Topic Some Other Courts

A number of other, more specialised, courts have been set up to deal with particular areas of the law or perform special functions.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Its jurisdiction is now confined to hearing appeals from the remaining colonies, and from those former British territories which have chosen to retain it as their final appeal court. The judges of the Privy Council are predominantly the same Law Lords.

The Employment Appeal Tribunal. It was set up following the great increase in recent years of disputes arising from employment, especially involving unfair dismissal or discrimination. The court hears appeals from industrial tribunals. Every case is heard by a High Court judge and two lay members chosen for their knowledge and experience of industrial relations: trade union officials, for instance, and representatives of employers’ organisations.

The Restrictive Practices Court. It has various powers to stop or control restrictive or monopolistic practices in the supply of goods and services – for example, agreements between ostensibly competitive companies to charge a minimum price for their products, against the interests of the consumer.

Coroners’ Courts. Coroners, who must be qualified lawyers or doctors, have a duty to hold public inquests into any violent, unnatural or suspicious death, or in the case of a person dying suddenly without any obvious cause, or in prison or in police custody. Coroners inquests are not trials, but witnesses are called, and there is often a jury who decide on the manner of death, or return an open verdict.

Tribunals. The sixty or so tribunals cover a wide range of subjects, from tax to mental health. Some of the most important and widely used are the industrial tribunals, where workers can claim compensation for unfair dismissal; the supplementary benefit appeals tribunal; rent tribunal; and the immigration appeals tribunal.

Topic Two “Foreign” Courts

Two courts outside Britain’s boundaries have recently come to play a big part in her affairs. The two deal with completely different issues, and belong to different regional institutions.

The European Court it is the court of the European Union. Its decisions on the interpretation of European law are the last word in that area of the law – superior even o the pronouncements of the House of Lords. It is rulings to date have mainly concerned issues important to the business world, but it has also given decisions of great importance to individuals.

The European Court of Human Rights. It deals with issues of human rights. It gives rulings on whether particular conduct by a government or one of its organs violates the European Convention of Human Rights. It has made a number of rulings against the British Government on the rights of mental patients, prisoners, immigrants, etc. The court cannot be approached directly: all cases have to go first to the European Commission of Human Rights.

Topic The profession of a lawyer. My preferences (Profession of an investigator)

The profession of a lawyer is one of the most popular present day profession of our country. The profession of a lawyer is very interesting and diverse.

Our country is building rule-of-law state, and lawyers should play a very important role in this process. The profession of a lawyer is quite necessary regulating social relations in the state. Moreover, under our trade treatment clash of interests is inevitable and this is sphere of lawyers work.

To be a good specialist a lawyer should know many laws and their proper application. Then they will perform their duties well. Any lawyer is expected to know human psychology as throughout his career a lawyer with meet different people any olds and nations. A lawyer has to deal with a variety of people and situations.

Lawyer have agreed upon six basics elements of professionalism. They are: ethics, competence combined with independence, professional wisdom and continuing learning, civility and obligations to the justice system.

A lawyer may choose his place of work and occupation of a number of possible ones. The choice is very wide. The lawyers can work at the Bar, in the organs of the Prosecutor’s Office, in different courts, in organs of militia, as well as different firms, companies, banks, etc.

He can work as a judge at the law court. He is required to administer justice properly, that is why he should be able to conduct a trial, to sum up evidence and to pass a just sentence.

A lawyer can be a prosecutor or a prosecutor’s assistant at the Prosecutor’s Office. He should supervise the correct application and observance of the law. His duty is to examine the sentences passed by the courts as to their lawfulness. Besides, he should be able to prosecute the accused that is to prove his guilt.

He can work as an advocate (counsel of the defence) at the Bar and his duty is to defend the accused that is to prove his innocence by evidence if it is possible.

He can also be a notary at the notary office and should be able to perform notary actions such as checking the legality of all the documents before notarising them; giving legal help to the applicants in settling legal documents of various kinds and so on.

A lawyers can be an arbitrator at the arbitration. Then he should be able to settle disputes between legal persons.

As for me, I would like to work as an investigator at the Prosecutor’s Office.

The investigator are investigate and solve crimes. This is the most creative work. He work with very different peoples. This work combines logics and exactness of the mathematician, fantasy of the artist and professional wisdom of lawyer. Main points of this work are collection and registration evidences, investigates and solves crimes and others.