Deputy secretary

The Law Society is seeking to appoint a motivated solicitor to work in the area of law reform. Candidates should be solicitors with a minimum of 5 years' experience, should demonstrate an interest in the criminal law and legal aid. Candidates will require to service various committees.

№ 2

Temporary solicitor

Salary: £ 18.220 – 21.250

We require a qualified solicitor to work as part of a small team responsible for the full range of the Council's legal work, including conveyancing (составление нотариальных актов о передаче имущества), planning agree­ments, Sheriff Court, District Court and general advice.

You should have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and have some relevant experience.

№ 3

The Law Society of Scotland

Deputy secretary professional practice

Salary: £ 22.595 – 25.268 plus car (35 hours per week)

The Law Society is seeking to appoint a motivated and enthusiastic solicitor to answer Professional Practice correspondence and telephone enquiries (запрос) from members of the profession, to deal specifically with all Conveyancing enquiries, to service the two Conveyancing Committees.

Candidates should be solicitors with at least 3 years' experience. They should have a strong qualification in Conveyancing, and demonstrate an ability to communicate effectively.

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The court of justice of the european communities in luxembourg

The Court of Justice of the European Communities in Luxemburg is holding an open competition to recruit (m/f).

Lawyer-linguists

At the Court of Justice of the European Communities a team of lawyer-linguists is responsible for producing all the English translations for the European Court Reports and other publications of the Court of justice and for translating English a very wide range of other legal texts and documents directly related to the work of the Court.

The Court is holding an open competition to recruit lawyer-linguists to perform these challenging duties.

The attractive salary and associated benefits are commensurate with the responsibilities involved and compare favourably with those offered by other international organisations.

Candidates must: ~ be nationals of one of the Member States of the European Union; ~ subject to certain exeptions; be less than 40 years of age; ~ have a perfect command of English, a good knowledge of French and a good knowledge of at least one other official language of the European Communities; ~ be holders of a law degree awarded in Ireland of the United Kindom or be qualified as an Advocate, Barrister or Solicitor in one of those countries.

Task 2. Name some reasons why you would benefit from this occupation.

Text 2 Judge’s "respectful" plea for plainer English

A barrister is a man born with a silver spoon in his mouth in place of a tongue. Or so it would appear to Mr Justice Smith, a judge in the Commercial Court.

The learned judge has become irritated at the linguistic duplicity of councel, and the way in which they use archaic words to camouflage what is at bottom, an insult.

Writing in the current edition of the quarterly legal journal "Counsel", a learned magazine read by upper echelons of the legal profession, the judge tells about barristers who preface a statement to him with the phrase "With respect". What that really means, says the judge, is "you are wrong".

A statement prefaced with the words "With great respect" means "you are utterly wrong". And if a barrister produces the ultimate weapon of "With utmost respect" he is really saying to the court, "Send for the men in white coats".

The judge wants more plain English used in courts, and less of the legal language of the obscure past, some of which he says has been "obsolete" in ordinary speech almost since the Bible.

Words like "humbly" and "respectfully" are not only unnecessary in written legal documents, they are generally untruthful in oral argument, says the judge with utmost respect.

Judges themselves are, of course, not entirely free of guilt in the matter of exchanges which are not very understandable.

At the courtroom clock moves towards 1 p.m., counsel might say: "It might be of value to your Lordship if I were to inform you at this juncture that I have several more questions to ask to this witness which would take some little while". The judge will reply: "This seems a useful time to adjourn". What they really mean is lunch.

Task I. Answer the questions on the text.

1. What is barrister according to Mr Staughton?

2. What does the phrase "With respect" really mean?

3. What does the judge want?

4. What does the judge say about some words like "humbly" and "respectfully"?

Task II. Arrange the following sentences according to the logic of the text.

1. Judges are not entirely free of guilt in the matter of exchanges which are not clear for them.

2. Judge wants more plain English used in courts, and less of the legal language of the obscure past.

3. In a legal journal the judge writes about barristers who preface a statement with the phrase "With respect".

4. The phrase "With respect" really means "you are wrong".

5. Mr Justice Smith is a judge born with a silver spoon in his mouth in place of a tongue.

6. The judge’s words "This seems a useful to adjourn" mean "It’s time to have lunch".

SELF-STUDYING

Ex. 1. Make up compound nouns an adjectives and translate them.

A		B
1. chair 2. news 3. eye 4. lie 5. tape	1. recorder 2. witness 3. paper 4. man 5. detector	1. law 2. judge 3. work 4. moon 5. well	1. known 2. made 3. governed 4. reddened 5. faced

Ex. 2. Define the part of speech.

a) Noun b) Verb c) Adjective d) Adverb

1. assistance, 2. participate, 3. decision, 4. special, 5. action, 6. legal, 7. dangerously, 8. analyze, 9. housekeeper, 10. peacefully, 11. professional, 12. treatment, 13. testify, 14. threaten; 15. rarely, 16. law-abiding.

Ex. 3. Match the two columns.

