Exercise 14. Complete the diagram. Look at Ex. 13 to help you
Exercise 15. 
Complete the table with words from the texts A and В and related forms. Put a stress mark in front of the stressed syllable in each word. The first one has been done for you.
| Verb Noun - event Noun - person | ||
| or action | ||
| 'sit | 'sitting | |
| appeal | ||
| hear | ||
| try | ||
| claim |
Exercise 16. Match the two parts of the sentences and complete the gaps with words from the table above. Pay attention to the grammatical context. There is more than one possibility for three of the gaps.
1. The ……….. courts can a. a court of first instance.
2. An appellant must get b. normally …………in the Crown Court.
3. In a civil action, a …….. who c. reverse or uphold decisions of lower courts.
has suffered
4. Magistrates generally ……… d. harm or injury seeks a remedy.
cases of petty crime as
5. Indictable offences are e. leave to ……….. before taking a case to a
higher court.
Exercise 17. Draw a diagram of our system and explain the court structure.
Exercise 18. Listen to the news report and fill in the gaps.
Yesterday morning Gregory Briggs appeared in Shellsby Crown Court 1) ……… of robbery. The judge 2) ……….. him to ten years in prison.
Briggs was 3) ……….. last May as he was trying to rob Lloyds Bank in Shellsby. One 4) ……… told reporters that Briggs had run into the bank holding a 5) …….. and threatened to shoot everyone unless the manager gave him all the money in the safe. Fortunately 6) ………… Gary Thomas, who happened to be in the bank at the time, was able to grab Briggs’ 7) ……… before he had a chance to hurt anyone.
As Briggs walked into the 8) ……. yesterday morning with his lawyer he 9) ……….. having broken the 10) ……… and told reporters that he was 11) ……….. However, after hearing the witnesses and seeing the 12) ……. supplied by the bank’s security cameras, the jury quickly came to the conclusion that Briggs was 13) ……...
Last night Police Chief John Brown praised Thomas for his brave 14) ……. of the violent 15) ………. and for 16) ………. what might have turned into a tragedy.
Exercise 19. Listen to Chief Inspector Ronald Lewis advisingpeople on how to protect themselves from certain types of crime and fill in the table below.
| mugging | · carrying a personal …………. · attend …………..classes |
| kidnapping | · teach children …………. · if approached by strangers, they should ……… · if you can afford it, hire a ………… |
| car theft | · fit in …………system · park in an …………… car park · make sure your car is securely …………. |
Exercise 20. Complete the diagram.
Exercise 21. Courts can be distinguished with regard to the type of cases they hear. Match each of the following types of court (1-9) with the explanation of what happens there (a-i).
1. appellate court (or court of appeals, appeals court)
Crown court
High court
Juvenile court
5. lower court (or court of first instance)
6. magistrates’ court
Moot court
Small-claims court
Tribunal
a. This is where a person under the age of 18 would be tried.
b. This is the court of primary jurisdiction, where a case is heard for the first time.
c. This is where small crimes are tried in the UK.
d. This is where law students argue hypothetical cases.
e. This is where a case is reviewed which has already been heard in a lower court.
f. This is where cases involving a limited amount of money are handled.
g. This is where serious criminal cases are heard by a judge and a jury in the UK.
h. This is where a group of specially chosen people examine legal problems of a particular type, such as employment disputes.
i. This is usually the highest court in a jurisdiction, the court of last resort.