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Incident log

It has been going on for months and I no longer remember what happened when.

Verified 14 August 2026

Not a letter; it goes nowhere. One sheet for you, filled in on the day: what, when, where, who, and who else was there. Eight months on, „they harassed me constantly“ is not evidence. Fourteen dates with names is.

Goes to: Nobody. The only document here that is not filed anywhere.
Who else reads it: Nobody — unless you produce it yourself. But write expecting the whole log to go, not the lines you would choose: the other side can ask the court to order you to produce it (чл. 190, ал. 1 ГПК). There is a refusal for documents touching your private life (чл. 191 ГПК), but the court decides — ask a lawyer, do not rely on it. And a notebook in a shared drawer already has a second reader.
Can this be taken back: Entirely, while it is only with you — the only document here you can destroy. The copies do not go with it, though: the message you sent and the photo in the cloud stay.
Deadline: None — which is why it goes first. Everything else here has a clock already running. This you can do tonight.
Legal basis: чл. 180 ГПК — a sheet signed by you proves the words are yours. чл. 181, ал. 1 ГПК — when it has a certain date as against third parties. Its force is чл. 9 ЗЗДискр: the other side must prove it did not discriminate — but only once you present facts.

Before you write the first line

Kept on the day, the log carries weight — which is exactly why the other side can ask to see it, all of it, not the lines you would choose. Write only what you saw and heard and would repeat in court: no verdicts, no guesses about what the other person was thinking.
If you want to leave something out — that is a question for a lawyer, not to hide. „Just do not write it down“ detonates under cross-examination: the other side knows, and your log says otherwise. At „Действие“ they answer for free.
The log can out you: eight months of notes are also the fullest written account of your orientation there is. Decide where it will live before you write. And do not out others — nobody else’s orientation or HIV status gets written down.
Do not open or print this on a work or school device, or over the work Wi-Fi: the network sees the address, and the office printer keeps a history with the document’s name. Copy shop, printer at home, or by hand.

What the log does later

It orders your testimony: you are asked for a date, and what you remember is a feeling. The list gives the order back — when, where, who, what was said.
It dates what memory blurs: „somewhere around Easter“ becomes „17 April, about 14:20, in the store room, in front of two people“.
It shifts the burden of proof. Under чл. 9 ЗЗДискр, once you present facts from which discrimination may be presumed, the other side must prove equal treatment was not breached. A vague recollection does not do that; a dated list of names and places does.
But the date at the top binds nobody else: under чл. 181, ал. 1 ГПК a private document has a certain date as against third parties only from certification, from reproduction in an official document, or from some other fact proving it was drawn up earlier. Otherwise they can always say you wrote it the night before the hearing. So an entry weighs more if it is anchored the same day in something whose date does not come from you — but every anchor makes a copy you cannot take back. The options are below.

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The document

INCIDENT LOG

A blank form. Print it empty and copy it, or copy it out by hand. One incident = one entry. Written on the day it happened or the next morning, in ink. Dates are not changed and old entries are not copied out fresh.

BEFORE THE FIRST LINE 1. Only what was seen and heard — only what could be repeated in court. This log can be demanded by the other side too. 2. Another person’s orientation and HIV status are not recorded. 3. What is hard to write down is a question for a lawyer, not something to leave out. Every sheet is signed.

ENTRY No ______ Date: [ dd.mm.yyyy ] Time: [ hh:mm ] Where: [ the place ] __________________________________________________________

WHAT HAPPENED — word for word. Quotation marks around the exact words only. [ what was said and done ] __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________

WHO DID IT: [ name and position ] __________________________________________________________ WHO ELSE WAS THERE: [ the names of anyone present ] __________________________________________________________

WHAT IT MEANT for work or for health — one line: [ what changed ] __________________________________________________________

ANCHORED THE SAME DAY IN: nothing — just this sheet WHAT I KEPT — and where it is: [ photos, emails, messages — and where they are ] __________________________________________________________ Signature: ____________________

The next entry — on a new sheet or on a new line.

No printer? Print the blank form at a copy shop and fill it in by hand — a handwritten document is just as valid. It is also the safest: no file, no print queue, no Downloads folder.

Before you press Print: untick "Headers and footers" in the print settings. Otherwise the page title and the site address appear on the sheet — and whoever receives the document sees them.

How to keep it

A paper notebook, in ink, one entry per incident — dullest and safest. No file, no account, nothing wiped remotely. No certain date either, and still worth it. Keep it somewhere you control: not the shared drawer, not the bag somebody else tidies, not your desk at work — that belongs to the employer.
A message to somebody you trust — the cheapest anchor. The cost: the entry sits in their account and in a friendship that can end; if they become a witness, it enters the case.
An email to yourself — but never to a work address (that mailbox is the employer’s), and not if a partner or relative has access to the account.
A photo of the sheet — date and time sit inside the file. But messaging apps strip them when it is sent, and the photo lands in your gallery and normally the cloud.
Filing with an institution against a receipt — strongest and most exposed: the date is no longer just your word, but a file opens and the other side is usually served a copy.
The browser saves nothing — print it or copy it out by hand before you close. If you keep a file: a name that says nothing, outside the folder that uploads automatically. A phone keyboard learns words and later suggests them elsewhere.

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