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7. Translate sentences into Russian:

1. Значение юридической этики состоит в том, что она придает нравственный характер деятельности по осуществлению правосудия, выполнению прокурорских функций, следственной работе, а также и другим видам деятельности, осуществляемой юристами-профессионалами.

2. Юридическая этика способствует правильному формированию сознания, взглядов работников юридической профессии, ориентируя их на неукоснительное соблюдение нравственных норм, обеспечение подлинной справедливости, защиту прав, свобод, чести и достоинства людей, охрану собственной чести и репутации.

3. Этика — философское учение, предметом которого является мораль, а центральной проблемой – Добро и Зло.

4. Однако общественное мнение далеко не всегда справедливо и совсем не служит гарантом нравственности.

5. Моральные нормы — конкретные правила поведения, определяющие, как человек должен вести себя по отношению к обществу, другим людям, самому себе.

6. Мораль – это индивидуальные и общественные формы человеческих отношений, основанные на различении добра и зла.

7. Профессиональная этика должна быть неотъемлемой составной частью подготовки каждого специалиста.

8. Закон по-разному может быть использован: это относится не к закону, а к юристу, который по-своему его толкует и применяет.

8. Make up a summary of the text (in English). Text 2

Read the text and find answers to the questions:

1. What kind of relationship do forensic scientists and lawyers have?

2. What is the reason for it?

3. What does adversarial system depend on?

4. What are scientists dependent upon?

5. Do scientists and lawyers operate with the facts in the same way?

6. How can they deal with data?

7. Do they speak different languages?

Lawyers and scientists

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points,

by passion or inter­est, under temptation to it.

John Locke (1632-1704)

Lawyers and forensic scientists enjoy a close, yet often uneasy, relationship. Forensic scien­tists must not forget that lawyers have moral and legal obligations that often generate con­flict and misunderstanding among those with scientific minds. For example, defense law­yers have an obligation to conduct a spirited defense of the accused, especially if they are guilty. Like it or not, the fundamental pur­pose of the criminal justice system is to pro­tect the rights of the accused.

Lawyers work in adversarial situations where the clear objective remains winning a favorable decision for one's client through knowledge of the law. The adversarial system depends for its success upon the vigilance of opposing counsel, who also works toward the same objective. In this sense, law is outcome based. In law, a judge or a jury determines the truth. What juries or judges say, through their verdicts, is what is so. This legal goal has nothing whatever to do with proper, logical, scientific practice.

In sharp contrast to the practice of law, science remains justification based. Reaching the truth, or as close as one can come to it, de­pends upon the available evidence combined with a reliable method and not upon the rhet­oric of persuasion. Scientists remain depend­ent upon data and present their conclusions as tentative, conditional, or probable in na­ture where appropriate. Lawyers, however, represent one of two rival positions arguing for acceptance. They may be operating with a different set of facts. The scientist may pres­ent the data, but the lawyer may argue that the data is inadmissible and prevent the data from becoming evidence. Where a scientist may see a complex issue consisting of many related parts whose interactions may be un­clear to varying degrees, a lawyer may see the issue simply as yes or no, black or white, on or off, true or false. In other cases, what the sci­entist sees as black and white data may be­come more complex in the law's view.

In this sense, at least, forensic scientists and lawyers speak different languages with different objectives, unfortunately using many of the same words. The words truth, fact, certainty, possible, and probable can mean very different things in law and in sci­ence.