21.   Video recordings are used more frequently than audio tape in the investigation of child abuse.

22.   A video recording can constitute real evidence where, for example, an incident involving a parent and child has been filmed.

23.   The person conducting the interview may seek to produce the video recording as evidence that statements were made by the child which support a diagnosis of sexual abuse.

24.   Judicial opinion has varied as to the evidential standing and value of video recordings of this nature.

25.   There must be careful recording of the interview and what the child says, whether or not there is a video recording.

26.   The Home Office is to produce a Code of Practice on the use of video recordings for this purpose.

27.   A video recording of an interview with a child is also a form of hearsay.

28.   Is the video recording at the same time?

29.   Digital video recording, well advanced in prototypes recently demonstrated by Thomson Consumer Electronics and JVC, may supplant VHS sooner than anyone expected.

30.   Hall said he will ask Congress to implement provisions to prevent the public release of cockpit video recordings.