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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