3.Answer the questions:

What is a conflict of interest?

When does a conflict of interest occur?

Is a conflict of interest always legal or illegal?

What does “conflict of roles” mean?

What can two different roles of a businessman provide?

What brings an internal audit to a conflict of interest?

4. Match the following words with the translation:

capacity– стимул

benefit– преданность

evidence– акция

incentive– компетенция, положение

liability– беспристрастно

to breach– отрицать

loyalty– выгода

to deny– нарушать

to own– подрывать

to impair– портить

to mitigate– владеть

improperly– не так, как нужно

impartially– ответственность

stock– основание

to undermine– смягчать

5. Translate into English

Два типа конфликта

Существуют когнитивный конфликт и конфликт интересов. Конфликт взглядов, точек зрения и знаний – это когнитивный конфликт. В таком конфликте целью каждого субъекта является убедить оппонента, доказать правильность своей точки зрения, своей позиции. Конфликт интересов можно представить как противовес конфликта когнитивного, что означает противоборство, основанное на столкновении интересов различных оппонентов (групп, индивидов, организаций).

Кто и как занимается урегулированием конфликта интересов на государственной гражданской службе?

Урегулированием конфликтов интересов на государственной гражданской службе занимаются представитель нанимателя и специально созданные для урегулирования конфликтов такого рода комиссии по соблюдению требований к служебному поведению государственных гражданских служащих и урегулированию конфликтов интересов.

В случае возникновения у государственного гражданского служащего личной заинтересованности, которая приводит или может привести к конфликту интересов, государственный гражданский служащий обязан проинформировать об этом представителя нанимателя в письменной форме.

 

Unit 8

1.Read the tongue– twisters as fast as you can

a) A mother to her son did utter

“Go, my son, and shut the shutter”

“The shutter’s shut” the son did utter

“I cannot shut it any shutter!”

b) A noisy noise annoys an oyster.

2. Read and translate the text

Conflicts of interest related to the practice of law

Judicial disqualification, also referred to as recusal, refers to the act of abstaining from participation in an official action such as a legal proceeding due to a conflict of interest of the presiding court official or administrative officer. Applicable statutes or canons of ethics may provide standards for recusal in a given proceeding or matter. Providing that the judge or presiding officer must be free from disabling conflicts of interest makes the fairness of the proceedings less likely to be questioned.

In the legal profession, the duty of loyalty owed to a client prohibits an attorney (or a law firm) from representing any other party with interests adverse to those of a current client. The few exceptions to this rule require informed written consent from all affected clients. In some circumstances, a conflict of interest can never be waived by a client. In perhaps the most common example encountered by the general public, the same firm should not represent both parties in a divorce or child custody case.

A prohibited or undisclosed representation involving a conflict of interest can subject an attorney to disciplinary hearings, the denial or disgorgement of legal fees, or in some cases (such as the failure to make mandatory disclosure), criminal proceedings. In the United States, a law firm usually cannot represent a client if its interests conflict with those of another client, even if they have separate lawyers within the firm, unless (in some jurisdictions) the lawyer is segregated from the rest of the firm for the duration of the conflict. Law firms often employ software in conjunction with their case management and accounting systems in order to meet their duties to monitor their conflict of interest exposure and to assist in obtaining waivers.