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III. Agree or disagree with the statements:

  1. Every legal system needs professionals to provide legal services.

  2. The lawyers with the same qualifications and professional title may do very different kinds of work.

  3. Big firms of attorneys are in daily contact with ordinary people.

  4. The working conditions and pay among members of the legal profession vary.

  5. The image of a lawyer is someone who leads a very miserable life.

  6. Lawyers involved in human rights may even find their profession is a dangerous one.

  7. A lawyer doesn’t have to take care not to break the rules of procedure or ethics.

  8. What the client says may be passed on to someone else without his permission.

  9. It is the lawyer's job to prove guilt.

  10. A lawyer could defend his client by pointing out weaknesses in the prosecution.

IV. Answer the questions:

  1. Why are the lawyers becoming more and more specialized?

  2. Do the working conditions and pay among the lawyers vary?

  3. What is the image of a lawyer for some people?

  4. What are the principals of conversations between a lawyer and his client?

  5. Who has the right to prove guilt or innocence?

V. Match the first part of the sentence (1-5) with the second one (a-e).

1

Even if a lawyer is very competent, he must take care

a

may be doing very different kinds of work.

2

The working conditions and pay

b

to provide legal services.

3

In the United States lawyers

c

among members of the legal profession also vary greatly.

4

Even lawyers with the same qualifications and professional title

d

not to break the many rules of procedure and ethics.

5

Every legal system needs professionals

e

are becoming more and more specialized.

VI. Make up a plan of the text.

VII. Retell the text in a written form (in English or Ukrainian). Text 74. Murder

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

Abolition – заборона, capital punishment – вища міра покарання, a departure – відхід, spirit of revenge – дух помсти, in cold blood – холоднокровно, deterrent – захисний, an assassin – вбивця.

II. Listen to the text: Murder

The abolition of capital punishment in England in November 1965 was welcomed by most people with humane and progressive ideas. To them it seemed a departure from feudalism, from the cruel pre-Christian spirit of revenge: an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth

Many of these people think differently now. Three unarmed policemen have been killed in London by bandits who shot them down in cold blood. This crime has drawn attention to the fact that since the abolition of capital punishment crime - and especially murder - has been on increase throughout Britain. Today, therefore, public opinion in Britain has changed. People who before, also in Parliament, stated that capital punishment was not a deterrent to murder - for there have always been murders in all countries with or without the law of execution - now feel that killing the assassin is the lesser of two evils. Capital punishment, they think, may not be the ideal answer, but it is better than nothing, especially when, as in England, a sentence of "lifelong" imprisonment (a life sentence, as it is called) only lasts eight or nine years.

All this is very controversial. And all the arguments for and against can be refuted in practice. The problem remains - the problem of how to prevent murders. Some murders are committed by criminals evading arrest, by insane or mentally disturbed people, by cold-blooded sadists completely devoid of all human feelings. The important thing in the prevention of murder is to eliminate as far as possible the weapons and instruments, the guns and knives, with which these crimes are committed, and furthermore to stop the dangerous influence of violence in books, films, television and other mass media, from which so many criminals derive their "inspiration".

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