TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1989
THE LAW MUST NEVER BE SEEN TO BE REMOTE, ALIEN, MYSTERIOUS LAWYERS TO BE SEEN AS ITS ARCANE ADEPTS. HE SAID.
AND
ULTIMATELY, NOT UPON
MR MATHEWS SAID THE RULE OF LAW RESTED, THE HOPES AND ENDEAVOURS OF JUDGES AND LAWYERS, BUT UPON THAT IT ENJOYED IN THE EYES OF THE COMMUNITY.
SERVES
THE RESPECT
FEELS THAT IS HOSTILE TO
POTENTIAL,
"IF THE COMMUNITY (WHOM OF COURSE THE LAW
EVEN WORSE, OR, THE LAW IS REMOTE FROM THEIR LIVES THEIR PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. THEIR FREEDOM TO DEVELOP THEIR THEIR CAPACITY FOR IMPROVEMENT, THEN THE LAW WILL CEASE RESPECT OF THE PEOPLE AND THEN WHAT PRICE THE RULE OF LAW?
TO
HAVE
THE
ALL THE WAYS SERVE WITH US BY
"SO IT BEHOVES US ALL TO STRIVE AT ALL TIMES IN WE PRACTISE OUR PROFESSION TO CARRY THOSE WHOM WE MAKING THE LAW MORE ACCESSIBLE TO ALL."
ON "THE SOME ASPECT
AT THE CONFERENCE MR MATHEWS SAID HIS PAPER TABLED LANGUAGE OF THE LAW: THE HONG KONG EXPERIENCE" DESCRIBED OF THE LAW'S ACCESSIBILITY IN HONG KONG.
PRODUCED BEING CHINESE CAN BE
THE
TO PLAN
OF LAWS THE ADVENT WITH THE PAPER DEALS BILINGUALLY, DISCUSSES THE WAYS IN WHICH, HOPEFULLY, USED MORE EXTENSIVELY IN THE COURTS AND ALSO ADDRESSES PRODUCE BILINGUAL LAWYERS.
CONTEXT," MR MATHEWS SAID.
"IT IS IMPORTANT TO
SEE THESE DEVELOPMENTS
BETTER LANGUAGE
IN THE BROADER
SKILLS, IN BOTH LIFE IN HONG
"THE DEMANDS FOR MORE AND ENGLISH AND CHINESE, RUN ACROSS THE ENTIRE SPECTRUM OF KONG, AS THIS VIBRANT COMMUNITY TAKES HONG KONG INTO THE FOREFRONT THE WORLD OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCE. COMMERCE AND BANKING.
"IT IS, I BELIEVE, VITALLY IMPORTANT THE LAW KEEPS THIS TREND,
RECOGNISES WHICH CHARACTER.
11
OF
KONG'8 HONG
ESSENTIALLY
ABREAST
BILINGUAL
OF
LAWS
WAS PROGRAMME
AN "EXCITING" TEXTS FOR ALL MORE
HE SAID
THE
BILINGUAL
CHALLENGE. IT WOULD INVOLVE THE PRODUCTION OF CHINESE NEW STATUTES AS WELL AS FOR THE EXISTING STATUTE BOOK CONTAINING THAN 20,000 PAGES OF ENGLISH TEXT.
WAS PROGRAMME HE SAID THE AIM OF THE
WHERE SITUATION ACCESSIBILITY, "TO ARRIVE AT A COMMUNITY CAN, IF HE OR SHE SO WISHES. TURN TO READ THE LAW IN HIS OR HER OWN LANGUAGE."
THE
OF GOAL ULTIMATE ANY MEMBER OF THE ΤΟ THE STATUTE BOOK
THIS CHALLENGE HAS REQUIRED
THE MOBILISATION
OF MANY HUMAN
RESOURCES.
A
FIRSTLY, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS HAS HAD TO BUILD UP
DRAFTSMEN
BY A CORPS OF HIGHLY SKILLED BACKED TEAM OF BILINGUAL TRANSLATORS COUPLED WITH A TEAM OF PARA-LEGALS INCLUDING PROOFREADERS,
USE AND CALLIGRAPHISTS CLERICAL OFFICERS
TRAINED
IN
THE
OF
CHINESE-LANGUAGE WORD PROCESSORS.
/"IN ALL