- •Рецензенти:
- •Передмова
- •Unit 1 Languages and Communication
- •Languages and Communication
- •Supplementary tasks
- •Features of the English Language
- •English Today
- •Why I Study English
- •The International Character of English
- •The Origins of the English Language
- •Grammar exercises
- •V. Complete the following sentences using nouns in the singular or in the plural.
- •VI. Translate these sentences into English.
- •Unit 2 The System of Education in Ukraine and Abroad
- •Khmelnitsky University of Management and Law
- •Supplementary tasks
- •Some University Customs
- •System of Higher Education of Ukraine
- •Areas of training
- •Management of education
- •Make use of the following phrases:
- •The Legal Profession
- •In, into, of, to, out, on, upon, with
- •Dialogue
- •The Investigator /Investigator bodies
- •Supplementary tasks
- •The Investigator /Investigator bodies
- •Dialogue
- •The Procurator
- •Unit 4 The Fundamental Law of Ukraine
- •The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (від імені українського народу) adopted the Constitution - The Fundamental Law on June 28, 1996.
- •Supplementary tasks
- •Symbols of u. K.
- •The Constitution of the United States of America
- •The British Constitution
- •Constitutional monarchs, powers, making laws, federation, Acts of Parliament, written constitution, to take advice, assembly, Magna Charta
- •Constitution - the Standard of Legitimacy
- •Crossword
- •Grammar exercises
- •I. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate preposition from the list below: for, with, on, under, up, by, before
- •II. Fill in: for or since
- •Unit 5 The State System of Ukraine
- •The State System of Ukraine
- •Supplementary tasks
- •The Court System of Ukraine
- •Systems of Government
- •Systems of Government
- •Crossword
- •Crossword solution
- •III. Put the verbs in brackets into Past Simple or Past Continuous.
- •IV. Put the verbs into Past Continuous, Past Simple, was/were going to or used to form.
- •Unit 6 The State System of the uk
- •The State System of Great Britain
- •Royal Assent
- •Making New Laws: Bills and Acts
- •Supplementary tasks
- •The Sovereign
- •The Royal Family
- •Grammar exercises
- •I. Underline the most suitable verb form in each sentence.
- •II. Underline the most suitable time expression.
- •III. Put each verb in brackets into either the Present Perfect Simple or the Present Perfect Continuous.
- •IV. Make the correct forms of the verbs.
- •V. Choose the correct past participle forms of the verbs
- •VI. Make up the sentences with the words.
- •VII. Make the correct forms of the verbs. Use Past Perfect.
- •VIII. Underline the correct word or phrase in each sentence.
- •IX. Complete each sentence so that it contains might, might not, must, mustn't, can or can't. More than one answer may be possible.
- •X. Rewrite each sentence so that it contains can, could, must, have to or should (including negative forms)
- •XI. Choose the most suitable response to each comment or question.
- •XII. Underline the most suitable phrase in each sentence
- •XIII. Rewrite each sentence so that it contains can't, might, must, should or needn't
- •Unit 7 Legal Professions in Great Britain
- •Barristers and Solicitors
- •Task 5. Complete the following expression choosing a suitable preposition; find the best way of expressing them in Ukrainian.
- •Task 10. Topics for discussion.
- •Supplementary tasks Task 1. Read the micro texts and match them to the headings.
- •General Practice.
- •Specialists
- •Employed Solicitors
- •The Role of the Law Society
- •Task 3. Read the text and give annotation of it in Ukrainian. Solicitors in Private Practice
- •Task 4. Read and translate the text. Judges
- •The History of Solicitors
- •Task 9. Read the text and make comments on it. Regulation
- •Task 10. Read the text and discuss it in the form of the dialogue, using clichés, set expressions and phrases given below. Training
- •Task 11. Read and enjoy. We, the Jury
- •Grammar exercise
- •I. Divide the verbs below into two groups: regular and irregular.
- •II. Form verbs of the following words. Give three forms of the verb.
- •III. Fill in the Past Participle of the following verb.
- •IV. Put the verbs in brackets into the Present Perfect Simple. Translate the sentences.
