Class
Talking about your profession - aspects of legal practice.
Listening skills
Legal English collocations
Homework
- Read over the audio script again and make a not of any useful collocations to learn.
- Write a paragraph describing your own work/legal background using the phrases and collocations learnt today.
- Reading - For the modern day usage of juries in civil and criminal courts in the U.K. see:http://www.inbrief.co.uk/legal-system/when-are-juries-used.htm
Corrections:
Specific
Words for Lawyers:
Barrister, Solicitor, In house Counsel, Attorney, Legal Representative, Legal Adviser/Advisor, Counsellor
Sole practitioner (solo practice), clerk, associate, trainee solicitor.
Civil Trials:
Plaintiff, defendant, burden of proof - on the balance of probabilities
Criminal Trials:
Prosecution (The Crown in the U.K.), defendant/accused, burden of proof - beyond treasonable doubt
Legal Collocations:
advise - clients, corporations, defendants
draft - contracts, decisions, law, legislation
litigate* - cases, disputes
represent - clients, corporations, defendants
practise - law
research - cases, decisions, law, legislation
* to litigate = to take legal action/to take someone to court
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