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CONTENTS UNIT
1. AN INTRODUCTION TO LAWS UNIT
3. CHALLENGES OF THE LEGAL SYSTEM UNIT
7.CIVIL PROCEDURE AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
CIVIL PROCEDURE AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE UNIT
12. A LAW FIRM STRUCTURE AND PRACTISE UNIT
14. IMPRISONMENT: RETRIBUTION OR REHIBILITATION |
REVIEW units 7-8 1. Match
the word/phrase to its definition.
2. Do the quiz. 1. The rules on jury eligibility are set out in the ______ ___ ____ as
amended by the Criminal Justice Act 2003. 2. Which of the following are ineligible for jury service? a) Members of Parliament. b) Those with a mental
disorder. c) Police officers. d) Judges. 3. Which of the following are
criteria for jury service? Please select all that apply. a) Must be aged at least
18. b) Must be a British
national. c) Must be ordinarily resident
in the UK. d) Must be registered to
vote. 4. Juries are responsible for
deciding the verdict in less than 5% of all criminal trials in England &
Wales. a) True b) False 5. Jury waiver... a) describes
the situation where the defendant can request trial without a jury. b) is widely available in many Commonwealth
countries, such as Australia and Canada.
c) is available in England & Wales, on
request by the defendant. d) is available in England & Wales, but
only where the trial judge gives their approval. 6. When a defendant in a Crown
Court trial is from an ethnic minority, they can insist that three members of
the jury are also from an ethnic minority. a) True b) False 7. The power of the jury to
acquit a defendant in defiance of the law and evidence indicating a guilty
verdict is known as ____ ______. 8. According to the Senior Courts Act 1981, which cases are suitable
for jury trial in the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court? Please select
all that apply. a) Libel and slander. b) Fraud. c) Private nuisance. d) False Imprisonment. 9. According to s.8 of the Contempt of Court Act 1981, it is contempt
of court to obtain, disclose, or solicit any particulars of statements made,
opinions expressed, arguments advanced, or votes cast by members of a jury in
the course of their _____________. 10. Section 17 of the Juries Act 1974 permits majority verdicts.
Assuming a normal Crown Court jury of 12 people, what is the minimum number
of jurors needed to agree on a guilty verdict? a) 11 b) 10 c) 9 d) 8 Video. You are
going to watch Marlon Peterson talking about criminal justice reform. 1. Fill in the missing information after watching
the video. She wrote: «When I _________ famous, I will tell everyone that I know
a hero named Marlon Peterson». Heroes rarely look like me. In fact, I'm what garbage looks like. No,
not the most appealing way to open a talk or start a _________, and perhaps you have some questions going through your
head about that. Why would this man say such a thing about himself? What does
he mean? How can someone view him as a hero when he sees himself as garbage? I believe we learn more from questions than we do from answers.
Because when we're questioning something, we're _________ in taking in some
sort of new information, or grappling with some sort of ignorance that makes
us feel uncomfortable. And that's why I'm here: to push us to question, even
when it makes us uncomfortable. My parents are from Trinidad and Tobago, the southernmost island in
the Caribbean. _________ is also home to the only acoustic instrument
invented in the 20th century: the steel pan. Deriving from the African drums
and _________ from the genius of one of the ghettos in Trinidad, a city
called Laventille, and the disregard of the
American military ... Well, I should tell you, America, during WWII, had
_________ bases set up in Trinidad, and when the war ended, they left the
island littered with empty oil drums -– their trash. So people from Laventille repurposed the old drums left behind into the
full chromatic scale: the _________ pan. Playing music now from Beethoven to
Bob Marley to 50 Cent, those people literally made music out of garbage. Twelve days _________ my 20th birthday, I was arrested for my role in
a violent robbery attempt in lower Manhattan. While people were sitting in a
coffee shop, four people were shot. Two were killed. Five of us were
arrested. We were all the products of Trinidad and Tobago. We were the «bad
immigrants», or
the «_________ babies» that Trump and millions of Americans easily malign. I
was discarded, like waste material – and justifiably so to many. I eventually served 10 years, two months and
seven days of a prison sentence. I was sentenced to a decade of punishment in
a correctional institution. I was sentenced to irrelevance –
the opposite of humanity. Interestingly, it was during those _________ in prison that a series
of letters redeemed me, helped me move beyond the darkness and the guilt
associated with the worst moment of my young life. It gave me a sense that I
was useful. She was 13 years old. She had wrote that
she _________ me as a hero. I remember reading that, and I remember crying
when I read those words. She was one of over 50 students and 150 letters that I wrote during a
mentoring correspondence program that I co-designed with a friend who was a
teacher at a middle _________ in Brooklyn, my hometown. We called it the
Young Scholars Program. Every time those young people shared their stories
