billchoa/3036384256-COMP7607-data huggingface dataset:
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: The warnings given by the police, some within the hearing of the arresting officers, involved stating in the present tense that the demonstrators were then causing an obstruction.

assistant: 警方所發出的警告以現在式詞語指出示威者當時正在造成阻礙，而其中一些警告是在逮捕人員聽力所及的範圍內發出。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: “The information acted on by the arresting officer need not be based on his own observations, as he is entitled to form a suspicion based on what he has been told.

assistant: “逮捕人員據以行事的資料無須建基於他本人的觀察，因爲他有權基於別人告訴他的事情而產生懷疑。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: It is my respectful view that this approach involves an entirely legitimate and necessary purposive construction of section 31. That provision is centred around ascertaining when the plaintiff first had “the knowledge required for bringing an action for damages in respect of the relevant damage” as stated in section 31(1)(a).

assistant: 依本席之見，這個探討方法涉及按第31條的立法目的而對該條文作出解釋，而這種解釋方法是完全合法和必需的。 該條文的核心在於確定原告人何時最先有「就有關損害而提出損害賠償訴訟所需的知悉」（如第31(1)(a)條所述）。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: Many States place the responsibility on the executive branch of government – typically the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

assistant: 許多國家將此責任放在政府的行政部門 – 通常是外交部。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: 1.  During the run-up to the 1997 handover the appellant developers conceived and pursued the idea of making a striking demonstration of confidence in Hong Kong’s future by erecting here what would be the tallest building in the world.

assistant: 1.  本案各名上訴人發展商於臨近1997年迴歸前構思在香港興建一幢全球最高的建築物，以期高調地表明對香港的未來充滿信心，並致力付諸實現。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: But where representations are addressed to a wide audience including some quite unsophisticated persons, the courts should not be astute to find ambiguity or qualification.

assistant: 但如果陳述的對象是一個廣大羣衆，當中包括一些沒有多大學識的人，法庭便不應刻意尋找陳述中有沒有含糊或約制的成份。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: Proportionality has perhaps been dormant but is not really new.

assistant: 相稱性一詞或許已少人提及，但實際上並非前所未見。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: 3.  The Yin Shuen judgment has been carefully considered by two differently constituted Courts of Appeal (comprising six judges in all) in four cases including the two under appeal to this Court.

assistant: 3. Yin Shuen判決曾經在四宗案件中，包括這兩宗現上訴至本院的案件，分別經由兩組不同成員（合共六名法官）組成的上訴法庭仔細考慮。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: (ii) in assessing the compensation to be paid on resumption no account may be taken of the prospect of obtaining such a modification;

assistant: (ii)  在評定就收地而須支付的補償額時，不可考慮取得這種修改的希望；
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: Geoffrey Lane LJ (later Lord Lane CJ) had spoken to much the same effect in the English Court of Appeal case of R v. Chief Immigration Officer, ex parte Salamat Bibi \n[1976] 1 WLR 979.

assistant: 在案例R v. Chief Immigration Officer, ex parte Salamat Bibi \n[1976] 1 WLR 979��，英國上訴法院法官Geoffrey Lane（後來成爲首席法官Lane勳爵）曾發表大致相若的意見。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: the investigator shall, before asking any question under this section, inform the person concerned of the limitation imposed by this subsection in respect of the admissibility in evidence of the question and any answer given.”

assistant: 調查員在根據本條向有關的人詢問前，須將本款對問題和所給答案可否被接受爲證據方面施加的限制，告知該人。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: For example, it was said, a payment of about $37.5 million from an account in the name of Hooray Securities in September 2001 was on its face a transaction of an entirely different nature from deposits three years later of 10 cheques to a total value of about $62.5 million.

assistant: 舉一個例子，上訴法庭指出有一筆約37,500,000元的款項於2001年9月從Hooray Securities名下一個戶口支付，而該宗交易在表面上與三年後以十張支票（總值約62,500,000元）的形式作出的存款是性質完全不同的交易。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: (ii) in any part of the Bylaw Area;

assistant: (ii)在附例適用區的任何部分；
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: What would be plainly unacceptable is for the courts to proceed on some unarticulated standard when deciding the question of genuine need.

assistant: 顯然不能接受的，是法庭根據某些未經清晰表達的標準來決定有否真正必要這個問題。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: In my view, this argument over-simplifies the nature of the advice which a client seeks and obtains from his lawyer.

assistant: 本席認爲，這種說法未免把當事人向其律師尋求和從而取得的意見的性質過於簡單化。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: (3) Each of them then purported to take the oath again.

