{"id":5637,"date":"2017-02-28T10:53:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T04:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/?p=5637"},"modified":"2024-01-16T12:06:21","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T04:06:21","slug":"1720-stra-20170302105601","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/1720-stra-20170302105601\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectures on Business and Legal Translation (3)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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28 February 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

The third talk of the MA lecture series was held on 27 February 2017 and its title was \u201cNovice Court Interpreters: Sheep among Wolves?\u201d Our speaker, Mr Stephen Yeung, is a former Deputy Special Magistrate with the Judiciary of HKSAR.<\/p>\n

Mr Yeung started the lecture by introducing the legal system and court system in Hong Kong. He explained that interpreters are indispensable because the law guarantees the right to a fair trial to everyone. He also talked about the documents that interpreters would come across at trial, for in stance, expert or technical reports, statutes or judgments etc.<\/p>\n

Mr Yeung emphasised that the court expects a high standard of interpretation, and there is no allowance for inexperience as it wouldinfluence the outcome of the trial inadvertently and mislead the judge into making the wrong decision.<\/p>\n

Mr Yeung advised the audience that, in order to be a professional court interpreter, it is essential to be familiar with the court procedure, to build one\u2019s\u00a0 own library and glossary and to do research before the trial.<\/p>\n

He concluded the lecture with his reflection: \u201cwhoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The speaker explained the legal system in Hong Kong to the audience<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Mr Yeung (left) and Dr Elvis Lee, the Programme Director of MATBL<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"28 February 2017 The third talk of the MA lecture series was held on 27 February 2017 and its title was \u201cNovice Court Interpreters: Sheep among Wolves?\u201d Our speaker, Mr Stephen Yeung, is a former Deputy Special Magistrate with the Judiciary of HKSAR. Mr Yeung started the lecture by introducing the legal system and court […]","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":7364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[10,111],"tags":[],"topics":[],"month":[300],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5637"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12788,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637\/revisions\/12788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5637"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=5637"},{"taxonomy":"month","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/month?post=5637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}