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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 11 -12 1. Match
the word/phrase to its definition.
2. Do the quiz. 1. The _____ ________ ________ ____ allows lawyers to practice in a
variety of business structures. 2. Which of the following statements is correct? a) A barrister can be
instructed directly by any member of the public in all types of legal
work. b) The Bar Council undertakes
both a representative and regulatory role for barristers. c) Barristers can be sued for
negligence in relation to anything done by them in preparing a case for court
or in court itself. d) All barristers are self
employed. 3. One of the recommendations of the _____ ________ was the creation
of a Legal Services Board as part of the establishment of a new regulatory
framework for the legal profession. 4. The impact of Part 3 of the Legal Services Act 2007 will be to
allow other authorised persons, for instance
non-solicitors and barristers, to undertake «reserved legal activity». a) True b) False 5. Solicitors may not be sued in negligence where a failure to perform
their work with reasonable care and skill has caused loss to someone to whom
they owe a duty of care. a) True b) False 6. Which of the following statements is correct? a) A solicitor may operate as a
sole practitioner, as a member of a partnership covered by the Partnership
Act 1890 or as a member of a limited liability partnership. b) The Legal Services Act 2007
prohibits solicitors from operating in partnerships. c) Solicitors may not operate
as sole practitioners. d) The Solicitors Regulation
Authority sets limits on the size of legal firms. 7. The _____ ________ ________
____ deals with consumer complaints against both barristers and solicitors. Video. You are
going to watch Salil Dudani talking how jails extort the poor. 1. Fill in
the missing information after watching the video. One summer ________ in 2013, DC police detained, questioned and
searched a man who appeared suspicious and potentially dangerous. This wasn't
what I was wearing the day of the detention, to be fair, but I have a
________ of that as well. I know it's very frightening – try to remain calm. At this time, I was interning at the Public Defender Service in
Washington DC, and I was visiting a ________ station for work. I was on my
way out, and before I could make it to my car, two police cars pulled up to
block my ________, and an officer approached me from behind. He told me to stop,
take my backpack off and put my hands on the police car parked next to us.
About a dozen officers then gathered near us. All of ________ had handguns,
some had assault rifles. They rifled through my backpack. They patted me
down. They took pictures of me spread on the police car, and they laughed. And as all this was happening – as I was on the ________ car trying to
ignore the shaking in my legs, trying to think clearly about what I should do
– something stuck out to me ________ odd. When I look at myself in this
photo, if I were to describe myself, I think I'd say something like,
«19-year-old Indian male, bright T-shirt, wearing glasses». But they weren't
including any of these details. Into their police radios as they described
me, they kept saying, «Middle Eastern male with a backpack. Middle Eastern
male with a backpack». And ________ description carried on into their police
reports. I never expected to be described by my own government in these
terms: «lurking», «nefarious», «terrorist». And the detention dragged on
like this. They ________ dogs trained to smell explosives to sweep the area I'd
been in. They called the federal government to see if I was on any watch
lists. They sent a couple of detectives to cross-examine me on why, if I
________ I had nothing to hide, I wouldn't consent to a search of my car. And
I could see they weren't happy with me, but I ________ I had no way of
knowing what they'd want to do next. At one point, the officer who patted me
down scanned the side of the police station to see where the security camera
was to see how much of this was being recorded. And when he did that, it
really sank in how completely I was at their mercy. I think we're all normalized from a young age to the ________ of
police officers and arrests and handcuffs, so it's easy to forget how
demeaning and coercive a thing it is to ________ control over another
person's body. I know it sounds like the point of my story is how badly
treated I was because of my race – and yes, I don't think I would've been
detained if I were white. But actually, what I have in mind today ________
something else. What I have in ________ is how much worse things might've
been if I weren't affluent. I mean, they thought I might be trying to plant
an explosive, and they investigated that possibility for an
________ and a half, but I was never put in handcuffs, I was never taken to a
jail cell. I think if I were ________ one of Washington DC's poor communities
of color, and they thought I was endangering officers' lives, things might've
ended differently. And in fact, in our system, I think it's better to be an
affluent person suspected of trying to blow up a police station than it is to
be a poor person who's suspected of much, much less than this. I want to give you an example from my current work. Right now, I'm
working at a civil rights organization in DC, called Equal Justice Under Law.
Let me start by asking you all a ________. How many of you have ever gotten a
parking ticket in your life? Raise your hand. Yeah. So have I. And when I had
to pay it, it felt annoying and it felt bad, but I paid it and I moved on.
I'm guessing ________ of you have paid your tickets as well. But what would
happen if you couldn't afford the amount on the ticket and your ________
doesn't have the money either, what happens then? Well, one thing that's not supposed to happen under the law is, you're
not supposed to be arrested and jailed simply because you can't afford to
pay. That's illegal under federal law. But that's what local governments ________
the country are doing to people who ________ poor. And so many of our
lawsuits at Equal Justice Under Law target these modern-day debtors' prisons.
2. After
watching the video say in what context the following words and phrases were
mentioned. ·
Ferguson, Missouri ·
police force and their citizens ·
in DC and then take me to a jail
cell ·
in each small cell, there's a bunk
bed and a toilet, but they'd pack four people into each cell ·
on the bunks and two people on the
floor ·
the water looked and tasted dirty ·
at some point, the jail would be
booked to capacity ·
arrested for panhandling in a
Walgreens ·
he's chronically hungry ·
stretches lasted 45 days ·
I met a woman, single mother of
three, making seven dollars an hour ·
It's an ordinary government
building ·
Bill Cosby ·
Sandra Bland ·
to come up with 500 dollars ·
500,000 people ·
who are in jail right now, only
because they 3. Say if
these statements are true or false. Salil Dudani said: 1. I've
met many of the people in Ferguson who have experienced this, and I've heard
some of their stories. 2. In
Ferguson's jail, in each small cell, there's a bunk bed and a toilet, but
they'd pack four people into each cell. 3. When
I asked a woman about medical attention, she laughed, and she said, «Oh, no,
no. The only attention you get from the guards in there is sexual». 4. I
met a man who, nine years ago, was arrested for panhandling in a Walgreens.
He couldn't afford his fines and his court fees from that case. When he was
young he survived a house fire, only because he jumped out of the third-story
window to escape. But that fall left him with damage to his brain and several
parts of this body, including his leg. So he can't work, and he relies on
social security payments to survive. 5. I
met a woman, single mother of three, making seven dollars an hour. She relies
on food stamps to feed herself and her children. About a decade ago, she got
a couple of traffic tickets and a minor theft charge, and she can't afford
her fines and fees on those cases. Since then, she's been jailed about 10
times on those cases, but she has schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and she
needs medication every day. 6. In
our system, whether you're detained or free, pending trial is not a matter of
how dangerous you are or how much of a flight risk you pose. It's a matter of
whether you can afford to post your bail amount. 7. Bill
Cosby, whose bail was set at a million dollars, immediately writes the check,
and doesn't spend a second in a jail cell. But Sandra Bland, who died in
jail, was only there because her family was unable to come up with 500
dollars. In fact, there are half a million Sandra Blands
across the country – 500,000 people who are in jail right now, only because
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