assistant: (3) 二人繼而分別再次據稱作出宣誓。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: The extended order does not bar the institution of any new proceedings. Its scope is limited to constraining new proceedings which may be abusive.

assistant: 延伸命令並無禁止與訟人提起任何新的法律程序，其範圍僅在於限制可能帶濫用程序性質的新法律程序。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: Clause A(1)(a) of the Form of Agreement says that TW warrants that it "has exercised and will exercise all reasonable skill and care to ...\n the satisfaction of any performance specification".

assistant: 該協議格式的第A(1)(a)條訂明，津匯保證它「已行使並將行使所有合理技能及謹慎，以……達致符合任何性能規格的程度」。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: If, for example, a regulatory statute were to provide for imprisonment or a very heavy fine for an offence or serious misconduct, it is scarcely to be supposed that the relevant proceedings should be classified as civil.

assistant: 舉例說，如果一項規管性法規規定須就某項罪行或嚴重失當行爲判處監禁或鉅額罰款，則很難說有關法律程序應被分類爲民事程序。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: The scheme governs the entitlement of persons claiming permanent residence under para. 2(c) of Schedule 1 and, in consequence, the right of abode under Part 1A.

assistant: 這計劃規限那些聲稱根據附表1第2(c)段擁有永久性居民身份，從而根據第1A部享有居留權的人士所聲稱享有的權利。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: First, that it was considered inappropriate to conduct an annual Pay Trend Survey until the criticised methodology of its operation had been fully considered and, second, having regard to the state of the economy, civil service pay should not be frozen, as many staff representatives had suggested, but should be brought back to the levels at which it had stood on 30 June 1997, immediately before the change of sovereignty.

assistant: 第一點，不宜進行年度薪酬趨勢調查，直至其所採用的備受批評的方法獲充分考慮爲止。 第二點，因應經濟狀況，公務員薪酬不應（如衆多員工代表所建議般）被凍結，而應回到1997年6月30日當時（緊接主權移交之前）的水平。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: That misdirection did not affect this appellant because the trial judge had told the jury that it did not apply to him.

assistant: 該項錯誤指示並不影響本案的上訴人，因爲原審法官曾對陪審團說該項指示並不適用於本案的上訴人。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: With respect, this decision and this reasoning seem plainly correct.

assistant: 本席謹認爲，這項判決和這項論證看來顯然正確。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: It is impossible to find any rationale for attributing a different meaning to the expression where the union in question was entered into abroad.

assistant: 當有關關係是在外地締結時，並無可能找到任何理據給予該詞不同的涵義。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: Furthermore, following upon refusal of the 24 October 1998 application on 4 June 1999, in each of the relevant subsequent applications, the appellant consistently specified that he was seeking an unconditional stay.

assistant: 再者，在上述1998年10月24日的申請於1999年6月4日被駁回後，上訴人在其後每一項相關申請中均貫徹一致地指明他尋求無條件逗留。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: 34. In the present case it was impossible to distinguish participating subsidiaries from other internal creditors at the time when the meetings were summoned, for until each company's scheme was voted on it could not be known whether it would be a participating subsidiary or not.

assistant: 34.   在本案中，在召集會議的時候，根本不可能分辨哪些是有份參與的附屬公司、哪些是其他內部債權人，因爲要直到就每一家公司的債務償還安排進行投票之時，才能得悉某人是否有份參與的附屬公司。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: Article 57 of the PRC Constitution provides that the NPC is the highest organ of state power and the NPCSC is its permanent body.

assistant: 《中國憲法》第57條規定，全國人民代表大會是最高國家權力機關，人大常委會則是其常設機關。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: It would be a rare case indeed where, in administrative law terms, there is such a gap in the statutory framework that the exercise of power has to be judged, not by construing the relevant statute, but by the Basic Law itself.

assistant: 事實上，只有在罕見的個案中，纔會涉及法律框架下出現這種行政法所稱的缺口，以致須藉著解釋《基本法》本身而非有關的法規來判斷某項權力是否正確地行使。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: It must have been appreciated by all concerned, including the Director, that any attempt to return them to the Mainland, now as Vietnamese refugees, would be challenged.

assistant: 包括處長在內的所有有關人士均必然意識到，各名上訴人現時已屬越南難民，因此必會反對任何試圖把他們遣返內地的行動。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: This is an area involving powers which have always been reserved to the Central People’s Government, falling outside the limits of the Region’s autonomy.

