GPIV Legal English Lesson 9 Groups 1 and 3

3^rd May Lesson 9

Skills focus

Analyzing a set of facts and writing a letter of advice.

Areas of Law

Practice: Company Law – Corporate Governance

Case Study: Contract Law http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/55588522/Contract%20Law%20Case%20Study

Homework: Finish your letter of advice. Invent a name for your client and start it Dear Mr/Mrs/Ms + Surname and end it, Yours sincerely.
Absentees look at the client you have been assigned (see below) and prepare a letter of advice to bring to class next week :
Group 1 Gaia Stefani you are representing Gainsborough Construction
Group 3 Adriano and Giulia Z. you are representing Deep Blue Pools, Francesca S. you are representing Gainsborough Construction.

Key Vocabulary

Corporate governance

Proxy fight – target company, acquiring company

To second guess

Legal English Expressions

The law on this point

To file an action/suit … alleging

To seek to set aside

On the grounds that

To be held at such time… as … not later than

At the discretion of

The provision for

The ensuing year

The law in this jurisdiction

Cases or interpretation of this law

Precludes the holding of

The statutes give wide leeway

On the part of

Gaining representation

To take into consideration

To hold that

Improperly

To violate a statute or bylaw

An obligation/duty  to act in good faith

An appellate body

(Court)step in and overturn a decision

Justify court action

To prevail
Only where/Under no circumstances /Hardly/Not only …. Will a court step in (Following these expressions we invert the subject and auxiliary as we would in a question)