III. Agree or disagree:

1. The Constitutional Court of Ukraine is the sole body of constitutional jurisdiction in Ukraine.

2. The activity of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine is based on the principles of legality, independence, collegiality, the equality of the judges, transparency and a full, comprehensive study of every case and validity of its decisions.

3. The jurisdiction of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine includes the resolution of laws and other legal acts and the official interpretation of the Constitution of Ukraine and laws of Ukraine.

4. The Constitutional Court of Ukraine consists of eight justices.

5. Some of the justices are appointed by The President of Ukraine (after consultations with the Prime-Minister and Minister of Finance of Ukraine).

6. Some of the justices are appointed by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and some – by the assembly of judges of Ukraine.

7. The justices are appointed for nine years with the right to reappointment.

8. A justice of the Constitutional Court must be a citizen of Ukraine who upon the date of appointment is at least fifty years old.

9. A justice of the Constitutional Court must possesses a higher education and at least ten years professional experience, has resided in Ukraine for the last twenty years, and is fluent in the languages.

10. The justices of the Constitutional Court may not belong to political parties and trade unions, shall not participate in any political activity, shall not have a representative mandate, may not hold any other paid position, or perform other paid work even scholarly, instructional, and creative.

IV. Answer the questions:

1. What does the Constitutional Court guarantee?

2. What principles is the Constitutional Court based on?

3. What does the jurisdiction of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine include?

4. How many judges are there in the Constitutional Court of Ukraine? Who appoints them?

5. Who can become the judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine

Who can be appointed to the position of a prosecutor?

I. Read and memorize the following words and word combinations:

unified – уніфікований, the Attorney General of Ukraine – Генеральний прокурор України, attached – прикріплений, доданий, constitute – утворювати, складати, entrust – доручати, on behalf of – від імені, the supervision of the observance of laws – нагляд за дотриманням законів, inquiry – розслідування, coercion – примус, насильство, restraint – обмеження, preliminary investigation – попереднє розслідування

II. Read and translate the text.

The prosecution bodies of Ukraine constitute a unified centralized system that is headed by the Attorney General of Ukraine. The system of prosecution bodies constitutes the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine, the Prosecutor's Offices of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, regions, cities of Kiev and Sevastopol (on the basis of regional), local, district, inter-district and other attached to them, and the Military Prosecutor's offices.

The prosecution bodies constitute a three level system. The high level is the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine; the middle level is the regional and attached prosecutor's offices (31 in general); and the lower level is the district and attached prosecutor's offices (868 in general).

The General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine is entrusted with: the prosecution in court on behalf of the State; the representation of the interests of a citizen or of the State in court in cases determined by law; the supervision of the observance of laws by bodies that conduct detective and search activity, inquiry, and pre-trial investigation; and the supervision of the observance of laws in the execution of judicial decisions in criminal cases, and in the application of other measures of coercion related to the restraint of the personal liberty of citizens.

The Public Prosecutor's Office continues to exercise, in accordance with the law in force, the function of supervising the observance and application of laws and the function of preliminary investigation, until the laws regulating the activity of state bodies in regard to the control over the observance of laws are put into force, and until the system of pre-trial investigation is formed and the laws regulating its operation are put into effect.

The Attorney General of Ukraine is appointed with the consent of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and dismissed by the President of Ukraine. Citizens of Ukraine, who have higher legal education, and essential business and moral qualities, can be appointed to the posts of prosecutors and investigators.