{"id":2247,"date":"2013-02-28T21:45:47","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T10:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/?p=2247"},"modified":"2013-02-28T22:31:26","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T11:31:26","slug":"vcat-hearing-transcription-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/2013\/02\/vcat-hearing-transcription-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"VCAT hearing transcription costs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week I asked for a copy of the VCAT hearing I was a party in, so that I could refer to it during a planning panel submission.<\/span><\/p>\n

I was told that\u00a0 VCAT no longer give copies of the audio, and that I would have to pay for a company to transcribe it.\u00a0 I am sure that to transcribe two days of hearing, roughly 16 hours, is going to be damn expensive. Particularly as I only need a couple of sections, not the whole thing…. received a quote from one of the parties on the VCAT approved list, it was as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n

“The cost is $7.50 per A4 page (GST inclusive).\u00a0 I would estimate for one hearing hour you would receive circa 25 to 30 pages of transcript.<\/em>” ( $7.50 x 25-30 pages per hour, x 16 hours = $3,000 – $3,600.)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

They also said that I still wouldn’t get the audio file – so I can’t cross check, or show the way things were said… All I wanted is a copy of the recorded file – why can’t VCAT just give it to me on a DVD, or let me download it.\u00a0 There are no secrets there – we were all present !<\/span><\/p>\n

From the VCAT Website\u00a0 (Fair, efficient justice for all Victorians:)\u00a0 There is a form on the VCAT website to request the transcription<\/span><\/a> service. and Guidelines for Requesting Transcription<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

What I suggest, is take your own digital recorder in from your local eletronics store – $70 will get you a 500hr 2Gig recorder – the size of a phone – or just use your phone if it is upto the task.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week I asked for a copy of the VCAT hearing I was a party in, so that I could refer to it during a planning panel submission. I was told that\u00a0 VCAT no longer give copies of the audio, and that I would have to pay for a company to transcribe it.\u00a0 I am […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,19],"tags":[118,117],"class_list":["post-2247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-density-developments","category-vcat","tag-accessible","tag-expensive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2247"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2274,"href":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions\/2274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}