directors

Director Lesley Dankbaar: Since qualifying in 1971, Lesley Dankbaar has worked as a court reporter in state and federal jurisdictions in every state of Australia. In 1989 Lesley established ComputerReporters with Errol Carter. In 1991 Lesley set up the first computer-integrated courtroom and produced the transcript for the first realtime court in NSW. She pioneered television stenocaptioning in Australia and undertook pro bono work for deaf and hard-of-hearing communities.

Lesley was the first non-American to be elected to the board of the US-based Society for the Technological Advancement of Reporting (STAR). She travels to the US twice a year for court technology/software conferences, and is a beta tester for the Stenograph Corporation.

Lesley is committed to the teaching of the next generation of court reporters and, with Errol Carter, was instrumental in the establishment of the Australian School of Court Reporting (NSW).

Director Errol Carter: Errol Carter has almost three decades of experience, both as a reporter and in various senior management positions, since commencing as a court reporter in the South Australian courts in 1970.

Errol has worked not only in every state and jurisdiction in Australia but also at the House of Commons, London, the OId Bailey and various English Crown courts. In addition, he has travelled extensively to New Zealand, the USA, Canada and Europe on either study tours or to attend various international conferences, particularly those at which new courtroom technologies are showcased.

Since co-founding ComputerReporters with Lesley Dankbaar in 1989, Errol has been prominent within the court reporting profession, having served as President of the Australian Shorthand Reporters Association (NSW) and President of the CAT Users Group Australia (a software users group for court reporters), is President-elect of the Shorthand Reporters Association of Australia and has frequently been Australia's delegate to various professional conferences in the USA and Europe.

Australian School of Court Reporting: As prominent leaders in their profession and being acutely aware of the industry's need for highly trained court reporters, Errol and Lesley founded the Australian School of Court Reporting (NSW), which commenced in February 1999, to train future stenocaptioners and court and parliamentary reporters.