Any Court Reporters on here?

JimmyCorkhill

Interested to know, as would like to pick your brain :)

Brian Lighthouse

Would you now?

I'm not one, used to do a bit of it before and I'll give you the basics based on my experience

District Court - Anything said when the judge is present can be reported on.

Circuit Court- Anything said when both the judge and jury are present can be reported.

And the question that everyone asks!!!!!

Only the charge presented before the judge is discussed. Previous convictions are only discovered after the case is dealt with.

Have fun.

JimmyCorkhill

Updated.

Brian Lighthouse

I didn't think that was an "arsey" reply.

Why didn't you ask a straight question?

So, what is it you want to know?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

I'd imagine there are a quiet a few lurking in the shadows. Doubt they ever post, though.

JimmyCorkhill

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118668072#Comment_118668072

I thought my question was pretty straight forward tbf

Most of your reply was helpful to be fair.

The "Would you now?" & "Have fun" comments were unhelpful imo.

Brian Lighthouse

Would you now - was in reply to what I thought was a humourous remark from you most especially when you put :) this after "would like to pick your brain"

Have fun - means that, have fun, I don't know or care to know what you are doing after reading the reply, I could have said "goodbye" "Good Luck" or even a "hope that that helps".

I was simply signing off.

Anyway, I'm glad I was of some help.

Good luck.

Brian Lighthouse

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118668099#Comment_118668099

Apart from RTÉ I don't know of any dedicated court reporting staff. Virgin may have someone who reports on the courts but that would not be their sole role. Same with Bauer Media as they are known now - on reflection they may have one perhaps two that is syndicated out to local radio (Remember INN) and press from the bigger courts in Dublin.

For local press the local reporter will cover courts along with cats up trees and what have you. Sometimes there may be a person whose main role is the courts but again not the sole role.

There are stenograhpy firms that you can pay to cover a court case, but I don't know how that works these days as the courts are becoming more digital.

Overall, I would think the number of dedicated court reporters in the entire country could be counted on one hand.

Would I be incorrect? Let me know if I am.

Thanks and all the best.

JimmyCorkhill

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118669054#Comment_118669054

Not many people sign off on their messages, just seemed sarcastic, the have fun comment. Anyway all is good, no hard feelings.

Thanks for your help .

L1011

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118669102#Comment_118669102

Baeur have a dedicated courts reporter, Frank Greaney. There is also a stringer service that I can't remember the name of that has one or two staff and sells stories to whoever will buy them.

GM228

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118669961#Comment_118669961

I think he only reports for Newstalk and Today FM rather than the group itself.

Other than that I think the only others with a dedicated court reported is ILN, RTE and CCC Nuacht.

NUTLEY BOY

If you really want court reporting that makes you suck air backwards through your teeth look at our American friends on CourtTV.

They usually have the case wrapped up before the jury does.

If you mentioned to them the concept of sub judice they would probably faint.

NUTLEY BOY

There is one lingering problem that court reporters need to watch very carefully and that is the pooling of reports.

You might have a situation where a few cases are running at the same time at the same venue. If a reporter tries to cover all courts they may well miss something of each case. Some of them operate (ed ?) a pooling system whereby each of them would cover one case only. They would then meet up and pool their respective reports thus allowing each of them to report simultaneously on a several cases.

A problem that has cropped up is that if one of them misses or misreports something they all do ! The worst is where one reporter misses the order not to report a particular matter and they all do ! Cue a separate appearance for the reporters at the end of the case.

L1011

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118670683#Comment_118670683

The entire group - and everyone else in local radio - takes Newstalk content. So while he may be employed by Newstalk rather than Bauer, its basically a Bauer position.

When UTV had a radio news op they also had a dedicated court reporter. But that's now ancient history.