(4) reporting progress at regular intervals to
the Registrar or Judiciary Administrator when
appointed.
Meanwhile the Registrar, armed with this Report, will wish to press for the necessary finance and any other aids from the Government towards
the provision of an adequate service.
21.
of action.
The management team will as soon as possible propose a plan
The strategic options for future development are these :-
(1) manuscript shorthand and typewriter transcription;
(2) machine shorthand and typewriter transcription;
(3) machine shorthand and C.A.T.;
(4)
sound recording and typewriter transcription.
They are not necessarily exclusive.
22.
The surest way of providing an early major extension of the
service is sound recording. The equipment has greatly improved in
recent years.
Many courts in the United Kingdom are receiving a
satisfactory service as they are in Australia. The current experiment
here looks hopeful although transcription may be a problem.
23.
Given that recruitment and training of shorthand writers is
difficult and given also that only machine shorthand writers can work
with C.A.T. it may be sensible to concentrate future recruiting and
training effort on machine shorthand and on audio-typists for
transcription from sound.
24.
The C.A.T. system is widely used in the United States and is
very highly spoken of in the courts of Northern Ireland. Once its
operators are fully trained it
exceptionally effective in the
production of transcripts. The system now operating in the Hong Kong
Judiciary can reproduce one hour of court proceedings in a period of
between two and four hours of transcribing whereas one hour in court is
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