Exercise 11

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 589.

Exercise 10

Open the brackets and put the verb into the correct present tense form.

1. What you (to do)________________ at such a late hour? You (to finish) ___________________ your research on the lawsuit? – No, I (to finish) _________________________ it already. I (to make) ______________ some important notes. – When you (to plan) _________________ to complete the work. – I (not to know) ___________________yet.

2. The statute (to be) _________ new. It (not to pertain)_______________ to our case.

3. Recent national legislation (to require) ______________ a lot of safety testing.

4. Ann (to find) ___________________ any regulations in the state laws? – No, but she (to find) _______________ some in the city laws.

5. The court rules (to have) _________________ information about when to an appeal? – Yes, the defendants usually (to do) __________ it within a year of a decision.

6. At the moment we (to discuss) _________________ some procedures that we need to follow in court.

7. There (to be) ___________ several attorneys working at the firm.

8. What (to be) _____________ the reason why the company (to lose) ________________the lawsuit?

9. What amount of money she (to sue) _________________ the plant for?

10. I (to think) ___________________ of representing Car Masters.

11. They (to work) _________________ on the Great Cars Incorporated lawsuit.

12. What you just (to say) ________________________ (to sound) ________________ encouraging.

13. What he (to read) ______________________? – He (to look up) _______________________ what a legal term (to mean) ________________.

14. Why it (to be) ________________________ important to know how libraries (to organize) _________________ legal resources?

15. Primary materials (to contain) _____________ laws relevant to cases.

16. I (to look for) _________________ the case annotation in the journal.

17. The judge (not to dismiss) __________________the case against a young defendant.

Write down what you have (have not) done this week/this month/this year.

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2. _________________________________________________________

3. _________________________________________________________

4. _________________________________________________________

5. _________________________________________________________

6. _________________________________________________________

7. _________________________________________________________

Test yourself!

I. Fill in the gaps with the terms:

1) ____________ is a law or set of laws that is formally decided and put in force by a government.

2) ____________________ is a law that has been written down formally.

3) ____________________ is a set of steps you must follow in order to do something correctly.

4) ____________________is a decision in a past law case.

5) If something is ___________________, it is connected with what is happening.

6) __________________ are the regulations that people must follow in court.

II. Insert the suitable prepositions where necessary:

1) This statute may not pertain _________ our case.

2) The plaintiff cannot sue ______________ a constitutional law for several weeks.

3) There are no precedents that we can refer _________.

4) The court date is scheduled ____________ the 1^st of November.

5) The appeal must be filed _______________ a year of a decision.

6) They made several changes __________ the law that relate _________ government power.

7) The council announced new rules decided by the government _________ environmental issues.

8) All dogs in the park must be __________ a leash.

9) He has been working ________ this company for 5 years.

10) They are working ________ the Great Cars Incorporated lawsuit now.

11) She is suing the company ________ 1 million rubles.

III. Translate the sentences from Russian into English:

1) Госпожа Смит использовала 50 тысяч долларов не по назначению.

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2) Этот закон не имеет отношение к нашему делу.

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3) Они внесли некоторые изменения в законы, касающиеся полномочий правительства.

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4) В данной статье не информации по нашему делу.

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5) Они возбудили иск против этой компании.

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