. The knowledge and the experience that she has gained in her career (since 1996) as a senior forensic document, handwriting and signature expert while on staff at the Questioned Document Unit of the Forensic Science Laboratory of the South African.