Deaf Awareness Week
It is Deaf Awareness Week and member Sheryll Holley was interviewed on ITV News, Wales.
www.itv.com/wales - click on "full programme". You could watch the whole section, but if you just want to see Sheryll working and being interviewed, skip to just over 13 minutes in. Sec.
AGM
There is still time to book on to our workshops. If you cannot find your previous Newsletter giving Notice, contact sec@bivr.org for details.
Proxy vote
There is also still time to send in your proxy vote for President for 2011/12.
ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL AND PRESIDENT
2011-2012
In accordance with Article 27 of the Articles of Association elections shall be by simple majority of the votes cast at the meeting. By Article 45, each Fellow and full Member shall have one vote. For the avoidance of confusion, Associates and Students do not have a vote.
By Article 46, on a ballot votes may be given either personally or by proxy. Any Fellow or full Member may appoint a proxy to attend and vote on his behalf at any general meeting.
By Article 47 an instrument appointing a proxy shall be in writing, executed by or on behalf of the appointor and shall be in the following form.
The form below may be used for any Fellow or Member wishing to appoint a proxy to vote on his behalf in the elections:
I, ............................................................. being a Fellow/Member of the
Institute, hereby appoint .......................................................................
or failing him, .......................................................................................
as my proxy to vote in my name and on my behalf at the Annual
General Meeting of the Institute to be held on 14th May 2011 and at any adjournment thereof.
*Strike out whichever is not desired.
Unless otherwise instructed the proxy may vote as he thinks fit or abstain from voting.
Signed on ........................................ 2011.
The instrument appointing a proxy may be deposited at the registered office:
73 Alicia Gardens, Kenton, Harrow, Middx HA3 8JD
not less than 48 hours before the meeting (by 6 p.m. on Thursday, 12 May 2011, by post or via e mail to sec@bivr.org.uk from your own e mail address so that I may confirm who it is from.
Sec.
There were no nominations for Council, but you may still vote for President.
Here is each candidate's bio and photo
Mrs Helen Edwards -
Helen has been a member of BIVR since 1982 and a Council member since 2010, having been co-opted in 2009. At one time, along with the late Peter Chilton, Helen edited the Newsletter. Helen has reported in both court and Parliamentary, retraining on to CAT in 1998. Helen enjoys horse riding, but her newest passion is enjoying her grandchildren.
Mrs Sheryll Holley -
Sheryll has been a member of BIVR since 2004/5 and a Council member since 2009 having been co-opted in 2008.
"I am a qualified Speech-to-Text Reporter, living in a village called Pontyclun, about 13 miles northwest of Cardiff, South Wales, but when I started my working life it was as an office junior, progressing to secretary working in several legal practices in Cardiff. I stopped work in 1992 to have the first of my three children, with the other two following close after. Since leaving full time work, I worked from home offering audio typing services on a self-employed basis. In 1999 my husband spotted an advertisement in the local press for Electronic Notetakers (Speedtext Operators) to train to work with deaf and dyslexic students. However, following qualification as an Electronic Notetaker, I decided to learn stenography, in order to take a verbatim realtime note, through a distance learning course and the rest, as they say, is history. I obtained my CACDP and BIVR qualifications in the Winter of 2004/5 and became a Qualified Realtime Reporter (QRR) with the BIVR in 2010. I have loved the work ever since, enjoying the travelling and constantly meeting new people."
Mrs Susan Humphries -
Susan has been a member of BIVR since 2002, having transferred in from the APSW and a Council member since 2009.
"Having left school and not knowing what to do I embarked on a secretarial course at the local college. During this time I discovered the interesting, if not specialised, world of court reporting and decided that it sounded very interesting.
Having taken a job as a Personal Secretary for a few years I kept attending evening classes until I attained the speeds required to train to be a shorthand writer in the Crown Courts, mainly in the north of England. During this time, however, the Government of the day decided that we should all re-train as machine CATstenographers and so I undertook this training and subsequently worked in Crown Courts, bankruptcies, city council meetings, depositions and the like.
However, when the future of court reporting seemed uncertain with the change of Government contracts, I undertook a part-time honours degree course in Business at Leeds Metropolitan University which lasted for five years. I started as a self-employed freelancer in the mid 1990s and subsequently began to undertake tribunal disciplinary hearings.
In 2004 to 2006 I was fortunate to be employed by the Special Court for Sierra Leone in West Africa working as a court reporter in the civil war trials in the courts which were specially built for the purpose. During this time I met a lot of very interesting people from all nationalities and walks of life some of whom I am still intouch with.
Since my return to the UK, I have worked in the provincial courts in Ireland and the Four Courts in Dublin, but now my work is mainly disciplinary tribunals of all kinds and occasionally international arbitrations."
Mrs Karen Young -
Karen has been a member of BIVR since 1990 and a Council member since 2010.
"My ambition was always to be a journalist, so I really stumbled upon this career as I replied to an advertisement for "Court reporters". Discovering that it was not what I had originally set out to do, I decided to give it a go. I undertook my training with Sellers & Co in 1989 moving to Virgina Wason & Associates in 1990, qualifying in the summer of 1990. I have never looked back. It has been exciting, challenging, and I have learnt so much along the way. I took part in a television programme for the BBC filmed in Oxford called "Trial by Jury" in 1997 where I was the stenographer. At present, I specialise mainly in the field of professional regulatory work and occasional deposition work. I have enjoyed my career as no two days are the same and I have been lucky to meet a wide range of people."
Those magnificent machines
It seems that we still have not managed to get the message across. People still think that the machine is doing all the work!
A recent post on another site:
Realtime Reporter: Is it possible to have a 5-minute break at some point this afternoon to rest my hands?
Chairman: Well, we are under extreme pressure of time today. Is there any way you can set the system up so it continues running while you're having a break?
Names have been anonymised. Sec.
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