“We
were looking for a 32-bit solution which would
offer our clients greater speed, functionality
and reliability than our competitors' 16-bit
designs ... we chose dtSearch”
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Sellers Legal Services has some 90 years experience
in providing courtroom services in the UK. Today
it combines a team of expert stenographers and
fully supported specialist software to provide
a complete solution. Among the litigation support
software that Sellers produce is a powerful new
realtime transcript analysis tool called BriefCase.
Realtime transcription simplifies and speeds
up court procedure. Mental notes can be quickly
transposed into on-screen notes, making hastily
hand-written reminders a thing of the past. Delays
caused by note-taking, poor courtroom acoustics
or ambiguities in evidence are avoided. Time spent
each evening searching the transcript for key
passages of evidence is greatly reduced.
BriefCase enables
solicitors, barristers, judges or paralegals to
mark, annotate and search for text in a transcript
live in court within seconds of the evidence being
given. Briefcase integrates with Computer Aided
Transcription (CAT) - which translates stenographers'
shorthand into English - to turn realtime transcript
into formatted text on screen. Uniquely, BriefCase
allows users to search the text, write comments
on it, print or e-mail it, without disconnecting
from realtime (CAT) so that nothing is missed
from the proceedings.The system is completely
networkable so that text can be transmitted to
any number of courtroom laptops. |
“The
dtSearch Text Retrieval Engine allowed us
to quickly produce a very advanced product...”
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"We were looking for a 32-bit solution which
would offer our clients greater speed, functionality
and reliability than our competitors' 16-bit designs.
After comparing with other search tools on the market
we chose dtSearch", said Nic Lyons, chief developer
of BriefCase.
The dtSearch Text Retrieval Engine allows BriefCase
to offer full-text queries both on the transcript
text and the annotations which the user had added,
with Boolean, phonic and fuzzy methods supported.
Query 'hits' are provided along with context and
position information. Users just click to open
the transcript with matched words highlighted.
"The dtSearch Text Retrieval Engine has allowed
us to quickly produce a very advanced product,
and its 32-bit design allows for greater integration
with future systems", said Mr Lyons.
"Sellers is well qualified to support BriefCase,
having provided CAT training for three-quarters
of all UK courtroom note-takers when it was first
introduced into British courts in the early '90s",
noted Ray Harris, MD of ElectronArt Design Ltd.,
UK distributor of dtSearch since 1992.
Sellers has provided court reporting sevices
for:
| Stephen Lawrence Inquiry
1998 |
| North Wales Child Abuse
Inquiry 1997 |
| Regina v Judge Gee 1998 |
For more information on Briefcase and other litigation
support software visit www.sellers.co.uk or contact:
Sellers Legal Services
High Holborn House
52-54 High Holborn
London WC1V 6RL
Tel: +44 (0)20 7405 4512
Fax: +44 (0)20 7405 4526
info@sellers.co.uk
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