- •V. Match the items in column a to those in column b, then say which action happened first.
- •VI. Join the sentences using the word(s) in brackets and the Past Perfect Simple as in example.
- •VII. Put the verbs in brackets into the Future Perfect Simple. Translate the sentences.
- •VIII. Study the examples. Which sentences include the Present Perfect Continuous Tense? Translate the sentences.
- •IX. Choose the correct verb form.
- •X. Insert the Past Perfect Continuous. Translate the sentences.
- •XI. Fill in the blanks with ‘must’, ‘may’ or ‘can’.
- •Unit 8 Political System of the usa
- •The Political System of the usa
- •Supplementary tasks
- •Us Government
- •The executive branch
- •The legislative branch
- •The judicial branch
- •The Constitution as Supreme Law
- •The Basis of American Statehood.
- •Lawmaking process in the usa
- •Grammar Exercises
- •I. Use the proper form of the verb in the subordinate clause
- •II. Translate the sentences into English keeping to the rules of Sequence of Tenses.
- •III. Choose the proper tense form of the verbs (a,b,c variants). Choose the proper variants from the given multiple choice.
- •IV. Change the sentences from direct speech into the reported one.
- •V. Make the sentences complete choosing the right form of the verbs. Comment on your choice.
- •Unit 9 How a Bill Becomes a Law
- •How a Bill Becomes a Law
- •Task 5. Complete the following expression choosing a suitable preposition; find the best way of expressing them in Ukrainian.
- •Task 10. Topics for discussion.
- •Making New Laws: Bills and Acts
- •The Lawmaking in Ukraine
- •Grammar exercises
- •I. Use the verb to say or to tell.
- •II. Rewrite the sentences in Reported Speech.
- •III. Change the following sentences into Reported Speech.
- •IV. Translate into English.
- •Unit 10
- •The Court System of Ukraine
- •Task 1. Read and memorize the active vocabulary to the text
- •The Court System of Ukraine.
- •The Court System of Ukraine
- •Unit 11 Court System of the usa. Court System of England and Wales
- •Judicial System of the usa and Great Britain
- •Supplementary tasks
- •The System of Courts in the us
- •English Courts
- •Law and the Legal System
- •Grammar exercises
- •VI. Find Ukrainian equivalents of the following proverbs and translate them.
- •Unit 12. English Law
- •The History of English Law
- •Comparison of Roman and English law
- •Supplementary tasks
- •English Law
- •English Legal System
- •Common law systems
- •The Common Law and the Law of Equity Peculiarities
- •Unit 13 Roman Law
- •Roman Law History of Roman law
- •The structure, character and content of Roman law
- •Continental Systems
- •The Law of Rome
- •Supplementary tasks
- •Roman law
- •Grammar exercises
- •I. Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian paying attention to the Infinitive.
- •II. Please choose the most suitable verb form in each sentence.
- •III. Make up the sentences with the following parts.
- •IV. Make up your own sentences with the underlined models using different Infinitive forms.
- •V. Translate the following sentences into English using Infinitive and Infinitive Constructions.
- •Unit 14 Law. Types of Law in Ukraine, Great Britain, and the usa.
- •Law. Classifications of Law
- •In, into, for, to (x2), out.
- •Supplementary tasks
- •Ukrainian law is commonly divided in the following areas:
- •Task 4. Read the text and speak on the main differences between Civil and Criminal Law in the usa. Check the meaning of the words in bold. Differences between Civil and Criminal Law in the usa
- •Punishment
- •Effect of punishment
- •Burden of proof
- •Protections for criminal defendants
- •Ignorance of the law is no excuse
- •Grammar exercises
- •I. Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian paying attention to Complex Object and Complex Subject.
- •III. Make up sentences using the given tables.
- •V. Translate these sentences into English.
- •VI. Complete these sentences using the Complex Subject.
- •VII. Translate the following sentences into English paying attention to Infinitive Constructions.
