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Dear Pat,
Perhaps you could consider using a digital voice recorder - the recording
could then be played back, and names redacted, on a PC.
Best wishes
Andrew
--On 20 May 2005 09:43 +0100 Pat Gannon-Leary
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> I see this topic was raised in January 2004 but this is a different slant
> on it.
>
> Rather than note-take during disciplinary hearings, we were considering
> audio taping them, with the student's consent.
>
> However, one issue in particular concerns us. We would give the student a
> transcript of the tape but what if s/he requested a copy of the tape?
>
> Sometimes, during such hearings, students mention other students by name,
> as in "Well so-and-so did that too...."
>
> If they are supplied with notes based on the hearing - or a transcription
> of an audio tape - the names of others can be redacted.
>
> We could not easily erase/obliterate names of other students mentioned
> from an audio tape.
>
> Surely this would place us in a difficult position if the student played
> the tape to others or submitted the tape to the Office of the Independent
> Adjudicator?
Andrew Charlesworth
Senior Research Fellow in IT and Law
Director, Centre for IT and Law
School of Law/Department of Computer Science
University of Bristol
Wills Memorial Building
Queens Road, Bristol BS8 1RJ
Tel: 0117 954 5633 (CompSci)
Fax: 0117 954 5208 (CompSci)
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