You do know they are illegal to own right? They are only for official media use! Im wondering if people actually listen, and know what they are talking about on here!
If the x2 recorders i attended with, with x2 cassettes werent within the rules, they'd of not allowed me to record the assessment!
What is illegal? If you are saying that the Neal equipment is illegal in the hands of the general public then you are completely mistaken.
For a dual recording they are the best on the market.
What you used is fine, the only problem you have is that you now hold the only copy! You could tamper with it and then tell the DWP/Tribunal that you didn't. That is why you need two copies one proves the other. If one of the copies is lost then you have no verifiable evidence that the copy you have is the genuine article in all of what was recorded. Transcribing or downloading to a CD or stick is also pointless. How can you prove that the copy, the transcription contains EVERYTHING that was said. On to a loser I am afraid.
You are best fighting the decision based entirely on the evidence of what the impact is and forget what the assessor has said.
i had the same thing happen in 2012, won the appeal over a few simple lies,
time of interview and time it took, i was out of the car park being driven home, as car park gave time of entry and exit, so number one
second lie, i refused to do any exams, and then the examiner made up some numbers on how many degree's i could move parts of my body, and then wrote on the form that i refused, so just must have made them up, as no one can say for sure you have 17 degree's of flexion by looks alone, which got upheld at tribunal same as time and date, so most of the information was put down after the event, so no live so could have been from memory or just from there head or recollection.
and finally, the recording didn't match the written notes, so always always get a recorded assessment, to catch out one sided interviews and one sided written verbal communicated notes, done and filled in after the event when the memory of what happened is less, so not professional at all and not the first or last time it will be mentioned i'm sure, but as there not part of the Government, as it's a 3rd party who has took on the assessments, the DWP cares less either, as while ATOW was removed, seems another set of idiots and lairs took there place
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Thank you for your query @script2019. As lots of advice has been given and you've decided on a course of action, I'm going to close this discussion. If you have any updates, or any other questions, please feel free to start a new thread.
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