- •Unit 15
- •International Entities. The uno, the icj, European Parliament. Court of Human Rights
- •International Entities and International Law
- •European Union
- •International organizations Related to the un System
- •Supplementary tasks
- •International Organizations – the un specialized Agencies
- •European Union
- •European Parliament
- •International Inter-Regional Organizations
- •United Nations Organization
- •United Nations Organization
- •General Assembly
- •Security Council
- •Secretariat
- •International Court of Justice
- •Trusteeship Council
- •Economic and Social Council
- •Grammar exercises
- •IV. Translate the sentences into Ukrainian, underline the participles, identify their functions.
- •V. Translate the sentences into English.
- •VI. Open the brackets using Participle I, II.
- •VII. Put the questions to the sentences.
- •IX. Complete the sentences and make clear that the people don't / didn't do it themselves (The first sentence is given as an example.)
- •X. Combine the sentences using participle constructions (Present Participle or Past Participle). (The first sentence is given as an example).
- •XI. Replace the Relative Clause by a Participle Construction while keeping the rest of the sentence unchanged.
- •Unit 16
- •International law
- •International law
- •Domains of International law
- •Sources of International law
- •Subjects of International law
- •Supplementary tasks
- •The History of International Law
- •International Law
- •Supranational law
- •International Court of Justice
- •The International Court of Justice
- •The icj and the Security Council
- •Preliminary objections
- •Members of the Court
- •Unit 17 Crime and Punishment
- •Crime and Punishment
- •Legal Definition of Crime and Criminal
- •Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice System
- •Unit 18 Criminal Law
- •Criminal Law
- •Supplementary tasks
- •Capital Punishment: for and against
- •Task 7. Read and translate the text. Write down all the unknown words and word combinations. Make up your own sentences with the underlined words. Objectives of Criminal Law
- •Financial Costs
- •Barbarity
- •Futility
- •Grammar exercises
- •I. Translate the following sentences, paying attention to the form of the Gerund and its function.
- •II. Fill in the blanks with prepositions where necessary.
- •III. Complete the sentence using Gerund.
- •IV. Translate these sentences into English.
- •V. Make up your own sentences with the underlined models.
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Supplementary tasks
Task 1. Read and translate the text. Write down the unknown words and word expressions. Put 10-15 questions to the text.
The System of Courts in the us
The judicial branch has the responsibility of judging the constitutionality of acts of law.
According to article III of the Constitution "the judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish".
There are about 100 Federal courts throughout the country, final authority resting in the United States Supreme Court.
The U.S. Supreme Court is the highest tribunal in the United States. It includes a Chief Justice and eight associate Justices. They are all appointed by the President and approved by the Senate.
Under the Constitution the Supreme Court has original jurisdiction (i.e., it is the court in which proceedings may be brought in the first instance) in cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls and cases in which a state is a party. In all other cases coming within the judicial power of the United States, the Supreme Court's jurisdiction is only appellate, and is subject to exceptions and regulations by the Congress.
The Supreme Court cannot alter the Constitution. The Court's function is to interpret the Constitution, not to alter or modify it.
The Supreme Court meets on the second Monday in October for a session which generally extends through to July.
The Supreme Court is made up of lawyers who had long and successful experience before they were appointed to the Court. Not all were justices or lawyers in private practice. A Supreme Court Justice may have been a senator, an Attorney General, a teacher in a law school, or even the administrator of an agency that acts like a court. The typical justice was probably appointed at about the age of fifty, and will live from twenty to forty years on the court. He is therefore likely to be somewhat elderly, and also to have lived in close contact with the political world of the previous generation.
Besides the U.S. Supreme Court there are various other Federal courts, including the district courts and (circuit) courts of appeals.
The Federal courts and the regulating agencies that act somewhat like courts, apply the law to particular cases; but they do some more than that. For the words of the written law cannot be all the law. New cases arise, and the law must deal with them. Sometimes Congress passes new laws to deal with new cases.
The Courts of Appeal were organized to relieve the Supreme Court of pressure resulting from the accumulation of appellate cases. In general these courts have final jurisdiction over the great mass of litigation not involving constitutional questions. For example, parties from different states have their case heard in a high Federal Court without going to the Supreme Court.
