Royal Reporting Services Ltd., having been founded in 1985, is nearing its 27th Anniversary. Our staff complement exceeds 40 personnel, consisting of Certified Court Reporters, CART and Realtime Writers, Professional Transcribers, Court Registrars, Tape or Digital Audio Monitoring Clerks, Office Personnel, and Proofreaders. We also employ Bilingual Transcribers who transcribe audio recordings in the French language.
Royal's Certified Court Reporters have all graduated from a recognized college attaining writing speeds of over 200 words per minute. Reporters use a stenotype machine, which is hooked up to the reporter's laptop. The laptop is loaded with CAT (computer-aided transcription) software. Each "spoken word" is taken down by the reporter using the steno machine, translating the shorthand into English. The proceedings are also recorded by the Court Reporter to ensure accuracy of transcript, which is listened to simultaneously while transcribing.
Royal's Professional Transcribers have legal backgrounds having worked in law firms or taken the Legal Assistant's Course; or, in the alternative, have numerous years of experience in transcribing all levels of court proceedings, meetings, hearings consisting of technical and nontechnical matters. Transcription of all levels of audio recordings and taped proceedings are an integral part of Royal's background in our specialized field of court reporting and transcribing.
Transcripts are proofread by experienced proofreaders having been previous Court Reporters or experienced Transcribers with many years of transcribing experience.
Royal Reporting and staff have developed a strong reputation in the court reporting and transcribing industry focusing on "the verbatim word" producing an accurate verbatim transcript from very short proceedings, 15 minutes or shorter, to very lengthy proceedings lasting over a year. Royal provided services for the longest trial in Saskatchewan history and also for the Milgaard Inquiry.
Civil Trials at the Court of Queen's Bench, Tax Court and Federal Court of Canada, Inquiries, Tribunals, Discoveries, Depositions, Videotaped Police and RCMP Interviews, Security Commission Hearings, Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations, Indian Claims Commission, Transportation Appeal, Medical Associations, Board of Revision, Deaf and Hard of Hearing Association, Saskatchewan Hard of Hearing Association, are only a few of the many clients Royal's Court Reporters provide verbatim services to.
Digital recorded proceedings include Saskatchewan Justice; Trials, Preliminaries, Small Claims, Family Court; Alternate Dispute Resolution/Independent Assessment Process Hearings; Correctional Service of Canada, Parole Board; Automobile Injury Appeal Commission, which are only a few of the contracts we hold with organizations.
Royal Reporting and staff hold Federal Government clearance.