AK
The Statement of Reasons should be typed as it is only produced to order, the Record of Proceedings is produced during the hearing by the Judge and is usually hand written, under normal circumstances a claimant would receive a photocopy of these pages.
I am afraid I don't think you have any real leverage to have the whole RofP transcribed, all you can do is indicate what is not legible, I would recommend that you indicate the paragraphs that you have problems with rather than individual words, it will reduce the amount of work for you and ensure that the full context of the words are available to you.
Gordon
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