- •Міністерство освіти і науки україни
- •Legal texts for reading the legal profession
- •Exercises
- •Types of Legal Professions: Great Britain
- •Solicitors
- •Barristers
- •Judges in Great Britain
- •Us Attorneys
- •How does someone become a lawyer?
- •An outline of lawmaking process in great britain and the usa
- •Britain
- •United States
- •The court system of england and wales
- •The united states of america the constitution
- •The Constitution and the Bill of Rights
- •The system of government The American System of Government
- •Congress
- •The President and Federal Departments
- •The Federal Judiciary
- •The system of checks and balances
- •Great britain the system of government
- •The crown
- •Judiciary
- •Discussion topics for credit
- •Discussion topics for exam
- •Individual task for credit
- •Our American Government
- •Vocabulary
- •Individual task for exam
- •I. Basic concepts of American Jurisprudence
- •Law study in the u.S.A. Around the Law School (6-8)
- •II. Government in Britain
- •Grammar reference and exercises
- •1. Pronouns
- •2. Nouns
- •3. Adjectives (Comparisons)
- •Irregular forms:
- •Comparative constructions:
- •4. Present Simple
- •Romeo and juliet
- •5. Present Continuous
- •6. Present Simple vs Continuous
- •7. Future Simple and Present tenses with the future meaning
- •Finish, complain, fall off, be, miss, die, rain, drive, work, fail
- •The future of our solar system
- •8. Present Perfect
- •9. Past simple
- •Louis Pasteur 1822-1895
- •10. Past Simple and Present Perfect
- •11. Present Perfect Continuous
- •12. Past Continuous
- •Alexander the Great
- •The Vikings in America
- •Charles-Marie de la Condamine
- •13. Past Perfect
- •14. Past Perfect Continuous
- •15 Revision
- •Reported Speech
- •1. “Say” and “tell”
- •2. Reported statements
- •3. Reported Questions
- •4. Reported commands / requests / suggestions
- •5. Revision
- •Passive Voice
- •1. Formation and uses
- •Ship, pick, drink, take, dry, roast, prepare, sell, sort, plant Growing and preparing coffee.
- •Grown, cut, taught, locked, sent, explained, killed, given, built, driven
- •Cause, damage, hold, include, invite, make, overtake, show, translate, write
- •2. Changing from active into passive
- •3. Revision
- •Active Voice: Formation
- •Irregular Verbs
Exercises
Read the text again to find out if the following statements are true or false.
Barristers are paid directly by clients.
Solicitors can present cases in lower courts.
The number of British solicitors is growing.
The Justice Department of the USA is responsible for the effective work of the police.
US attorneys are very influential people.
2. According to the text which of the following points completes the sentence best?
1. In Japan a lawyer must………………….
a) take lots of examinations;
take one final examination;
choose the examination according to his future law career
In England the decision of a law student is between becoming………………..
a barrister or a solicitor
a barrister or a judge;
a solicitor or a prosecutor
The solicitor usually deals with a……………………
petty crimes and matrimonial matters;
arguing cases;
presenting cases in any court
Barristers specialize in………………
arguing cases in front of a judge and representation in Magistrates’ Courts;
advocacy;
employing solicitors
US attorneys are……………..
the President’s assistants;
appointed by the President;
elected by people or by the members of the Senate
3. Match the following statements with a particular (British or American) law system.
Next week Mr. Richardson presents our case in the County Court.
Everybody is shocked: the Senate hasn’t approved the President’s decision to appoint Mr. John Brian Star the fifteenth federal district’s attorney.
This chamber is situated in 45 Oxford Street.
The Inns of Court are as respectable as exclusive clubs.
4. Find in the text words and phrases with the following meanings
connected with the law, required by the law;
gathering of persons for the purpose of hearing a speaker, etc.;
crimes which are not serious;
an English lawyer who specialize in arguing cases and representation in any court;
legal ending of a marriage;
an English lawyer who gives advice to clients, investigates, prepares documents;
support of a client in a Court;
the carrying out a piece of work;
power or right to give orders;
10) US lawyers having the right to prosecute
Types of Legal Professions: Great Britain
Read this classification.
Solicitors
There are about 50,000 solicitors, a number which is rapidly increasing, and they make up by far the largest branch of the legal profession in England and Wales. Solicitors are important figures in the British legal system. They are found in every town, where they deal with all the day-today work of preparing legal documents for buying and selling houses, making wills, etc. Solicitors also work on court cases for their clients, prepare cases for barristers to present in the higher courts, and may represent their client in a Magistrates' court. It is their job to advise you on legal matters of all kinds. If you get into trouble with the police you will probably ask a solicitor to help prepare your defence and, if the offence is to be heard in a Magistrates' Court, you can ask a solicitor to appear for you and argue your case. If the case goes to a higher Court, the solicitor still advises you, but you must get a barrister to appear for you.