assistant: 此範疇涉及香港特別行政區自治範圍以外，一直保留予中央人民政府的權力。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: If the land is compulsorily acquired or resumed, however, compensation must be assessed without regard to this possibility, even though this means that the claimant may well receive less by way of compensation for his interest than he could have obtained by a sale on the open market:

assistant: 然而，若該土地被強制徵用或收回，則在評定補償額時不得計算這種可能性，即使這意味著申索人就其權益而收取的補償很可能少於他原可藉在公開市場銷售而取得的，情況亦然：
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: This is reinforced by Article 18(1)[4].

assistant: 此規定爲第18(1)條[4]所鞏固。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: Thus, in GW v RW (Financial Provision :

assistant: 因此，GW v RW（Financial Provision :
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: But that is not to say that the sharing principle has been “displaced”.

assistant: 但這並不是說，共享原則已被“移開”。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: The limitation imposed must pursue a legitimate purpose and there must be reasonable proportionality between the limitation and the purpose sought to be achieved.

assistant: 其所施加的限制，必須是爲了要達致某個合法目的，且該限制與其尋求達致的目的必需合理地相稱。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: Both Senior Inspector Wong and Superintendent Chiu gave evidence not only as to the obstruction, but also to the potential dangers caused by the demonstration.

assistant: 黃高級督察和趙警司在作供時不僅提到阻礙，亦提到該示威所產生的潛在危險。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: It would then be for such authorities to decide on any appropriate course of action.

assistant: 有關資料如此被通告後，便將由該等機關決定採取任何適當行動。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: and Stone J in W v H and Z, CACV 127 of 2008, unreported (12 May 2009) at §81.

assistant: 及原訟法庭法官石仲廉在W v H and Z案，高院民事上訴2008年第127號，沒有收錄在案例彙編（2009年5月12日）第81段。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: First, by taking part in an arbitration, a State is obviously agreeing to submit to the contractual jurisdiction of the arbitrators. But that is obviously not the same thing as submitting to the jurisdiction of another State’s courts.

assistant: 首先，一個國家如果參與一項仲裁，便顯然表示同意接受仲裁者的合約司法管轄權，但這顯然有別於接受另一國家的法院的司法管轄權。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: 48.  Each of those three witnesses was qualified to provide the court with relevant information about market conditions and practices.

assistant: 48.  該三位證人中均有資格向法庭提供關於市場狀況和常規的資料。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: Nothing further was done until 4 April 2001, when LOMs were sent to the Directors of ICEA collectively, Meocre Li and Michael Ng, proposing a public reprimand against each of them.

assistant: 證監會並無採取任何進一步行動，直至2001年4月4日才分別向工商東亞的一衆董事、李國榮及Michael Ng發出紀律處分意向書，當中建議公開譴責他們。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: Chief Justice Li : 218.

assistant: 終審法院首席法官李國能︰ 218.
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: Before January 1995, they were dealt with under the various sections in the Ordinance as set out above with a shift to the use of the second limb of section 13D(1) (pending removal) after August 1993.

assistant: 1995年1月之前，當局根據該條例中的上述各項條文處理他們，1993年8月之後則轉爲引用第13D(1)條第二部分（等候遣離）。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: That range accords with my own limited and dated experience of personal injury cases in Hong Kong.

assistant: 這與本席早前在香港處理人身傷害訟案的有限經驗相符。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: The liquidator is clearly bound unless it falls within any established exceptions. The fact that there are established excepted classes does not mean that the present case should fall within such classes.

assistant: 除非有關謄本屬既定的例外類別，否則清盤人顯然須受該規定約束，而既定的例外類別存在並不表示本案亦屬此類別。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: In any event, her application for verification of eligibility for identity card in September 1998 would also have amounted to a claim of which the Immigration had a record.

assistant: 無論如何，她於1998年9月提出覈實她可獲發身份證的資格的申請亦足以構成一項聲稱，而這項聲稱入境事務處是存有紀錄的。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: Section 1602 describes the Act’s two primary purposes :

assistant: 第1602條描述了該法令兩個主要目的：
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: 37.  It follows that proceedings which may result in the imposition of a penalty for wrongful conduct will involve the determination of a criminal charge unless they have a character which is neither criminal nor penal.

assistant: 37.  由此可見，可能導致對不當行爲施加懲罰的法律程序，乃涉及對一項刑事控告作出判決，除非有關程序不帶有刑事或懲罰性質，才作別論。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: 2nd period of detention

assistant: 第二段羈留期
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: 26. The removal orders against the 17 applicants were made by the Director on various dates in February 1999.

