Commercial courts

Choose the correct answer.

Exercise 21

Exercise 20

Exercise 19

Exercise 18

Find Participle I and Participle II in the text. Translate sentences with them.

Find in the text all the derivatives of the words below and translate them into Russian:

to comply, to relate, to supervise, high, region, official.

Find a word or a phrase in the text which is similar in the meaning to the following:

main, subjects, judicial body, to try (cases), to stipulate, to state (officially), to explain

Find a word or a phrase in the text which is opposite in the meaning to the following:

contradiction, valid, informally, lower court, inessential

1. What is the main idea of the text?

a. The Constitutional Court is the only body that officially interprets the Constitution.

b. The structure of the courts of general jurisdiction is provided by the Law on Court Organisation of 1996.

c. The court system of the Russian Federation consists of the three independent groups of courts.

d. The highest level of commercial court is the Supreme Commercial Court of the Russian Federation.

2. Which statement corresponds to the text?

a. At present, there are 20 Federal Territorial Commercial Courts.

b. The military courts are included into the system of courts of general jurisdiction.

c. The main function of the RF Constitutional Court is to make sure that laws and legal acts comply with the constitution.

d. The Supreme Commercial Court is located in Moscow.

Exercise 22

a) Look at the diagram and describe the system of commercial courts. For more information about the courts, go to http://www.arbitr.ru/eng/.

Use the words:

to consist of; to handle cases (appeals); court of first instance; appellate courts; to review; an instance of cassation; lower courts; by way of supervision

the Supreme Commercial Court of the Russian Federation

(the Plenum, the Presidium, the Department of Civil Cases, and the Department of Administrative Cases)

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Federal Territorial Commercial Courts (10)

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appellate commercial courts (20)

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commercial courts of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation (81)

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specialised commercial courts (e.g. courts for intellectual property since June 2013)

Exercise 23

Make a diagram to describe the work of the Constitutional court. Read the text below. For additional information go to http://www.ksrf.ru/en/Info/Pages/default.aspx

Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation is a judicial body of constitutional review. The rules of the operation of the Constitutional Court are determined by the Constitution of the Russian Federation and the Federal Constitutional Law on the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation.

The Constitutional Court consists of 19 judges. They are appointed by the Federation Council upon nomination by the President of the Russian Federation. The court is presided by the President and two Vice-presidents. The Constitutional Court performs its functions if no less than three quarters of the total number of Judges are in office.

The proceeding before the constitutional court can be initiated by the president, parliament or a group of members of parliament comprising a fifth of all members of the State Duma or the Council of the Federation, the Government, the Supreme Court, the Supreme Commercial Court, legislative and executive bodies of the Subjects of the Federation.

Decisions of the Constitutional Court are obligatory throughout the territory of the Russian Federation for all representative, executive and judicial bodies of state power, local self-government, enterprises, organizations, public officials, citizens and their associations.

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