VII. Translate the sentences from English into Russian.

1. Members of the public or media who are present are expected to remain still and listen to the proceedings in silence.

2. We know that the courts cannot be expected to deal with these kinds of ‘injustice’.

3. Justice therefore faces its greatest danger when people in a position of authority and trust, whose evidence is likely to be believed, conspire together to give false evidence.

4. A seemingly endless procession of men and women come to the RCJ

to have their cases heard.

5. A child who has been convicted of a street robbery is trying to have his conviction and sentence overturned.

VIII. Complete the sentences with the words from the box.

1. served; 2. trying; 3. cases; 4. claiming; 5. punished; 6. provide; 7. staff;

8. appeals (n); 9. guilty; 10. trouble-free; 11. judgment; 12. presenting;

13. sentences (n); 14. criminal; 15. convicted; 16. laws; 17. legal; 18. safe (a);

19. wrongfully; 20. prison; 21. claim (n); 22. obeyed; 23. treated.

1. The judges who are cases and the barristers who are

them are still wearing robes.

2. The court – clerks and ushers – perform their duties very discreetly.

3. There are cases where ordinary people are that they have been unfairly by the state.

4. The Court heard an appeal by men who had already long

of imprisonment for terrorist offences.

5. These people who allege that they were arrested by the police are bringing a against them.

6. The judges of the Court of Appeal hear in criminal and civil

, where the of the first court trying the case has not been accepted.

7. courts judge whether people are of crime; if so, how they should be.

8. These men have been wrongfully and have spent years in

before being released.

9. Any society has a duty to provide its citizens with which, if

, will provide them with a reasonably and environment.

10. The system does not and cannot always justice, whatever that may mean.

IX. Fill in the gaps with the appropriate prepositions from the box.

of (5); on; in (6); throughout; by; from (4); to (4); for (2); against; at;

through; with; despite.

1. The judges are hearing an appeal a man convicted murder.

2. all the difficulties doing justice, it is possible to give citizens, who have been harmed the fault of others, and those who are accused causing that harm, the feeling that we are concerned their misfortunes.

3. These are called the rules of natural justice: an open hearing, an impartial court, giving each side an equal chance to state its case and to call evidence support it before coming a reasoned decision.

4. May I respectfully draw the court’s attention the fact that these men’s convictions were unsafe and the scientific evidence given their trial was unreliable.

5. A woman is freed a sentence life imprisonment killing her husband.

6. Family courts consider the welfare of children, who have the simple need to be protected cruel treatment, or the effects the breakup of their parents’ marriage.

7. A judge is hearing the claim

a widow who is asking

compensation her late husband’s employers, following his death a factory accident.

8. The parents of the Siamese twins object the operation

religious and moral grounds.

9. The courts the RCJ are only a small fraction of the many courts elsewhere London and the country, serving the needs of the communities their areas.

10. There is always a healthy pressure many different groups and individuals to advance and improve the laws and to adapt them the needs of society.