assistant: 26.  處長於1999年2月的不同日期對本案17名申請人發出遣送離境令。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: Article 86 of the Basic Law provides that the principle of trial by jury previously practised in Hong Kong shall be maintained.

assistant: 《基本法》第86條規定，原在香港實行的陪審制度的原則予以保留。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: The proportionality test is well recognized internationally as appropriate in relation to the protection of fundamental rights.

assistant: 國際間早已承認，“相稱性”驗證標準是有助保障基本權利的適當驗證標準。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: The Director of Immigration cannot be criticised for rejecting persons who were merely making inquiries as not qualifying under the policy decision.

assistant: 入境事務處處長拒絕那些僅僅作出查詢的人士，因爲根據該政策決定，他們並不符合資格，他這樣做不應受批評。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: There is not - and has never been - any discrete complaint by her as to sentence or costs.

assistant: 她沒有 — 亦從來沒有 — 針對判刑或訟費判決另行提出申訴。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: Spurious new elements may be introduced into the case, perhaps hoping to disguise the fact that it is in reality no more than an attempt at re-litigating a lost cause.

assistant: 濫用程序者亦可在案件中引入似是而非的新元素，此舉可能是爲了掩飾該案件實際上只是試圖就一項註定失敗的目標重新提起訴訟。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: Article 84 expressly provides that the courts in Hong Kong may refer to precedents of other common law jurisdictions.

assistant: 第84條明文規定，香港法院可參考其他普通法司法管轄區的司法判例。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: To realise this idea, I have decided to start a private practice beginning from 3rd March this year at rooms 1303-05, 13/F, Oterprise Square, number 26 Nathan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon.

assistant: 爲實現這個想法，本人已決定由今年3月3日開始私人執業，診所位於九龍尖沙咀彌敦道26號東企業廣場13字樓1303-05室。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: The husband is therefore required to pay over to the wife a net lump sum of $11.9 million.

assistant: 因此，丈夫必需付給妻子的一整筆款項，淨額爲1190萬元。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: I can accordingly see no compelling reason for permitting derogation from the presumption of innocence in the present case.

assistant: 據此，在本案，本席看不到任何令人信服的理由，以准許無罪假定的效力受到減損。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: The context is that of his fundamental and entrenched right to be presumed innocent.

assistant: 獲假定無罪是他的基本和受憲法保證的權利；
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: In his reply submissions, Mr Harris correctly withdrew the argument that Supt Chiu should be regarded as the arresting officer in the light of the authorities canvassed.

assistant: 考慮到與訟各方所探討的案例典據，夏博義先生在其回應陳詞中正確地撤回他指趙警司應被視爲逮捕人員的論據。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: It follows that in this appeal against the trial judge's order for a permanent stay, the Court has jurisdiction to determine whether the judge's discretion was exercised in accordance with law and this jurisdiction extends to deciding whether the trial judge misapprehended the facts.

assistant: 其他問題關乎與酌情權的行使方式有關的其他事宜。 因此，在本宗針對原審法官頒下永久擱置程序令的上訴中，本院具有司法管轄權裁定法官是否依法行使酌情權。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: It is well-established at common law that a party seeking to enforce an arbitration award (or a judgment) against a foreign State on the basis of a waiver of state immunity must establish a waiver at two distinct stages.

assistant: 根據一項普通法早經確立的做法，訴訟一方如以某個外國國家放棄其國家豁免爲理由，要求強制執行一項仲裁裁決（或一項判決），便須分兩個不同的階段，證實該國家放棄豁免。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: The second sub-paragraph of Article 24 will, for example, be referred to as Article 24(2).

assistant: 舉例說，第24條第二小段將稱爲第24（2）條。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: Sir Anthony Mason NPJ: 64.

assistant: 終審法院非常任法官梅師賢爵士： 64.
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: The bricks were seized by customs officers as they were in course of being illegally exported across the Hong Kong – Mainland border in contravention of the IEO.

assistant: 該批銀塊是在越過中英邊境非法輸出時被海關關員因其違反該條例而檢取的。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: Secondly, the position of the Court of Final Appeal, which replaced the Privy Council as Hong Kong’s final appellate court on 1 July 1997, as regards departure from previous decisions.

assistant: 其二，自1997年7月1日起取代樞密院而成爲本港最終上訴法院的終審法院在背離先前裁決方面的立場。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: As the Chief Justice has remarked in his judgment, the policy reasons laid down by the legislature in enacting Immigration (Amendment) Ordinances No. 2 and 3 included the discouragement of illegal entry into Hong Kong and of illegal stay here in contravention of conditions of stay, as well as the prevention of queue-jumping ahead of Mainland residents who have applied for certificates of entitlement but have not broken the law.