with me, their struggles, every time they drew a picture of their favorite
cartoon character and sent it to me, every time they said they
_________ on my letters or my words of advice, it boosted my sense of
worthiness. It gave me a sense of what I could contribute to this planet. It
transformed my life. Because of those letters and what they shared with me, their stories
of teen life, they gave me the permission, they gave me the courage to admit
to myself that there were reasons – not
excuses – but that there were reasons
for that fateful day in October of 1999; that the trauma associated with
living in a community _________ guns are easier to get than sneakers; that
the trauma associated with being raped at gunpoint at the age of 14; that
those are reasons for me why making that decision, that fatal decision, was
not an unlikely proposition. Because those _________ mattered so much to me, because writing and
receiving and having that communication with those folks so hugely impacted
my life, I decided to share the opportunity with some friends of mine who
were also _________ with me. My friends Bill and Cory and Arocks,
all in prison for violent crimes also, shared their words of wisdom with the
young people as well, and received the sense of relevancy in return. We are
now published writers and youth program innovators and trauma experts and gun
violence prevention advocates, and TED talkers and – and good daddies. That's what I call
a _________ return of investment. Above all else, what building that program taught me was that when we
sow, when we invest in the _________ of people no matter where they're at, we
can reap amazing rewards. In this latest era of criminal justice reform, I often question and
wonder why – why is it that so many believe that only those who _________
been convicted of nonviolent drug offenses merit empathy and recognized
humanity? Criminal justice reform is human justice. Am I not human? When we
invest in resources that amplify the relevancy of people in communities like Laventille or parts of Brooklyn or a ghetto near you, we
can literally create the communities that we want. We can do better. We _________ do better than investing solely in law
enforcement as a resource, because they don't give us a sense of relevancy
that is at the core of why so many of us do so many harmful things in the
pursuit of mattering. See, gun violence is just a visible display of a lot of
underlying _________. When we invest in the redemptive value of relevancy, we
can render a return of both personal responsibility and healing. That's the
people work I care about, because people work. Family, I'm asking _________ to do the hard work, the difficult work,
the churning work of bestowing undeserved kindness upon those who we can
relegate as garbage, who we can disregard and discard easily. I'm asking
_________. Over the past two months, I've lost two friends to gun violence, both
innocent bystanders. One _________ caught in a drive-by while walking home.
The other was sitting in a café while eating breakfast, while on vacation in
Miami. I'm asking myself to see the redemptive value of relevancy in the people
that murdered them, because of the hard work of seeing the value in me. I'm
pushing us to _________ our own capacity to fully experience our humanity, by
understanding the full biography of people who we _________ easily choose not
to see, because heroes are waiting to be recognized, and music is waiting to
be made. 2. After
watching the video say in what context the following words and phrases were
mentioned. ·
when I become famous ·
Trinidad and Tobago ·
the Caribbean ·
African drums ·
evolving from the genius of one of
the ghettos in Trinidad ·
Laventille ·
the American military ·
WWII ·
from Beethoven to Bob Marley to 50
Cent ·
Trump and millions of Americans
easily malign ·
a teacher at a middle school in
Brooklyn ·
Young Scholars Program ·
fateful day in October of 1999 ·
Bill and Cory and Arocks3. Say if these statements are true or false.
Marlon Peterson said: 1. Heroes
rarely look like me. 2. I
believe we learn more from questions than we do from answers. 3. We're
invested in taking in some sort of new information, or grappling with some
sort of ignorance that makes us feel uncomfortable. 4. My
parents are from Trinidad and Tobago. 5. Trinidad
is also home to the only acoustic instrument invented in the 20th century:
the steel pan. 6. Deriving
from the African drums and evolving from the genius of one of the ghettos in
Trinidad, a city called Laventille. 7. America,
during WWII, had military bases set up in Trinidad, and when the war ended,
they left the island littered with empty oil drums – their trash. 8. Playing
music now from Beethoven to Bob Marley to 50 Cent, those people literally
made music out of garbage. 9. Twelve
days before my 20th birthday, I was arrested for my role in a violent robbery
attempt in lower Manhattan. 10.
We were the «bad immigrants», or
the «anchor babies» that Trump and millions of Americans easily malign. 11.
She was one of over 50 students and
150 letters that I wrote during a mentoring correspondence program that I
co-designed with a friend who was a teacher at a middle school in Brooklyn,
my hometown. 12.
My friends Bill and Cory and Arocks, all in prison for violent crimes also, shared
their words of wisdom with the young people as well, and received the sense
of relevancy in return. |