Upon the request of any counsel of record, or of any party not represented by counsel, and upon payment of the reasonable cost thereof, the court reporter covering any proceeding shall provide the requesting party with a copy of the transcript of such proceeding or any requested portion thereof.
The court shall not direct the court reporter to cease recording any portion of the proceeding without the consent of all parties or of their counsel of record.
Whenever a party seeks to introduce the transcript or record of the testimony of a witness at an earlier trial, hearing or deposition, it shall not be necessary for the reporter to be present to prove the transcript or record, provided the reporter duly certifies, in writing, the accuracy of the transcript or record.
1983, c. 505; 1990, c. 77.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in
5
cases (
2 in the last 5 years), 1995–2023 · leading case:
White v. Morano, 452 S.E.2d 856 (Va. 1995).
White v. Morano, 452 S.E.2d 856 (Va. 1995).
· cites it 2× “; Code § 8.01-420.3. But one party is under no duty to provide a transcript at its own expense for the other’s benefit.”
Smith v. Richmond Newspapers, Inc., 540 S.E.2d 878 (Va. 2001).
· cites it 4× “Thus, because this statute is consistent with the provision of Rule 1:3 that trial transcripts may be made available to interested persons “upon terms and conditions to be fixed in each case by the judge,” trial transcripts, or audio tape recordings, are not “open to inspection”…”
Waller v. Commonwealth, 467 S.E.2d 844 (Va. Ct. App. 1996).
· cites it 2× “…is no longer required. The *61 transcript, if properly certified by the court reporter, is self-authenticating. See Code § 8.01-420.3.”
Robert Dunn Hudson v. Lynsey Alexis Massie, No. 1369223 (Va. Ct. App. Oct. 24, 2023).
· cites it 2× “This was error under Code § 8.01-420.3: Whenever a party seeks to introduce the transcript or record of the testimony of a witness at an earlier trial, hearing or deposition, it shall not be necessary for the reporter to be present to prove the transcript or record, provided the…”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the
Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and
treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.