Family Law

Family law is a body of law regulating family relationships, including marriage and divorce, the treatment of children, and economic issues.

It is also concerned with such subjects as adoption, amendment, separation, paternity, custody, support and child care.

Family law is divided into public and private law cases. Public law cases involve local government and other public authorities and include matters such as care of children, supervision and emergency protection orders. Private law cases involve divorce proceedings and access to children by the parents concerned.

Law of Torts

Torts include wrongs such as negligence, defamation, malicious prosecution and nuisance.

Labour law

Labour law is the varied body of law applied to such matters as: employment, remuneration, conditions of work, trade unions, and industrial relations. The term includes social security and disability insurance as well.

The basic subject mater of labour law can be considered under nine broad heads: employment: individual employment relationships; wages and remuneration; conditions of work; healthy, safety, and welfare; social security; trade unions and industrial relations; the administration of Labour Law.

Maritime or Admiralty law

Maritime or Admiralty law is the body of legal rules that governs ships and shipping.

Administrative law

Administrative law is the legislative requirements, typically for businesses, issued by government agencies in published regulations.

Task 3. Answer the following questions:

1. How do you understand the term” law”?

2. What functions does law perform?

3. What does substantive law set out?

4. What kind of rules does Procedural law establish?

5. What distinction exists between criminal law and civil law?

6. What breaches does Criminal law define?

7. What duties are established by civil law?

8. What subdivisions of civil law are you familiar with?

9. What does constitutional law deal with?

10. What types of constitutions do you know?

11. What relations does family law regulate?

12. What notions does Law of Torts include?

13. What matters does the term Labour law include?

14. What questions does the Admiralty law deal with?

Task 4. Pick out from the text all the word combinations with the following words and give their Ukrainian equivalents. Make up your own sentences with them

Law, system, to regulate

Task 5. Match the following words and word combinations with their definitions

1. standard	a) the damaging of someone's good reputation by saying something bad and untrue about them
2. substantive law	b) money paid for work or a service
3. Procedural law	c) an accepted or approved example of something against which others are judged or measured
4. imprisonment	d) the fact or state of being a father
5. fine	e) the protective care or guardianship of someone or something
6. governance	f) government, control, or authority
7. adoption	g) the action or fact of adopting or being adopted
8. paternity	h) the state of being imprisoned
9. custody	i) a certain amount of money exacted as a penalty
10. defamation	j) establishes the rules under which the substantive rules of law are enforced
11. remuneration	k) sets out the rights and duties governing people as they act in society

Task 6. Read and translate the text. Discuss it with the partner. Prepare a small plan for retelling