Forensic Assessment Index — Courts, Archives & Public Authorities

Roadmap added — 10-10-2026: Use the Institutional Involvement Roadmap for the chronological cross-institution path and named actors; the underlying chronology is evidence-status-qualified and does not treat an institution’s appearance as proof of fault. Related 1988 letter lead: GHF-E152.

Forensic Assessment Index — Courts, Archives & Public Authorities

How to read the institutional assessments

Each actor is assessed separately. A page records: precise institutional/entity identity; actual role; documentary evidence; control/safeguard question; current finding; human action; and acceptance test. Cross-links do not merge liability.

Litigation-critical actors

• HM Land Registry — registration, 1984 activity, 1987 amalgamation, alteration and indemnity.
• Linklaters — HMLR/litigation documentary trail and preservation.
• Warwick Modern Records Centre — BP corporate archive evidence.
• Court of Appeal — what the 1987 decision actually decided versus what was assumed.
• High Court — 1955 possession order and its exact scope.
• Cardiff County Court — 1962 farmhouse/garden proceedings.

Priority public-authority evidence

• Glamorgan Archives — D696 WGR rental books/plan book, plus key 1938/1939 material.
• RCAHMW — 1974 survey and 1988 heritage-record availability.
• Vale of Glamorgan Council — current planning/heritage records and live scrutiny route.
• Welsh Government — current central heritage/records handling.
• South Wales Police — 1988 operational-record recovery.
• National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) — national search methodology, ACPO catalogue searches and retrieval responses (modern records-access involvement; no historical operational role established).

Control rule

No institutional page may conclude “fraud”, “unlawful”, “concealment” or personal liability without the project’s actor-specific evidential threshold. A negative search is recorded as a negative search, not as proof of destruction or non-existence.

Current execution gateway

The institutional assessment layer now feeds the Litigation Activation page. Each institutional page must produce either a human action, a substantive decision, or a formally justified parked status. The objective is movement into evidence recovery, pre-action disclosure, live administrative remedy and litigation—not indefinite research accumulation.

Institutional appearance timelines

Institution-specific reviews now carry linked source chronologies. Each event title opens the evidence/record page rather than restating its contents. Entries are discovery maps, not findings of responsibility. See NPCC, South Wales Police, Cadw and GGAT.

High-level theory cross-reference: Cross-reference: the Cedwyn Estate Working Theory supplies the broader family hypothesis. This index should help locate records that may corroborate or falsify specific links, not convert institutional involvement into proof of wrongdoing.

Response Tactics & Response Friction Score

A source-based scoring register now distinguishes non-answers, cost or scope barriers, withholding explanations, record gaps and transparent replies. Each score applies to an individual message, not an entire institution; source status, confidence and mitigating details are recorded separately. Open the Response Friction Score register.