Wednesday 28 October 2015

Legal English at Bennett Languages, Civitavecchia. Lesson 2

Lesson 2
Class
Talking about your profession - aspects of legal practice.
Listening skills
Legal English collocations

Homework

  1. Read over the audio script again and make a not of any useful collocations to learn.
  2. Write a paragraph describing your own work/legal background using the phrases and collocations learnt today. 
  3. 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:
Specifical

Vocabulary
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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