BENEFITS OF COURT REPORTING

The benefits are enormous having court reporting equipment in the court room takes away the burden of Judges recording court proceedings in long hands/manually. It wastes a lot of time, energy and puts a lot of stress on the Judges.
– It allows them to stay longer during court proceedings and ask intelligent questions. The stress will also be reduced significantly. The reporters are well trained to undertake that task. Some reporters can actually write at a speed of about 240 words per minute. In every second they could write up to 6 words or more in one second.
– In cases such as an appeal, transcripts are vital and court reporting enable new Judges access transcripts of the original trial in which they were not present.
– During court proceedings, it is possible to glance on the screen to confirm what is heard and to cross check earlier testimonies. A witness’s statement can be highlighted using the Realtime Court Reporting technology highlight and note taking features which allows for fact finding/flagging and when being cross-examined, a Counsel can search through what was said previously by the witness and along with other depositions to see what he addressed on the topic for contradictions or new information.
– Every statement made during cross-examination can be researched in the law court as proceedings go on or by streaming of proceedings as they occur to co-counsel in another location using internet and the data gotten can be used to impeach or undermine the credibility of the witness.
– Our reporters are trained extensively over a period of 18 months to write by sound, so it is a kind of short hand machine. As you write, it instantly translates it to readable text. With that, they can capture any word. Again, they could equally use the machine to write any word in Advanced Learners Dictionary.
– Our reporters learn to write approximately 900,000 (Nine Hundred Thousand) English words in 18 Months. If it is sound based, within six months we successfully train somebody to write the entire words in Advanced Learners Dictionary within that period.
– The success of the use of Stenography in Court Reporting is hinged on accuracy and speed and these are the skills we train our staff and clients in.