Task 25. Translate the given sentences

1. Failure to pay your taxes will make you liable to prosecution.

2. There have been several successful prosecutions for drug smuggling recently.

3. Mr Smith acted as counsel for the prosecution. The prosecution based their case on the evidence of two witnesses.

4. Procurator fiscal is public official whose job is to decide whether he or she suspected of crime should be prosecuted.

5. Police have instituted inquiries into the matter.

6. They warned her that if she did it again she would be sent to prison.

7. I had been warned what to expect.

8. The company has briefed a top lawyer to defend it.

9. Barrister is a lawyer who has the right to speak and argue as an advocate in higher lawcourts.

10. I think he is avoiding me.

11. Try to avoid accidents.

12. There was a breach of confidence.

13. There was a breach of diplomatic relations between two countries.

14. He was accused of conspiracy to murder.

15. There was a conspiracy to overthrow the Government.

16. One couldn’t breach a conspiracy of silence.

17. They conspired with others against the leader.

18. She undertook to discharge all the responsibilities of a Minister.

19. The accused man was found not guilty and discharged.

20. The members of the jury were discharged.

21. He is a discharged bankrupt.

22. He serves as special adviser to the President.

23. The maximum penalty for this crime is 10 years’ imprisonment.

24. He was an alleged culprit.

25. The prisoner alleges that he was at home on the night of the crime.

26. He alleged illness as the reason for his absence.

Task 26. Make the following sentences complete by translating the words and phrases in brackets:

1. In the 1980s and in the 1990s the (центральний уряд) increased its expenditures on the London police and courts as well as its grants towards the cost of local police forces.

2. The size of police forces (був збільшений) and the play of the police and courts was increased more generously than that of many other workers in the public sector.

3. But all this expenditure to promote “law and order” has not stopped the (ріст злочинності)

Task 27. (A) Form adjectives of the following verbs:

V + ed → Adj Remember:y → ie

to qualify, to allege, to oblige, to discharge, to specify, to satisfy

(B) Form nouns of the following verbs.Refer to a dictionary to see the change of consonants V + sion

V + sion → N

to decide, to divide, to provide, to include

V + ion → N

to suggest, to except

V + ment → N

to require, to indict, to enforce, to treat

(C) Use the prefix dis- to form verbs derivatives with the negative meaning or indicating reversal.

to continue, to charge, to encourage, to appear, to agree, to satisfy, to qualify, to trust, to connect, to organise

Task. 28. Translate the microtexts “Criminal Courts”, “Magistrates’ Courts” in written form.

Commentary and notes:

1. JP = Justices of the Peace – мировий суддя

2. to demand – вимагати

3. worthy citizens – гідні громадяни

4. The Lord Chancellor – Лорд-канцлер (головна судова посадова особа, спікер палати лордів, член кабінета міністрів)

5. to approve – схвалювати

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