Professional Documents
Culture Documents
2009
LEGAL ENGLISH TEST
A. LISTENING
Listen to the following presentation and choose the correct answer:
1. How is a criminal case born?
a. by a criminal investigation
b. by complaints addressed to a judge
c. by a letter addressed to the President
2. Who is entitled to take the first steps in a criminal investigation?
a. the neighbor of the victim
b. the law enforcement officer
c. the judge
3. What is the duty of the law enforcement officer after conducting the investigation?
a. to determine whether or not there is a crime
b. to go home and watch TV
c. to write a report for his superior
4. What will happen if there is a probable cause between the author and crime?
a. the accused is beaten
b. the accused is arrested and he will face trial
c. the law enforcement officer will testify against the author
5. Who is entitled to continue proceedings if the law enforcement officer is not sure
whether or not there is a probable cause?
a. the district attorney or the state attorney
b. the same law enforcement officer
c. the priest of the detention facility
6. At the end of proceedings who makes the final decision?
a. a Grand Jury
b. the judges of the Supreme Court
c. the district attorney or the state attorney
B. READING
Match the following fragments (7-12) with the corresponding sentences (A-F):
8. The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal has appointed a British lawyer to represent Radovan
Karadzic if the former Bosnian Serb leader continues to boycott his trial when it resumes
in March, according to a document released Friday. The U.N. court named Richard
Harvey, a lawyer with experience in The Hague representing war crimes suspects from
Kosovo.
10. Intel had complained to the European Ombudsman alleging two things. First that the
Commission had failed to take minutes of a meeting with a senior Dell executive held on
23 August 2006, even though the meeting directly concerned the subject-matter of the
Commission's anti-trust investigation of Intel. Second that the Commission encouraged
Dell to enter into an information exchange agreement with micro-chip producer and Intel
competitor AMD thus giving AMD access to information contained in the Commission's
investigation file.
11. The Czech Constitutional Court has lifted the last major obstacle to the entry into
force of the Lisbon Treaty. On November 3rd 2009 it handed down a second finding that
ratification of the Lisbon Treaty by the Czech Republic did not violate its constitutional
provisions. The Constitutional Court declared the petition to review the Treaties of Rome
and Maastricht as inadmissible as those Treaties were unaffected by the process of
ratification of the Lisbon Treaty.
12. The Court stated that according to the Directive, the seller is to be liable to the
consumer for any lack of conformity in the goods at the time when they are delivered.
Where goods are not in conformity, the consumer is entitled to require the seller to repair
the goods or to replace them – in either case free of charge – unless that is impossible or
disproportionate.
C. ENGLISH IN USE:
a) Choose the best word to fill each gap:
D. WRITING:
Write a letter of application in response to the following internship advertisement:
Text 1.
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against
Women (CEDAW), adopted in 1979 by the UN General Assembly, is often described as
an international bill of rights for women. Consisting of a preamble and 30 articles, it
defines what constitutes discrimination against women and sets up an agenda for national
action to end such discrimination.
The Convention defines discrimination against women as "...any distinction,
exclusion or restriction made on the basis of sex which has the effect or purpose of
prejudicing or nullifying the recognition, enjoyment or exercise by women, irrespective
of their marital status, on a basis of equality of men and women, of human rights and
fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural, civil or any other field."
E. SPEAKING:
Text 2.
The case came to the Court of Justice on a reference from the Irish High Court.
There were four cases before the Irish court concerning non-EU Member State nationals
that arrived in Ireland and applied for asylum. In each case the application was refused.
While residents in Ireland, the four asylum seekers married citizens of the Union who did
not have Irish nationality but who were residents in Ireland. None of the marriages was a
marriage of convenience. After the marriage, each of the non-EU spouses (the asylum
seekers) applied for a residence permit as the spouse of a EU citizen. The Minister for
Justice refused the applications on the grounds that the spouse did not satisfy the
condition of prior lawful residence in another Member State.
E. SPEAKING:
Text 3.