Talk:Public procurator

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Mein Gott! Do we really need the entire Public Procurators Law of the People's Republic of China?

Bathrobe 01:23, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

True, but how much is it here that is needed anyway? --Kaizer13 01:24, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Well, it would be useful to have a rundown on Public Procurators, which is a feature of former Socialist countries. I was looking for information on Public Procurators in Mongolia.

In fact, this whole area on Wikipedia is a bit of a mess. The Supreme People's Procuratorate (of China), the Supreme People's Procuracy of Vietnam and the Procurator General of the USSR all have their own articles. For some reason, the law on the Chinese body is all dumped here. What is stranger, the modern Russian office is found under Prosecutor General of Russia, even though the name in Russian is still Генеральный Прокурор Российской Федерации (where Прокурор is equivalent to "Procurator").

Bathrobe 01:28, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Having looked into this further, there seems to be a terminological issue here. Terms cognate with 'procurator' are found in many languages (French procureur, Spanish procurador, Italian procurator -- forgive me if the spelling is wrong), but these are all treated as 'prosecutor' in English. It's only in Socialist jurisdictions that the English translation 'procurator' is used as a translation of Прокурор. Notice also that 检察院 (Chinese) is translated as 'Procuratorate' while 検察官 (Japanese) is 'public prosecutor'.

Bathrobe 02:24, 7 August 2007 (UTC)