Te Oe er ey o Tartu butt can also be used by practisi oo Soe eee Liina Soobik Peres na ee Pee i oe ee SenEnglish, Lawyers Liina Soobikluridicum Published by lusidicum Foundation ISBN 9908.9320.09 ited by Poup Peuks ‘Layout and design by Sine Ratso Printed by Pakett Lid, Tallinn “This book has been designed to be wed primarily by students at the Faculty of Law of the University of Tartu butt can also be used by prac: tising layers or anyone else intrested in legal English “The purpose ofthe book is to Introduce the necessary language and also provide some factual knowledge ofthe Estonian legal system. The ‘book provides an introduction to the terminology of different legal branches in is 38 units. Evory unit begins with two warm-up exoresos {ollowed by the main text, The main xls were written by the academic staff of the Faculty of Law or specialists in tho given fiold, Each text, ‘concerning Estonian legislation or EC lave includes basic vocabulary in this field, The exercises following the main ext are meant for acquiring the terms. Supplementary reading, puzzies and mind maps provide pos “bilities to practise legal terms in discussions or enlarge the vocab ‘A mull glossary based on the texts has been added to promote the wn erstanding of Tegal tems. ‘The texts inthe given book are entirely now and additional material has been included. The textbook follows the structure of English fr Lawyers bby }P Grant, L. Kostabi and L. Soobik published with the support of the (Open Estonla Foundation (OEF) in 1994, Ele Sepp isthe co-author of Units 16, 19, 20 and 21. Blo Hangas 1LilnaHlomots, Andreas Kengur, Andres Formas and Kathlin Sander have Contributed tothe book by compiling puzzles and mind maps. Editing ofthe main texts by Interlex Legal Translations Lid. was sup ported by the Open Estonia Foundation. ‘We would like to express our gratitude to lll Kadaste, Hans Koka, ‘Kart Mil Laona Toivonen and Leho Tamvere for thei kind help a8 on sultant Our thanks to Maire Ranno for her proliminary technical propa: ration ofthe texts “The textbook is published in the framework of the competition launched by the Faculty of Law ofthe University of Tartu and the Tuekicum Fou dation with the aim to get new study aids, (ur two years’ work resulted in the publication ofthe present book. ‘Many thanks tall the poopie who have kindly devoted their energy and