Ebook English in Legal Context Monika Takeuchi

Spis treści ebooka English in Legal Context

Wstęp 9

1. LAW AND LEGAL PROFESSION 11
Test yourself 13
Case law in common law systems 14
Judicial precedent 15
Rule of law, judicial review, due process 17
Retroactive law 18
Access to a lawyer 19
Solicitors and barristers 20
Attorney’s duty 21
Charter of Core Principles of the European Legal Profession 22
Principle of privilege 23
No win no fee 25
Notaries 26
Jury 27

2. CIVIL LITIGATION 31
Test yourself 33
Civil Procedure 34
From the judgment in Anthony O’Shea v R (2010) 37
Brandt v American Bankers Insurance 38
Without prejudice 38
Burden of proof in a civil case 40
Supreme Court rules party must pay fees for frivolous claims alone 41
BP v Halliburton 42
From Jodie Bullock v Philip Morris USA, Inc. 44
Civil evidence case 44
Contributory negligence 47
Sean Lane et al. v Facebook, Inc. et al. 49
Product Liability in Poland 51
Guantanamo Petitions 52

3. CRIMINAL LAW 55
Test yourself 57
Contempt of court 60
Habeas corpus 62
Plea bargain 63
Criminal procedure case 64
Types of evidence 65
Self-incrimination 67
Prosecutors 68
Reversal of conviction 69
Police can collect DNA samples from arrestees 70
Extracts from the Resolution of the XVIIIth International Congress
of Penal Law 2009 72
Doli incapax 73
Necessity 74
Consent 75
Judgment and sentence for direct criminal contempt 75
Three strikes law 76
Motion to dismiss 77

4. INTERNATIONAL AND EUROPEAN UNION LAW 79
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 81
Rules of International Court of Justice 81
United Nations Charter 82
Principles of the European Union 83
Excerpts from Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights 85
From Fourth Additional Protocol to the European Convention on Extradition (2012) 87
From Agreement between the European Community and the Council of Europe 89
Cross border disputes 91
European arrest warrant 94
EU succession and wills 95
Jurisdictional immunity of the state 96
ECHR Jurisdiction 97
DNA data ruling 98
European Commission v Poland 100

5. CONTRACT LAW 103
Essential elements of a contract 105
Parts of a contract 106
The language of clauses 109
Employment contract 111
Personal property sales contract 117
Assignment 118
Stock redemption agreements 118
Reading clauses 120
Cases 122
Paul D. Ceglia v Mark Elliot Zuckerberg 127

6. PROPERTY LAW 131
Property case 133
Personal property 134
Popov v Hayashi 136
Real property 138
Real property case 140
Intellectual property 141
Intellectual property assignment case 143
Passing off 144
Breach of confidence case 145
Trade mark case 147
Cease and desist 149

7. BUSINESS LAW 151
Test yourself 153
Fraud and breach of fiduciary duty 154
From the Articles of Association 155
Certificate of Incorporation 156
Purchase and sale of private shares 158
The Code of Commercial Partnerships and Companies 159
A company in Poland 163
Procedure for bankruptcy in the UK 165
Personal bankruptcy now available in Poland 167
Financial regulation case 168
Finance case 170
The debt crisis and the legality of leaving the Eurozone 172
Promissory note 174

8. MISCELLANEOUS 179
Facebook and data protection law 181
Human rights case 182
Civil and criminal proceedings 186
Witness immunity 188
Posthumous reproduction 191
Impeachment of President Nixon 192
Violent video games 194
True or false 195
Match each extract with the type of document it comes from 196
Explain the meaning of each extract 197

9. LETTERS AND FORMS 199
Correspondence 201
Forms 212

10. LEXICAL EXERCISES 217
Word formation 219
Latin terms 221
Formal verbs 225
Prepositions 226
Phrasal verbs in legal context 228
Match the definition with the term it describes 229
Words with special meaning in Legal English 231
Complete the sentence with the correct word 234
Choose the correct option 242
Identify and correct any mistakes 253
Translate into English 256

11. GLOSSARY 259
English – Polish 261
Polish – English 265

ANSWER KEY 271

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 297

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