A United States Court of Appeals generally comprises three judges. (The Chief Justice and associate justices of the Supreme Court are authorized to assign additional circuit court judges to such courts as may need them.)
A Court of Appeals accepts the facts sent up to it by the lower courts, and therefore does not need a jury. Its work is to decide on disputed questions of law. As a rule a Court of Appeals sits with three judges together on the bench. This court's principal duty is to protect the Supreme Court from routine cases of no political importance. Its decisions may be so clear and well grounded that the Supreme Court will refuse to go into the question further, in which case the Court of Appeals has stated the supreme law of the land, at least for the exact circumstances of that case.
The inferior courts in the federal system have somewhat less political importance, since their principal duty is to settle routine cases where no constitutional question is at stake. At the ground level are the District Courts with about two hundred district judges scattered over the United States. These courts handle both civil and criminal cases that come under the jurisdiction of the Federal laws. By the Constitution they are required to give a jury trial in all except civil cases involving less than twenty dollars.
The District Courts have original jurisdiction in nearly all cases. That is, they collect the facts. The district court is the only Federal court where trials are held, juries are used, and witnesses are called. Criminal cases are tried by a judge sitting with a jury whose duty is to hear the evidence, the speeches of prosecuting and defending counsel, the remarks of the judge and reach a unanimous decision as to whether the accused is guilty or not of the crime he is charged with (of the crime charged to him). (Under the common law, a trial by jury must consist of twelve persons and their decision must be unanimous. The national government and many states authorize trial by less than twelve in certain cases and a decision by less than a unanimous vote. Generally the jury is to judge of the facts, though some states permit the jury to determine the law and the punishment as well as the facts.)
Each state has at least one district court; a few have as many as four. District courts are also found in Washington, D.C., and the territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and Panama Canal Zone. Each court has from one to twenty four judges, depending on the volume of business, but each judge holds court separately. Certain cases are heard by a three-judge panel. All judges are appointed for life terms by the President with the Senate's consent except those serving in territorial courts that have eight years' term.
The bulk of judicial work in Federal courts is conducted by the district courts. About 100,000 cases a year are tried, mostly civil cases involving such matters as admiralty law, bankruptcy proceedings, civil rights, and postal laws.
The parties may appeal the decision either on the ground that the court made an error in concluding the trial, or on the ground that the law is unconstitutional. The appeals go up to the middle layer or Federal courts, the (Circuit) Courts of Appeals.
Outside the three-layer federal court system there are a number of special courts, such as the Court of Claims, the Tax Court, and the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals. The special courts have been established to handle cases that are difficult for a judge to understand unless he devoted his whole time to this one type of problem. The special courts are on a borderline between strictly "judicial" courts and the administrative agencies with practically judicial powers, through which the government regulates certain kinds of business.
In most of the states the lowest courts are the magistrates or police courts, where the judge or magistrate (the justice of the peace) can send a drunk to jail for thirty days, or fine a motorist for speeding, without the aid of jury. Some of the states have special traffic courts, probate courts or other special courts among their courts of small claims. The magistrate (the judge of the lowest court) may also have authority to receive a man accused of murder and decide whether to hold him for trial in a higher court.
Task 2. Read, translate the words into Ukrainian, make up sentences with them.
judiciary litigation probate
judicial jury/juror attorney
justice inferior biased
chief justice alter offence / offender
jurisdiction prosecuting responsibility
appellate prosecutor ambassador
circuit magistrate circumstances
Task 3. Explain the meaning of the word combinations.
1. to judge the constitutionality of an act;
2. to alter the Constitution;
3. new cases arise;
4. a great mass of litigation;
5. to accept the facts sent up by the lower courts;
6. to decide on disputed questions of law;
7. to protect the Supreme Court from routine cases;
8. to settle routine cases;
9. where no constitutional question is at stake;
10. to handle both civil and criminal cases;
11. the bulk of individual work;
12. to hold somebody for trial in a higher court.
Task 4. Read, translate and discuss the text with your partner.