The committee appointed by the Lord, Chángellor to consider the technical and administrative problems involved in the establishment of a system for taking an official shorthand note in the Supreme Court, and to report in what manner they could best be solved, expressed the opinion that it would be impossible to ask for the creation of a department of salaried writers unless there were no other scheme possible They thought it would be wise to utilize the Institute of Shorthand Writers, who had suggested that an association should be formed which should accept responsibility for providing writers for all witness actions, and that it should be understood in the absence of special instructions that one shorthand writer would be in Court ready to take a note of the evidence, summing-up, and judgment, and that if either side notified the association that day to day transcripts would be required provision would be made accordingly.
The committee expressed the opinion. that such a scheme would work satisfactorily, The institute had agreed that the charge a day or part of a day should be 25/- for the taking of the note. The fee would not be charged for each case, but for each day, so that if two cases were disposed of in a day the total fee would be 25/-
With regard to transcripts the same charges would be made as at present—namely, 10d. a folio for the first copy and 2d. a folio for all other copies. Where transcripts are wanted during the hearing of the case the parties would be entitled to make their own arrangements with the official shorthand writer. The Judge would still have to take a note sufficient for his own purposes; and in some cases the note might be sufficient for the purpose of an appeal The cost of the transcript for the Court of Appeal, the committee thought, should be costs in the cause
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