14. A. Complete the table. The Judge
Responsibilities |
Requirements |
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To obey law, to be of twenty five years and over, to administer justice, to have command of the Ukrainian language, to be independent, to reside in Ukraine for at least ten years, to guarantee protection of human and civil rights and freedoms, to have higher legal education, to make judicial decisions according to the law, to have at least three years of legal work experience, to protect rights and interests of legal entities, to ensure public and state interests.
B. Speak about the responsibilities of and requirements to a judge using the table.
Express your opinion.
What personal qualities should a judge have?
Is there any danger in judge’s work?
OVER TO YOU
16. Read the joke and answer the questions.
A Wise Judge
Once there lived two brothers. They worked together on their father’s farm. They were very honest and got along together very well. One day their father died leaving his property to his two sons. In his last will he told them to divide the property between them.
But the brothers could not agree now. Each wanted to have the better part for himself. After some time they even did not speak to each other. At last they went to a judge who was very wise and always knew how to settle such difficult matters.
The judge listened to them carefully and then said: “The matter is very simple. We shall divide the property in this way. One of you will divide it in the way he thinks is the best and the other one will then have the right to choose whichever of the two parts he prefers.”
In this way the case was settled.
Would you agree to be the first or the second brother?
Did the judge do any of the brothers a favour?
What would be your decision if you were in that judge’s place?
17. Just for fun!
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The Judge asked the defendant, “Mr. Jones, do you understand that you have sworn to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?” “I do.” “Now what do you say to defend yourself?” “Your Honour, under those limitations… nothing.” ***
The judge said to his dentist: “Pull my tooth, the whole tooth and nothing but the tooth.”
Topic “investigator”
Answer the questions:
1) What do you know about the work of an investigator?
2) Would you like to be an investigator?
3) What personal and professional qualities are important for an investigator?
Read the text and fulfill the post-reading tasks.
Investigator
In accordance with the Ukrainian legislation, the Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine, the Ministry of the Interior, Tax Police and the Security Service of Ukraine have their own investigation departments, which perform a pretrial investigation. A pretrial investigation is carried out in accordance with the Criminal Code of Ukraine. It is conducted after certain criminal proceedings have been instituted and should be closed within 2 months.
An official who is responsible for a crime investigation is called an investigator. A citizen of Ukraine who has higher legal education and has corresponding qualification to carry out pretrial investigation may become an investigator. Besides this person should possess certain analytical mentality enabling him/her to foresee plans and actions of criminals. The main task of an investigator is to prepare the materials of cases for court hearing.
Investigators from the Prosecutor’s Office deal with the crimes against electoral, labour and other individual rights and freedoms of individuals, crimes against the environment, such crime as malfeasance and crimes, committed by officers of law-enforcement bodies.
Investigators from the Ministry of Interior have the right to investigate more serious crimes such as murder, embezzlement on a large scale, rape, banditry, drug and people trafficking, burglary and less serious crimes such as theft, swindling, disorderly conduct, economic crimes, juvenile delinquency and others.
Investigators from the Security Service of Ukraine investigate cases of treason, espionage, smuggling, organized crime, acts of terrorism and crimes against peace, security of mankind and international law and order.
Investigators from the Tax Police investigate cases of evasion of taxes, illegal use of foreign currency accounts abroad, money laundering, etc.
Before a case is submitted to court a pretrial investigation has to:
1) establish whether or not an offence has actually been committed, under what circumstances it occurred and the identity of the parties concerned; 2) provide a comprehensive research of all circumstances of a criminal case; 3) discover proofs for the judicial proceedings; 4) establish the extent of the injury or damage caused by the offence, the gain effected by the offender and the demands of the injured party 5) prevent new offences.
In fact investigators are entrusted to disclose crimes and expose people who are guilty of them. In the course of investigation they study the materials of cases, look for suspects, question witnesses, carry out inspection of the scene of a crime etc.