Obtaining Transcripts

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Dear Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service,

Full Disclosure: Obtaining Transcripts

1. How long does a recording of a case proceedings stay on the database for?

2. What application does one have to fill in to obtain a transcript at your lower division court (Family etc)?

3. If the Judge refuses your application to obtain a transcript, is this allowed and under what law? What is ones course of action?

4. If the Judge gives authorisation for one to obtain a transcript and the individual is is in receipt of legal aid/low income what is the process? Does the applicant have to make payment?

5. Can organisations (corporations/businesses)/local authorities/Judges/Solicitors/Barristers obtain transcripts at public expense?

Kindly include documents to fill in, law and grounds.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours faithfully,

A. Marfo

Disclosure Team, HM Courts and Tribunals Service

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taryn taylor (Account suspended) left an annotation ()

Dear A Marfo

There is no charge. Just make a request, via email or letter to the Tribunal svce & ask for the judges " statement of reasons" of the case.
Ask for a typed copy because otherwise they send one that is hand written by the judge, which you will not be able to read .
If sending a letter ,do it by recorded delivery & keep your slip from the post office to track it via Royal Mail.When you track it & it has been signed for on delivery . You can then print that information off the screen. . KEEP ALL YOUR RECORDS!. Don't be surprised if what you receive bears no resemblance to how you recall the case/day.
THAT IS WHY THEY DO NOT RECORD PEOPLES CASES ON TO DISC !!
Because , unfortunately , you will find that in the UK-there is No Justice or Democracy for the general public. Keep your chin up & persevere . As they will take great delight in being as awkward as possible!
Taryn Taylor

J Roberts left an annotation ()

This UT appeal concerns a case which included a request for transcripts:

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[2020] UKUT 263 (AAC)

'29. On 21 October 2019, Judge Wright gave further case management directions. He decided (generously) that the parties should be provided with an audio recording of the September 2018 hearing but not with a transcript.'

But later in the Decision there is this:

'46. ...First, he seeks an electronic recording in relation to the earlier appeal heard by Judge Wright in September 2018. Although Judge Wright directed that this be done, it later transpired (as I understand it) that HMCTS do not have the technical ability to separate a recording of the applicant’s hearing from others that were in Judge Wright’s list on the same day.'

An alarming lack of technical ability.

J Roberts left an annotation ()

A lot of useful information on audio recordings of proceedings is available in decision [2020] UKUT 260 (AAC):

'56. The Appellant ' appears to be under the misapprehension that it is his entitlement to have free of charge both a transcript of, and a copy of the digital recording of, any First-tier Tribunal oral hearing in which he participates.Nothing could be further from the truth.'

57. At this juncture,several general observations are in order. First, there is no automatic right under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) to a copy of a transcript of a tribunal hearing. Nor does the Human Rights Act 1998 provide any such right. Moreover, and perhaps somewhat remarkably, there is no statutory requirement on the First-tier Tribunal even to maintain a record of proceedings, whether digital, audio or handwritten. The Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 is entirely silent on the matter, as are the Tribunal Procedure (First-tier Tribunal) (General Regulatory Chamber) Rules 2009. There is no Practice Direction or Practice Statement that governs the position in the GRC (contra the position in the Social Entitlement Chamberof the FTT). The most that canperhapsbe said is that the Judge is undera duty to take a note of the evidence (see Houston v Lightwater Farms Ltd[1990] ICR 502 at 507, where it was held that a chairman of what was then an industrial (now an employment) tribunal “as a judge, hasin our judgment a judicial duty to make some note of the proceedings before him, including the evidence, for the assistance of an appellate court in the event of an appeal”).'

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