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A Grammar of English Practice
Book for Law Students
ЕXERCISES
6. The bank has no right to disclose details of my account to the
tax office.
7. I believe that they are manipulating the accounts to make the
company look more profitable.
8. To get around an apparently unfavourable case, there are a
number of tools and techniques available to the lawyer.
9. We believe the Interpol Pollution Working Group to be an ac-
tive forum where criminal investigators from around the globe meet to
discuss issues of importance to Interpol’s member states.
10. To repair the damage
done in cross-examination, the side
which called the witness may re-examine him or her.
11. To initiate legal proceedings under state arbitrary court pro-
cedure, the claimant files a written and signed statement of claim, just
as he would do in a court of common jurisdiction case.
12. In proceedings, judges have the duty to protect the rights
and freedoms of all persons.
13. The forensic science is considered to play an increasingly
important part in the investigation of serious crimes.
14. A barrister is required to have
an accepted educational
standard and to have become a member of the Inns of Court.
15. Lawyers try to explain exactly why a judicial decision has
been made, even when the decision appears to be obvious common
sense.
16. A company may sell shares to members of the public who
are said to have invested in that company.
17. As a first step it is customary for the solicitor to try to settle
a dispute without litigation.
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1. To review cases appealed from trial courts to determine if
the law was correctly interpreted and applied
is the main job of courts
of appeal.
2. This felony is unlikely to be considered by the district court
next week.
3. Both the prosecution and defence used all the evidence to
convince the jury.
4. Trial courts are known to bear the main burden in the admin-
istration of justice.
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5. An accused to be tried is brought into court, told about the
nature of the charge against him and asked to plead.
6. The Supreme Court of the USA is
known to act as a court of
appeal and the court of last resort.
7. To plead the case of the accused perfectly the attorney for
the defence must examine his witnesses and cross-examine the wit-
nesses for the prosecution.
8. To consider the verdict the jury retires to the jury room. In
criminal cases the verdict is known to be unanimous.
9. To deal with offences committed by juveniles magistrates’
courts sit as youth courts.
10. Civil law is known to be concerned with rights and duties of
individuals.
11. The man to be arrested is accused of having committed a
burglary.
12. Legal issues to be considered by the Supreme Court of the
USA
are concerned with religion, privacy rights, and race and sex dis-
crimination.
13. The public expected the jury to find the accused guilty of
committing the burglary.
14. The judge considers the lawyer’s statement to be very im-
portant for the trial.
15. The sentence to be imposed on the convict should be just
and reasonable.
16. Testimony is known to be statements made by a witness
under oath in legal proceedings.
17. To examine cases of violent, unnatural or sudden death
Crown Courts sit as coroners’ courts.
18. The public seemed to be outraged at the sentence passed
by the judge.
19. The police inspector believed the juvenile to have commit-
ted an act of theft.
20. The President of the United States has the right to veto a
bill.
21. Magistrates’ courts are known
to try criminal cases sum-
marily.
22. One of the functions of a solicitor is to give legal advice on
a wide variety of issues.