'Distasteful' covert recordings may be admissible evidence

[fishtank]

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'Distasteful' covert recordings may be admissible evidence

Some employees are secretly recording meetings with managers with the intention of using them as evidence at employment tribunals. And with the prevalence of sophisticated portable recording devices - including on many mobile phones - it's a trend that looks likely to continue.

Employers may well wonder if such a practice is fair or reasonable. Certainly, tribunals have been describing covert recording as 'very distasteful' and 'discreditable'. But case law suggests that this in itself may not be enough to make them inadmissible as evidence.

Following decisions in one case, experts say that recordings of disciplinary hearings and subsequent meetings may be admissible provided the employer has been given the evidence before the tribunal hearing, including both the recording and its transcription so that its veracity can be checked. If there's a lot of material to go through, employers should be told which parts are relevant to the proceedings.

In the same case, secret recordings of private conversations were treated differently. They were not deemed to be admissible unless the recordings revealed evidence of discrimination.

Employers may want to prohibit recording in their procedures and policies, but experts suggest that this won't deter some. Better advice, they maintain, is for managers to assume they are being recorded and to remember that what they are saying may be admitted as evidence in a tribunal.

[hans solo]

was thinking of purchasing some spy equip online for doms office let all the lads listen to it

[glenfiddich]

here we are i'll start the ball rollinghttp://ledshoppe.com/Product/hou/HE3009.htm

[post_bitch]

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[TrueBlueTerrier]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFbcpvhOxus

[post_bitch]

hows weather in Huddersfield tbt

[TrueBlueTerrier]

[dazzlin72]

What's good for the goose, is good for the gander then! If it's acceptable for employers to do this without having to notify the employee they are recording, so neither should the employee have to give warning, & vice verse.

[post_bitch]

don't you yearn to see the sea now and again living there?

[TrueBlueTerrier]

don't you yearn to see the sea now and again living there?

Nope - spent a lot of my life on or near the sea anyway, its green/brown/blue goes up and down and tastes salty (if you are lucky) not much to miss

[clashcityrocker]

don't you yearn to see the sea now and again living there?

Nope - spent a lot of my life on or near the sea anyway, its green/brown/blue goes up and down and tastes salty (if you are lucky) not much to miss

But every seventh wave is the biggest.
I love watching the sea. In it there are intimations of immortality.

[fishtank]

I love watching the sea.In it there are intimations of immortality.

In it there are more often intimations of immorality.
Floating around just waiting for the unsuspecting swimmer.
Usually extra large just to add inadequacy to the feeling of disgust.

[post_bitch]

[clashcityrocker]

Is that you bitch?

[post_bitch]

I urged them to leave their work. They shook their heads and continued at their work. It might have been an inrush of water later that cut off their escape, or it may have been the explosion. I saw them no more.
Albert Theissinger
Steward aboard R.M.S. Titanic and survivor

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