What court-ready actually means.

Inquiry that cannot be explained under oath is a rumour with an invoice. Court-ready means the work is licensed, documented, and honest about what is unknown. Timestamps, chain of custody, and a report that separates what is established from what is inferred. That is the standard counsel can plead from.

Canadian and cross-border matters are ordinary. Money, messages, and people move. The work does not. It has to be done by professionals entitled to do it in the relevant place, recorded so that a later affidavit is not an improvisation. A website form is not a commission.

A court-ready file says where the events occurred, where the records likely sit, and whether anyone has already spoken to police or to another lawyer. Forecourt assigns from that. Surveillance, a locate, a pattern of transactions, litigation support — each is useful only if it can later be explained.

Where a recovery or a freeze later requires banks or issuers of digital dollars, that contact is made privately, on the rails the file actually uses. The evidence still has to stand up. Discretion is the method: nothing produced in inquiry should embarrass counsel, and nothing pleaded by counsel should outrun the evidence.

If the facts will not wait for office hours, mark the matter urgent. A principal reads those first.