Police, traffic wardens, etc.
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VOCABULARY EXTENSION II
Choose one of the nouns you found in exercise 1.3. to complete each of these sentences.
What are the nouns associated with these words? Use a dictionary to help you.
Answer these questions about the adjectives above.
1) If someone sues you because they tripped on the stairs in your house, would the case be heard in a criminal or a civil court?
2) Would murder be an indictable or a summary offence?
3) If a contract is binding what does that mean for the signatories, i.e. the people who signed it?
4) How could a fine or other punishment be described if a magistrate is free to decide whether to award it or not?
1) From these verbs abrogate//contravene//impeach//infringe//pervert
2) From these adjectives indictable//discretionary//statutory
1) The ................... is read out to the accused at the beginning of a trial.
2) The magistrates can choose the most appropriate penalty at their own ..
3) Some people consider . of others' rights as being as serious a crime as theft.
4) Many rules relating to employment are set by ........................
5) The trial was criticised by many as a ...................... of justice.
Look at this extract from an information leaflet for students coming to study and live in an English-speaking country. Note the collocations.
| For some traffic offences (1) you have to pay a fixed penalty (2), and this may be an on-the-spot fine (3). Parking tickets (4) for illegal parking are issued by police and/or traffic wardens. If there has been an accident, the police may ask drivers to take a breathalyser (5) test and to make a statement (6) at a police station. Police have limited stop-and-search (7) powers. Surveillance cameras (8) operate in many public areas. A police officer cannot normally enter your home against your wishes without a search warrant (9). |
(1) offence is a formal word for an illegal action
(2) fixed sum payable for a particular offence
(3) fine payable at the time and place that you commit the offence
(4) papers placed on driver's windscreens fining them for illegal parking
(5) an instrument which you blow into that shows if you have consumed alcohol recently
(6) say what happened and sign a copy of it
(7) power to stop people and search them in the street
(8) cameras that record everything that happens
(9) official permission from a judge or magistrate to search your house
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