22. Do some library research and write an essay of 350-400 words on one of the given topics:

1. The rights of arrested people in the UK.

2. Death penalty: should it be returned in the UK?

3. Is a prison a correctional institution or a ‘school for crime’?

Part III. Courts and Trials in Ukraine topical vocabulary

1. Courts: the Courts of General Jurisdiction, the General Court of Competence,raion courts (city and district), oblast courts, the Supreme Court, a judicial tribunal, cassation court.

The Courts of Specialization, arbitration courts, a court of contracts, oblast arbitration court, municipal courts (city and raion), the High Court of Arbitration.

The Constitutional Court, judicial collegiums.

2. Cases: civil, administrative and criminal cases.

3. Offences: major crimes, inter-confessional religious disagreements, unruly behavior, prostitution, public drunkenness, minor hooliganism, counterfeiting, barratry, computer crime, trespass / trespassing.

4. Participants of the legal procedure: 1) parties to a lawsuit: legal entity/person, physical person,to have the option of having defense counsel (about a defendant), to be assigned defense counsel (about a defendant); the Procurator General;the (mandatory) defense counsel, on behalf of the defendant, a lawyer; the appealing party; the winning party; 2) a three judge tribunal and two people’s assessors, the chairman of the Supreme Court / the Constitutional Court, a deputy chairman, to beresponsible for one’s own docket (about a judge), to take the oath of office (about a judge); 3) a surprise / hostile / swift witness.

5. Legal procedure: to handle criminal, civil and administrative matters, to handle the brunt of civil and criminal complaints,a jury trial,to preside over the trial, to render judgment / decision, to accept guilty pleas by the defendant, to accept plea bargains, to plead guilty to lessen offenses, to review the cases handed up from the collegium, to re-investigate the case, to level criminal charges at a defendant, to be tried by the oblast court,to settleissues out of court,the outcome of a case, to file appeals on judgment rendered by the raion courts to the oblast court, to return the case for retrial, to hear criminal complaints of the first instance,to settle the matter,to accept plea bargains,to review procedural and legal matters / applications, to consider a change in the appeals process away from the system of cassation,to draw up a report (on),to remove monies / valuables / clothing items, to withdraw things, to rule on disputes, submissions and petitions, to accept suits.

6. Penalties or sentences: to get lenient sentences, a sentence of 10 years or more, to abandon the verdict of the lower court, to uphold / change the verdict, to hand out a harsher ruling, to dole out punishment, to uphold the remedy, to hand down the decision.

7. Court structure: civil, criminal and military collegiums, judicial collegiums; the Supreme Court Plenary Assembly, the Procurator General’s Office, an oblast court oversight review board; the presidium of the High Court of Arbitration.