Guide
A machine translation is a working aid. A document you file, or a translation a witness adopts, needs a translator the court will accept.
A working translation helps you decide what the document is about and which passages need a certified translator. It is not the exhibit. Queensland Guidance Statement No. 37 applies before a confidential original is uploaded, and the Law Society of New South Wales guide expects you to know the limit of that draft.
A translation you file, or one a witness will adopt, needs a translator that forum accepts. NAATI certification is the usual way to show that competence. It is not a rule that every court has written in the same words, and it is not a sentence the model can add. Do not ask the tool to make the translation certified. The Uniform Law regulators’ statement leaves the solicitor responsible for the document put before the court.
The forum decides how a translation is proved and whether a generative tool may touch the evidence. NSW Supreme Court Practice Note SC Gen 23 treats translation that does not generate substantive content differently from a tool that rewrites a witness’s words. Open the note for the court you are in before a translated affidavit is settled.
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Yes, for a working translation the lawyer will not file as the translation. A filed or adopted translation needs a translator the court will accept. NAATI certification is the usual proof of that. Read the court’s rule. The model cannot certify its own translation.
This catalogue does not list a certified-translation product. A general tool is a reading aid. The translator’s certificate is the document you file.
No. Certification is the translator’s. A sentence that says the model is certified is false.
