Assignments

1. State briefly the main function of the text.

2. Explain why it is important for you to know the harmful activities.

3. Name the constitutional moments in the development of international environmental law.

4. Mention why it is important to protect the atmosphere from hazardous substances and activities.

5. Give your arguments for or against providing for liability on the actors of international environmental law.

PART VI Civil Justice

Unit 1 Civil Procedure Section 1 Civil Procedure Law

I. LEAD-IN

1. Think of what you know on the subject of this section considering the following questions and discuss them using the given prompts:

· What is a civil case? Can you think of several key distinctions between criminal and civil cases (think about: the parties, the outcomes and the procedures)? Use the words and phrases given below.

(civil suit, dispute, private individuals, duty, agreement, a breach of, government, to bring a criminal/civil action against, to violate, to commit a crime, to resolve a dispute, to punish, to determine legal rights, to award damages, a party, to direct, to perform a specific act, to refrain from, to prosecute, to sue, to be litigated against)

· The English courts are divided into courts of criminal and civil jurisdiction. Could you name the courts exercising civil jurisdiction? Is there similar situation in the USA and Ukraine?

· What legal issues are governed by Civil Procedure Rules in Ukraine? There are some prompts below, continue the list:

jurisdiction, apprehension, rights and duties of the participants of civil proceeding, legal representation of parties, charging, conduct of a trial, costs, execution of judgment

2. Match the words with the respective phonetic scripts and practice their reading:

/prə'sid ə/ proceedings

/prə'sidiŋz/ plaintiff

/in'f s/ issue

/'ædvəsəri/ adjudicator

/ri'dres/ relief

/'i∫u/ enforce

/'pleintif/ procedure

/ri'lif/ redress

/əd udi'keitə/ adversary

Read the text to search for new information on civil procedure law in Anglo-American legal system:

TEXT 1

Notes:

procedural law – процесуальне право

substantive law – матеріальне право

in personam jurisdiction – особиста підсудність

in rem jurisdiction – предметнапідсудність

full faith and credit – визнання та довіра (пункт ст.4 Розділу 1 Конституції США, що передбачає визнання законів та судових рішень одного штату в будь-якому іншому штаті)

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