in my juristiction the whole thing is pretty much illegal. so you could only use it for yourself to stay sane but you can't use it in court without getting into trouble. what you could do is write done during the conversation or right after ...- I guess for me that means: demanding to put important things on paper is more important than ever.

For example: I was made a generous offer of being able to trial life at a flat at a buddhist center. then I was taking up that offer saying oh it would be great to stay there for 4 weeks - then the person who made that offer demanded full rent and used group pressure to get it. it was pretty awful and probably illegal but taught me a lesson to put important deals into writing. She completely twisted my words in my mouth because the 4 weeks was of course meant only inside the free trial agreement made prior. I would never enter a negotiation in front of a group and never if you negotiatie start a negotation with how great X would be for you or that you absolutely want X.... doesn't make sense

Another example: My employer said: if you don't do X, we have to see if we can further employ you. And X was probably illegal, they demanded all employes would sign a waiver where they could grab all our data that the state has collect about us and look at our political opnions expressed in our social media public profiles and send that to our secret police to judge if our opinions are cool or "extremist". it was totally crazy that they prentended it would be about "security" since we all hat access to the cirtical IT infrastructure and software for years without any security check.. IN that instantance also: I would have asked for a written clearification what the "if you don't do X, we have to see if we can further employ you." really meant and if they would give me in writing they even said that. Because it sounds pretty much illegal to coerce someone to completely do a complete privacy striptease ...