The troubling "recording difficulties" at the show trial
I read somewhere yesterday that the Maclean's defense team was having trouble getting official recordings of the B.C. "Human Rights" Tribunal testimony because of some equipment difficulty.
Has the BCHRT decided to do away with official transcripts from court reporters (with back-up tapes) and only offer digital audio the way the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has?
Duh! Equipment fails. That is why in a real court there is always a court reporter, a living, breathing human being recording every word on one of those little shorthand machines. The recordings are there to assist him or her in putting the final record together, not the other way around.
If there is no official transcript, all the more difficult to appeal a case, to prove to a real court the kind of travesty of justice that goes on in these bodies. I hope the Maclean's team is making their own recordings, maybe even bringing in their own court stenographer. I sure hope yesterday's moments of truth will remain for posterity in an official record.
Has the BCHRT decided to do away with official transcripts from court reporters (with back-up tapes) and only offer digital audio the way the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has?
Duh! Equipment fails. That is why in a real court there is always a court reporter, a living, breathing human being recording every word on one of those little shorthand machines. The recordings are there to assist him or her in putting the final record together, not the other way around.
If there is no official transcript, all the more difficult to appeal a case, to prove to a real court the kind of travesty of justice that goes on in these bodies. I hope the Maclean's team is making their own recordings, maybe even bringing in their own court stenographer. I sure hope yesterday's moments of truth will remain for posterity in an official record.
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