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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 3 -4 1. Match the word/phrase to its definition.
2. Do the quiz. 1. The European Court of Justice determines issues
relating to the interpretation or application of the Convention for the
Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1950). a) True b) False 2. The UK Government by signing
the European Convention on Human Rights incorporated the Convention into UK
law. a) True b) False 3. Which of the following
statements accurately describe the relationship between Parliamentary
Sovereignty and the European Convention on Human Rights? Please select all
that apply. a) The European Convention on
Human Rights has been incorporated by Parliament into UK law by the Human
Rights Act 1998. b) UK courts may strike down
legislation which is incompatible with the European Convention on Human
Rights c) The UK courts must read and
give effect to primary legislation and subordinate legislation in a way which
is compatible with the Convention rights in 'so far as it is possible to do
so.' d) Certain UK courts may
declare that legislation is incompatible with the European Convention on
Human Rights. 4. Which of the following
statements most accurately states the approach of the UK courts to the
interpretation of legislation under s.3 of Human Rights Act 1998? a) The UK courts must find an
ambiguity in legislation in order to be able, under s.3, to read the legislation
in a way which is compatible with the Convention rights. b) The UK courts cannot give an
interpretation to the words used in a piece of legislation that the words
will not bear. c) Under s.3 of Human Rights
Act 1998 the UK courts may give a linguistically strained meaning to the
words used in legislation, even reading words in, to ensure compatibility
with Convention rights. d) The UK courts may give the
words used in a piece of legislation a linguistically strained meaning but
cannot read words into legislation. 5. Should a UK court be unable
to interpret legislation under s.3 Human Rights Act 1998 to ensure
compatibility with the European Convention on Human Rights then it may make a
___________ __ _______________. 6.When a bill has
been introduced into Parliament, before its second reading a _________ __
_____________ must be made in writing by the minister in charge of the bill. 7. Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights are not binding on the
UK courts and therefore need not be considered by such courts. a) True b) False 8. Which of the following
statements most accurately reflects the approach to be adopted by a UK court
when faced by a binding precedent under domestic law which conflicts with the
European Convention on Human Rights? a) All courts may ignore the
binding precedent. b) By s6(1)
of Human Rights Act 1998 it is unlawful for a court to act incompatibly with
a Convention right and so a court must ignore a conflicting binding
precedent. c) The superior courts may
refuse to follow a conflicting precedent.
d) Courts lower than the House
of Lords must follow a binding precedent even where it conflicts with a
Convention right; any conflict may be dealt with by the House of Lords. 9. By s.6 of the 1998 Act it is unlawful for a «______ _________» to
act in a way which is incompatible with a Convention right. 10. Which of the following may be considered, in whole or part, to be
public authorities? Please select all that apply. a) A court or tribunal. b) A Parochial Church
Council. c) The police. d) Railtrack. Video. Rachel Botsman: We’ve stopped trusting institutions and started
trusting strangers. 1. Fill in the missing information after watching the
video. Let’s talk about trust. We all know trust is fundamental, but when it comes to trusting
people, something profound is happening. Please raise your hand if you have ever been a host or a
guest on Airbnb. Wow. That’s a lot of you. Who owns Bitcoin? Still a ________ of you. OK. And please raise your hand if
you’ve ever ________
Tinder
to help you
find a mate.
This one’s
really hard to count because you’re kind of going like this. These are all examples of how
technology is creating new ________ that are enabling us to trust
unknown people, companies and ideas. And yet at the same time, trust in institutions – ________,
governments and even churches – is collapsing. So what’s happening here, and who do you trust? Let’s start in France with a
platform – with a ________, I should say – with a rather funny-sounding name, BlaBlaCar. It’s a platform that matches
drivers and ________ who want to share
long-distance journeys together. The average ride taken is 320
kilometers.
So it’s a
good idea to choose your fellow travelers wisely. Social profiles and reviews help
people make a ________.
You can see
if someone’s a smoker, you can see what kind of music they like, you can see if they’re going to
bring ________ dog
along for the ride.
But it
turns out that the key social identifier is how much you’re going to talk in
the car. Bla, not a lot, bla bla, you
want a nice bit of chitchat, and bla bla bla, you’re not going to
stop talking the entire way
from London
to ________.
It’s
remarkable, right, that this idea works at all, because it’s counter to the lesson
most of us were taught as a child: never get in a car ________ a stranger. And yet, BlaBlaCar
________ more
than four million people
every
single month.
To put that
in context, that’s more passengers than the Eurostar
or JetBlue airlines carry.
BlaBlaCar is a beautiful illustration of how
technology is enabling
millions of
people across the world to take a trust leap. A ________ leap happens when we take the risk
to do something new or different to the way that we’ve always done
it. Let’s try to ________ this together. OK. I want you to close your eyes. There is a ________ staring at me
with his eyes wide open.
I’m ________ this big red
circle. I can see.
So close
your eyes. I’ll do it with you. And I want you to imagine there exists a gap between you and something unknown. That unknown can be someone you’ve
just met. It can be a place you’ve never been
to. It can ________ something you’ve ________ tried before. ________ got it? OK. You can open your eyes now. For you to leap from a place of
certainty, to take a chance on that someone or
something unknown,
you need a
force to pull you over the gap, and that remarkable force is
________. Trust is an elusive concept, and yet we depend on it for our
lives to function.
I trust my
children when they say they’re going to turn
the lights out at night.
I ________ the pilot who
flew me here to keep me safe. It’s a ________ we use a lot, without always thinking about what
it really means
and how it
works in different contexts of our lives. 2. After
watching the video say in what context the following words and phrases were
mentioned. ·
hundreds
of definitions of trust ·
risk
assessment
·
go
right ·
it
makes trust sound rational and predictable ·
the
human essence ·
it
empowers us
to connect
with other people ·
I
define trust a little differently ·
a
confident relationship to the unknown ·
this
lens ·
unique
capacity
·
to
place our faith in strangers ·
to
keep moving forward ·
trust
leap ·
put
your credit card details
into a
website ·
to
buy a navy blue secondhand ·
Peugeot
·
eBay ·
«Invisible
Wizard» 3. Say if these statements are true or false. 1.
Technology is transforming the social glue of
society. 2.
There
is a common pattern that people follow, and I call it «climbing the trust
stack». On the first level, you have to trust the idea. So you have to trust the idea of ride-sharing is safe
and worth trying.
The second
level is about having confidence in the platform, that BlaBlaCar
will help you if something goes wrong. And the third level is about using
little bits of information
to decide
whether the other person is trustworthy. 3.
Trust
enables change and innovation. 4.
Trust
has only evolved
in three
significant chapters throughout the course of human history: local, institutional and what we’re now entering,
distributed.
5.
In
the mid-19th century,
society
went through a tremendous amount of change. It’s widely talked about how trust in institutions and many corporate brands has been steadily declining and continues to do so. 7.
Institutional
trust isn’t working
because we
are fed up with the sheer audacity of
dishonest elites. 10.
11.
«The
Economist» eloquently described the blockchain as the great chain of being sure
about things.
4. Discuss
the questions. 1.
Do
men and women trust differently in digital environments? 2.
Does
the way we build trust face-to-face translate online? 3.
Does
trust transfer?
4.
If
you trust finding a mate on Tinder, are you more likely to trust
finding a ride on BlaBlaCar? |