1. He asked ... 2. I told him ... 3. She wanted to know ... 4. The English teacher said ... 5. They wrote ... 6. The detective said ... 7. The Secretary reported that ... 8. The President said ...

a) ... that this student spoke English fluently. b) ... they had received my letter. c) ... if the seminar in Criminal Law would be next Monday. d) ... who would meet her at the station. e) ... he had investigated this case a week before. f) ... that you were waiting for him so long. g) ... that the documents have been signed the day before yesterday. h) ... he attends all the lectures of this professor. i) ... that he had appointed two new judges.

Ex. 4. Choose the proper tense form.

1. We wanted to know how many cases ... by a magistrate monthly.

a. were trying; b. had been tried; c. were tried;

2. They said the conference in the Theory of State and Law ... place the following day.

a. would take; b. had taken; c. took;

3. We knew this investigator ... the scene of the crime very carefully then.

a. has examined; b. examined; c. was examined;

4. He informed he ... the job of a detective a year before.

a. performed; b. was performing; c. had performed;

5. The newspaper reported the law-breakers ... on the previous day.

a. were arrested; b. had been arrested; c. would be arrested;

6. It is known that there ... two classes of lawyers in Great Britain.

a. were; b. had been; c. are;

7. The lecturer said that quick and accurate solution of crimes ... very much on proper law enforcement training.

a. depends; b. depended; c. has depended;

8. She asked if barrister ... some educational standard.

a. had; b. had been; c. has.

Ex. 5. Choose the proper alternative in indirect speech for the following sentences in direct speech.

1. The solicitor said: "The plaintiff came to my office yesterday".

a) The solicitor said that the plaintiff came to his office the day before.

b) The solicitor said that the plaintiff had come to his office the previous day.

c) The solicitor said that the plaintiff has come to his office the previous day.

2. Helen asked her English friend: "Do you elect judges?"

a) Helen wanted to know whether they elected judges in England.

b) Helen wanted to know whether they would elect judges in England.

c) Helen wanted to know whether they had elected judges in England.

3. He answered: "The judges are appointed from the barristers".

a) He answered the judges are appointed from the barristers.

b) He answered that the judges would be appointed from the barristers. c) He answered that the judges were appointed from the barristers.

4. The detective was asked: "How long have you investigated this case?"

a) The detective was asked how long he had investigated that case.

b) The detective was asked how long he was investigating that case.

c) The detective was asked how long he has investigated that case.

5. The teacher inquired: "When will you finish your course paper, comrade cadet?"

a) The teacher inquired when the cadet finished his course paper.

b) The teacher inquired when the cadet will finish his course paper.

c)The teacher inquired when the cadet would finish his course paper.

Ex. 6. Choose the proper form of the verb in the conditional clauses.

1. If I ... you, I should choose the profession of a legal adviser.

a) am; b) had been; c) were;

2. The criminal will be brought before the court if new evidence of great importance ... .

a) is obtained; b) will be obtained; c) were obtained;

3. If he ... enough evidence, he would have solved the case.

a) had had; b) had; c) has had;

4. If Jack ... to become a capitain, he would take police sciences classes.

a) wants; b) wanted; c) had wanted;

5. If it ... a minor offence, so the defendant will pay a fine.

a) would be; b) was; c) is.

Ex. 7. Find the suitable definition to the following professional titels.

1. a barrister	a) works at the Notary Office and performs notary actions;
2. a solicitor	b) works at the state arbitration and settles the questions between commercial enterprises;
3. a prosecutor	c) works at the Bar and defends the accused and proves his innocence by the evidence;
4. a judge	d) works at the enterprise or legal advice office and gives legal advices;
5. an investigator	e) works at the advisory office and takes legal business for ordinary people;
6. a notary	f) works at the Law Court and conducts the trial, sums up the evidence and passes a just sentence;
7. a legal adviser	g) works at the Prosecutor’s Office and supervises correct application and observance of law;
8. a state arbitrator	h) works at the militia agency or at the Prosecutor’s Office and investigates and solves crimes.

Ex. 8. Fill in the blanks with the words from the box.

1. buying and selling houses 2. defend 3. legal questions 4. prosecute 5. Queen’s Counsel

6. public offices 7. advocacy 8. routine work 9. judges 10. to advise

11. interpretation of law 12. judicial 13. different 14. lawyers 15. chambers

There are two classes of ... (1) in England: barristers and solicitors. Solicitors make up the largest branch of the ... (2) profession. They can be found in every town, where they deal with all ... (3) of preparing legal documants or contracts for ... (4), making wills and so on. The main job of a solicitor is ... (5) his or her clients on ... (6). Barristers are ... (7) from solicitors. They are experts in the ... (8) and in ... (9) – the art of presenting cases in court. Barristers ... (10) or ... (11) in the higher courts. Unlike solicitors, barristers do not have ... (12) in any street. They work in (13), most of which are in London. Only barristers can become ... (14) in an English court above the magistrates’ courts. The highest level of barristers is the title of a ... (15).

LESSON 6