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John_Pierpoint

Jasper94 wrote: »

Enter me for the draw please - am presently pursuing a possible professional negligence claim against solicitors for mismanagement of divorce settlement and these recording could well be invaluable.

You may find that the "electronic" recording is not admissible. In a civil case it is probably up to the judge, but quite rightly in criminal cases they don't like electronics, because its is so easily fiddled. [I remember the burly journalist Roger Cook saying years ago, when his career moved onto television from Radio, that given a recorded conversation of say 15 minutes he could probably edit it and chop it about to make his adversary say anything - a simple BBC example recently was the outsourced program showing the Queen storming off in a huff. I also appeared in a court case where at least two of the photographs had been doctored - I was asked to look at photos and explain to the court what I saw; so I said that the photographs and my memory did not agree; in two cases. It was brilliant because later in the case a witness for the other side (not knowing of my evidence) agreed with me and in the other case the "brief" asked the other side to count the leaves on a branch and explain how likely it was that two branches on different trees would have exactly the same number of leaves. (It is the lies that people tell that bring them down).

That said it is useful to have a recording because you then know exactly what someone said and don't need to take notes. Insurance loss adjusters used to use recording brief cases.

I find a 25 year old portable cassette recorder with the 'phone on hands free, works pretty well. [Unfortunately my experience is that Local Government officers are the worst people for telling porkies just to get an inconvenient call off the line, so they can go home on time (or get back to the cross word?):D].

John

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