Unit3: BRANCHES OF LAW Section B Criminal vs. Civil Law B.1 Warm up. Match the following words with their definitions: eg.1-h a) A court order placing an offender under supervision instead of a sentence of imprisonment 2. Defendant b) A document that sets out legal rules and has been passed by the Parliament i ¢) A person against whom court proceedings are brought 4.Probation order 4) 4 person applying for relief against another person in an action, suit, 1. Prosecution 3. Conviction 5. Enactment petition, motion, summons or any other form of court proceedings rs ¢) A remedy in the form of a court order to do or not to do something eae f) An Act of Parliament, an order or any other piece of subordinate 7.*Plaintiff legislation, or any particular provision contained in any of these 8) The judgement that a person is found guilty of a crime 8. Injunction ‘h) The pursuit of legal proceedings, particularly criminal proceedings From year 2000 inthe UK plaintifhas been replaced with daimant. Plains now only used in American English B.2 Fill in the tables on the next page with the information in the bubbles: ‘Damages, injunctions, rescission*, specific performance To preserve order in the community by punishing offenders and deterring others Offences against the state ‘A prosecuton prosecutes a defendant Disputes between private individualy To remedy the wrong which has been suffered "A defendant may be convicted if he is guilty and acquitted if he is innocent Acclaimant sues a defendant ‘A defendant may be found liable or not liable ‘imprisonment, fine, probation, community service * rescission = anulare prin respingere ELP/s| i i Unita: BRANCHES OF LaW Time for fun ¢ Civil or Criminal? yy) A man ffom Charlotte, North Carolina purchased a case of rare, very expensive cigars and Insured them against. fire!) Within a month, he had smoked his ene stockpile of fabulous S Cigars. As he had yet to make a single premium payment onthe insurance Policy, the man filed 2. Gaim agains the insurance company, in which he sated that he hea et the cigars in *a man had aml fre." The insurence company refused to pay, cing the obvees nas that the man had consumed fe cigars in anormal fashion, The man sued «eed very Rather than endure a lengthy and costly appeal process, the insurance company accepted the judge's ruling and paid the man $15,000 forthe rare Cigars he had lost {i the “ites”. After the man cashed his check, however, the ineurene company had him arrested ... on 24 counts of arson! With his own insurance, Claim and testimony terms, Section C Giving Information on Courses - Role Play C.1 A Telephone Conversation Situation A visiting lecturer from Australia is coming to your law faculty to give a series of lectures and would like some information about your courses, He is calling the Faculty Office and speaks to a Student who is working there part time. Roleplay the telephone conversation after you consult Your role cara. you are the Professor, look at File 14 (atthe end af the 00k). If you are the student, look at File 1 C2 With a class mate, write an e-mail ‘message to the Australian Professor and give hhim details about your curriculum. In order to do this, translate the curriculum into English ‘and write short descriptions of the courses, using the Lancaster University prospectus as a model. ELP/a9 slr entemaae in