assistant: 正如本院首席法官在其判詞中指出，立法機構在制定第2號和第3號《入境（修訂）條例》時所定下的政策理由，包括阻止任何人非法進入香港及違反逗留條件在本港非法逗留，以及防止有人在已申請居留權證明書但並無犯法的內地居民前面插隊。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: There is a world of difference between, on the one hand, seeing what the width of a gap is and, on the other hand, realising that such width is insufficient.

assistant: 一方面看見空隙的濶度爲何，與另一方面認識到該濶度不足夠，兩者之間有着天淵之別。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: But that having been said the applicant should not be sentenced as if the charge had been brought under section 4.”

assistant: 但話雖如此，法庭不應視申請人如同根據第4條被檢控般處以刑罰。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: However, mandatory life prisoners continued to receive different treatment.

assistant: 然而，被判處強制性終身監禁的囚犯繼續受到不同的對待。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: Having been told of the complaints, he, together with Senior Inspector Wong Tak-hung (“SIP Wong”), inspected the scene at about 09:00 hrs.

assistant: 在接獲有關投訴後，他聯同高級督察黃德雄（“黃高級督察”）於上午約9時到現場視察。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: (1) The appeal is allowed.

assistant: (1) 上訴得直。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: 40.  Those are the safeguards in the circumstances of cases such as the present one. They are clear, focused, real and effective safeguards.

assistant: 40.  上文所述是在例如本案的情況下所採取的保障措施，該等措施清晰、集中、真實且有效。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: However, any member of the [Disciplinary Committee] present may request any legal adviser present to clarify or elaborate upon any answers given by their clients;

assistant: 然而，出席聆訊的[紀律委員會]成員，可要求任何出席聆訊的法律顧問澄清或詳細闡述其當事人所提供的答案；
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: It was possible that a video tape might have picked up and recorded the events that afternoon.

assistant: 攝錄機可能將當日下午發生的那些事情攝錄下來。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: E.      Kensland’s claim and the secondary limitation period E.1    Kensland’s case on knowledge 120.

assistant: E.  Kensland的申索與第二時效期 E.1  Kensland就知悉而言的案情 120.
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: In these circumstances we think that the procedure whereby the magistrate announced her decision to bind-over the appellant was in breach of the requirements of natural justice as well as lacking the requisite precision in its terms.

assistant: 在這些情況下，我等認爲裁判官藉以宣佈決定要上訴人籤保的程序，違反了自然公義的要求，而且籤保條款亦缺乏所需的準確度。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: However, there may not be any representative applicant in this category.

assistant: 可是，這個類別的人士可能沒有代表申請人。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: Their mothers were illegal immigrants, holders of two way permits or transient overstayers and their fathers were either temporarily or not resident in Hong Kong.

assistant: 這些人士的母親如不是非法入境者、便是持雙程證者或短暫逾期居留人士，而他們的父親如不是在香港臨時居留，便是本身並非香港居民。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: if it were, it would lead to the absurd result that, after dismissing an employee under clause 35.3 without giving reasons and telling him to clear his room, the employer could visit the employee, a minute later, while he was clearing his room, to tell him that he had been dismissed for disciplinary reasons.

assistant: 僱主在根據第35.3條不解釋理由而解僱一名僱員及要求他清理其房間後，可在一分鐘後當該名僱員正在清理其房間時當面告訴他他是因紀律理由而被解僱。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: The crucial question before us is what test the Court should apply in considering whether the classification condition is satisfied.

assistant: 我等面對的問題關鍵在於法院在考慮該條款是否符合“類別條件”時，應該採用何種考慮原則。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: Furthermore, from 1 July 1997, the Central People’s Government would be responsible for the foreign affairs relating to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

assistant: 而且，自1997年7月1日起，與香港特別行政區有關的外交事務由中央人民政府管理。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: The Court of Appeal is therefore free to choose which decision to follow.

assistant: 它們顯然不能同時具有約束力，因此上訴法庭可自由選擇遵循哪一項裁決。
user: Please translate the following sentence from English to Chinese: He went with his family to the Immigration Department on 31 July 1997 and was told that he could not do so and there was no procedure.

assistant: 他在1997年7月31日和他的家人前往入境事務處，但獲告知他的做法不能接受亦沒有方法處理。