Legal Translation (HKDOJ)

Problem

Legal translation often hinges on term selection rather than general vocabulary. The same Chinese term may map differently in HK/common-law and PRC contexts: 物权 can be property right or real right, while 法定代表人 and 审判委员会 may lack stable common-law equivalents. Relying on generic dictionaries can produce translations that read well but miss the legal system.

How It Works

The skill turns terminology lookup into a concrete workflow: determine the query direction (Chinese to English, English to Chinese, or both), then match in the order exact -> substring -> fuzzy. For domain-specific queries, add a --domain filter for civil, criminal, commercial, procedural, constitutional/administrative, or international law. It combines roughly 34,000 general terms derived from the HKDOJ bilingual glossary with about 950 PRC-specific terms sourced from the Civil Code, Criminal Law, Company Law, procedural laws, constitutional/administrative law, and international law. Results can be rendered as text or JSON, making it easier to feed into review, comparison, or MCP-based legal research pipelines.

Boundaries

The skill focuses on term alignment, not full statutory retrieval or document-level translation. The HK-sourced glossary leans toward common law, so PRC-specific concepts such as 人民调解, 行政复议, and 指导性案例 should be checked against the mainland terms file. Verify final wording against statutory text, official English translations, and relevant judicial materials.