Can I record the hearing myself?.
Respondents ask about recording because they expect to need proof of what happened. The rule already provides it.
What is required.
The 2020 regulations require institutions to create an audio or audiovisual recording, or a transcript, of any live hearing, and to make it available to the parties for inspection and review. That obligation is unconditional. Where no record was created, or where the institution declines to make it available, that is a procedural violation visible without any argument about the merits.
Why recording it yourself is a bad idea.
Most institutional policies prohibit party recording, and breaching that is itself a conduct violation - which hands the institution a second matter. Separately, several states require the consent of all parties to record a conversation, which means a covert recording can be a criminal offence. The upside is nil, because the institution is already required to produce the thing you wanted.
What to do with the recording.
Request it in writing promptly, and review it against your advisor’s contemporaneous notes and against the determination letter. Three things are on it verbatim: what witnesses actually said, which questions were excluded and on what stated basis, and what the decision-maker said about relevance. Where the determination characterises testimony differently from how it was given, that discrepancy is procedural-irregularity material - and it exists only if someone listened to the recording.
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