Now when you go to jail-- I mean when you go to court, slaves of course can't represent themselves in court at all, they don't have any legal standing.

如果你进监狱。。。,我是说如果你上法院，奴隶当然不能在法庭上代表自己，他们没有任何法律地位。

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I give them legal advice and legal representation, and go to court with them and all sorts of things.

我会给他们一些法律方面的建议，做他们的法定代理人，陪同他们去法院诉讼等等。

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and you sort of just decide if you want to go into litigation, which is the trial and court practice

你只要决定你想不想参与诉讼，就是审判和法庭程序，

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