- •Приволжский филиал
- •«Российская академия правосудия»
- •Оглавление
- •We Belong to the Family 9
- •Jurisdiction of the Federal Subjects 84 Federal Subjects of the Russian Federation
- •Identifying self and others
- •We belong to the family
- •What kind of place do you live in?
- •Cramming for success: study and academic work
- •Study and Exams
- •The Writing Process and Evaluation
- •Aspects of Higher Academic Study
- •Legal eagles
- •Where Legals Dare
- •4. Give English equivalents for…
- •My opposite number
- •What do you do? Where do you work? What do you do there?
- •Text One: Daily Work Routines
- •Text Two: during the day (Different Work-Patterns)
- •Other types of policing
- •Us attorneys
- •Security work
- •The purpose of state punishment
- •Robbery
- •Thieves Steal Vanderfill Jewels
- •Types of Theft.
- •Joyriding and car jacking
- •Sorting out crimes.
- •The smuggler
- •Making a getaway
- •Foiling robberies
- •Successful or unsuccessful?
- •Witnesses and their testimony appear in court, witness, call a witness, grass, grass on someone, supergrass, incriminate, give evidence, give testimony, testify
- •Types of Witness
- •Requests with imperatives and modals
- •Shootings, stabbings, murder
- •Packing a Piece
- •Grammar material: Future Indefinite Tense
- •Awaiting a trial
- •The Survey of Crimes
- •General Terminology
- •The infinitive after nouns
- •The indictment and the charges
- •Types of crimes.
- •Conviction
- •Lawyers Uncover Big Divide in Nation’s Jail Terms
- •Prosecution and defense
- •1. Answer the questions?
- •Guilty or not guilty
- •Reaching a verdict jury, deliberate, juror, reach/deliver a verdict, unanimous, majority verdict
- •Acquittal
- •Terms of acquittal
- •Imelda Marcos Acquitted
- •Appeals
- •Tv Raid Copycat
- •Capital punishment
- •Hanging Vote
- •2. Choose the correct verbs to fill the gaps.
- •Corporate conflict
- •Limp Handshake
- •Beauty Who Ran up a Beastly Debt: Nui Onoue
- •Equality and the law
- •Due process
- •An outline of lawmaking process
- •United States
- •The constitution and the bill of rights
- •The constitution of the russian federation
- •Judicial system of the russian federation General Provisions
- •The Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
- •The State Duma
- •The Federation Council
- •Legislative Process
- •The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation
- •The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation
- •The Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation
- •Office of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation
- •Federal Jurisdiction and Jurisdiction of the Federal Subjects of the Russian Federation Jurisdiction
- •Federal Jurisdiction
- •Joint Jurisdiction
- •Jurisdiction of the Federal Subjects
- •Federal Subjects of the Russian Federation State, Legislative and Executive Authorities
- •Internet and e-mail
- •The numerals Cardinal Numerals
- •Ordinal Numerals
- •Fractional Numbers
- •Список используемой литературы
- •Ватлецов Сергей Германович the language of law Учебно-методическое пособие
Legal eagles
lawyers, magistrates, solicitors, barristers, judges, coroners, jury, attorneys
1. Read the text, mind the vocabulary.
A lawyer is someone qualified to advise or act in legal cases.
Legal eagle is a slightly humorous expression meaning a lawyer, especially a clever one.
Courts are presided over by judges or, in lower English courts, by magistrates.
In the English system, solicitors represent people and prepare their cases before they reach court; barristers present and argue the cases in court. Solicitors do not represent people in court except magistrate’s courts.
There are a few hundred judges, trained as barristers, who preside in more serious cases. There is no separate training for judges.
Coroners have medical or legal training (or both), and inquire violent or unnatural deaths.
A jury consists of twelve people ("jurors"), who are ordinary people chosen at random from the Electoral Register (the list of people who can vote in elections). The jury listens to the evidence given in court in certain criminal cases and decides whether the defendant is guilty or innocent. If the person is found guilty, the presiding judge passes the punishment. Juries are rarely used in civil cases.
In the American system, attorneys, familiar from a thousand TV and real-life court-room dramas, represent people, prepare cases and present and argue them in court.
Vocabulary notes: lawyer юрист, адвокат, консультант по вопросам права; qualified имеющий квалификацию; advise советовать; act in legal cases выступать в судах; preside the court председательствовать на суде; prepare cases готовить дела; present a case обсуждать дело; argue a case выступать в прениях сторон; judge судья; violent/unnatural death насильственная/неестественная смерть; jury присяжные; Electoral Register список избирателей; evidence показание; criminal case уголовное дело; defendant обвиняемый; guilty виновный; innocent невиновный; pass the punishment объявить наказание; civil case гражданское дело; court-room drama драма, разворачиваемая в зале суда.
2. What did you learn about a) magistrates, b) solicitors, c) barristers, coroners, d) jury, attorneys?
3. Read the following text.
Where Legals Dare
Vocabulary notes: Where Legals Dare «Юристы принимают вызов», LA Лос-Анджелес, courtroom зал судебного заседания, action-packed захватывающий, to be spent проводятся, will завещание, juicy murder изощренное убийство, Bar Council совет барристеров, quick on feet проворный, cream of students лучшие студенты, apply использовать, scores of people много людей, seduced by exciting plots увлеченные захватывающими сюжетами, The Law Society коллегия адвокатов, all-rounder специалист-универсал, litigation судебный процесс, Crown Court Королевский суд.
In the TV series LA Law, courtroom drama is all in a day’s work. The real in England is slightly different. Barristers spend many hours in court, but few cases are action-packed. And a solicitor’s day is more likely to be spent reading out a will than solving a juicy murder.
It’s a fact lost on scores of people who, seduced by LA Law’s exciting plots, write into The Law Society’s careers officer Jenny Goddard. ‘Things are very different here,’ says Jenny. ‘A lot of people, though, do see the Crown Court as very exciting. It’s hard to generalize because there are so many different branches of the profession, from personal legal advise to selling your house.’
The main difference between British and American lawyers is that the US legal eagles are all-rounders who prepare and present cases. Here, solicitors do the litigation (prepare the case) and barristers do the advocacy (present the case) in Crown Court and upwards.
But spokesman for the Bar Council Graham McMillan believes a life in law can be very glamorous. ‘In higher courts you can get a lot of courtroom dramas, and barristers have to be very quick on their feet’…
Solicitors do, however, present cases in magistrate’s courts. Getting into the profession is not easy. There are only 70,000 solicitors in Britain, and 7,000 barristers – just over 1,000 of whom are women.
Both cases take the same initial route – and only the cream of students need apply.