EBOOKI WYDAWCY
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English in Legal Context
· bogaty zbiór różnorodnych tekstów i ćwiczeń do nauki języka angielskiego dla prawników,
· znakomity materiał do prowadzenia kursów Legal English i samodzielnej pracy,
· przejrzysty podział na rozdziały poświęcone wybranym zagadnieniom i działom prawa (m.in.: profesji prawnika, procesowi sądowemu, prawu karnemu, prawu UE, prawu nieruchomości, prawu handlowemu),
· słownik najważniejszych terminów prawniczych oraz klucz do wszystkich ćwiczeń,
· idealne do doskonalenia praktycznej znajomości angielskiej terminologii prawniczej.
Monika Takeuchi – doświadczony wykładowca języka angielskiego na Uniwersytecie Warszawskim, gdzie od wielu lat uczy języka prawniczego, jak również ogólnego na poziomie zaawansowanym.
Rok wydania | 2013 |
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Liczba stron | 302 |
Kategoria | Nauka języków obcych |
Wydawca | Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN |
ISBN-13 | 978-83-01-19421-5 |
Numer wydania | 1 |
Język publikacji | polski |
Informacja o sprzedawcy | ePWN sp. z o.o. |
EBOOKI WYDAWCY
POLECAMY
Ciekawe propozycje
Spis treści
Wstęp | 9 |
1. LAW AND LEGAL PROFESSION | 11 |
Test yourself | 13 |
Case law in common law systems | 14 |
Judicial precedent | 15 |
Rule of law, judicial review, due process | 17 |
Retroactive law | 18 |
Access to a lawyer | 19 |
Solicitors and barristers | 20 |
Attorney’s duty | 21 |
Charter of Core Principles of the European Legal Profession | 22 |
Principle of privilege | 23 |
No win no fee | 25 |
Notaries | 26 |
Jury | 27 |
2. CIVIL LITIGATION | 31 |
Test yourself | 33 |
Civil Procedure | 34 |
From the judgment in Anthony O’Shea v R (2010) | 37 |
Brandt v American Bankers Insurance | 38 |
Without prejudice | 38 |
Burden of proof in a civil case | 40 |
Supreme Court rules party must pay fees for frivolous claims alone | 41 |
BP v Halliburton | 42 |
From Jodie Bullock v Philip Morris USA, Inc. | 44 |
Civil evidence case | 44 |
Contributory negligence | 47 |
Sean Lane et al. v Facebook, Inc. et al. | 49 |
Product Liability in Poland | 51 |
Guantanamo Petitions | 52 |
3. CRIMINAL LAW | 55 |
Test yourself | 57 |
Contempt of court | 60 |
Habeas corpus | 62 |
Plea bargain | 63 |
Criminal procedure case | 64 |
Types of evidence | 65 |
Self-incrimination | 67 |
Prosecutors | 68 |
Reversal of conviction | 69 |
Police can collect DNA samples from arrestees | 70 |
Extracts from the Resolution of the XVIIIth International Congress | |
of Penal Law 2009 | 72 |
Doli incapax | 73 |
Necessity | 74 |
Consent | 75 |
Judgment and sentence for direct criminal contempt | 75 |
Three strikes law | 76 |
Motion to dismiss | 77 |
4. INTERNATIONAL AND EUROPEAN UNION LAW | 79 |
Universal Declaration of Human Rights | 81 |
Rules of International Court of Justice | 81 |
United Nations Charter | 82 |
Principles of the European Union | 83 |
Excerpts from Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights | 85 |
From Fourth Additional Protocol to the European Convention on Extradition (2012) | 87 |
From Agreement between the European Community and the Council of Europe | 89 |
Cross border disputes | 91 |
European arrest warrant | 94 |
EU succession and wills | 95 |
Jurisdictional immunity of the state | 96 |
ECHR Jurisdiction | 97 |
DNA data ruling | 98 |
European Commission v Poland | 100 |
5. CONTRACT LAW | 103 |
Essential elements of a contract | 105 |
Parts of a contract | 106 |
The language of clauses | 109 |
Employment contract | 111 |
Personal property sales contract | 117 |
Assignment | 118 |
Stock redemption agreements | 118 |
Reading clauses | 120 |
Cases | 122 |
Paul D. Ceglia v Mark Elliot Zuckerberg | 127 |
6. PROPERTY LAW | 131 |
Property case | 133 |
Personal property | 134 |
Popov v Hayashi | 136 |
Real property | 138 |
Real property case | 140 |
Intellectual property | 141 |
Intellectual property assignment case | 143 |
Passing off | 144 |
Breach of confidence case | 145 |
Trade mark case | 147 |
Cease and desist | 149 |
7. BUSINESS LAW | 151 |
Test yourself | 153 |
Fraud and breach of fiduciary duty | 154 |
From the Articles of Association | 155 |
Certificate of Incorporation | 156 |
Purchase and sale of private shares | 158 |
The Code of Commercial Partnerships and Companies | 159 |
A company in Poland | 163 |
Procedure for bankruptcy in the UK | 165 |
Personal bankruptcy now available in Poland | 167 |
Financial regulation case | 168 |
Finance case | 170 |
The debt crisis and the legality of leaving the Eurozone | 172 |
Promissory note | 174 |
8. MISCELLANEOUS | 179 |
Facebook and data protection law | 181 |
Human rights case | 182 |
Civil and criminal proceedings | 186 |
Witness immunity | 188 |
Posthumous reproduction | 191 |
Impeachment of President Nixon | 192 |
Violent video games | 194 |
True or false | 195 |
Match each extract with the type of document it comes from | 196 |
Explain the meaning of each extract | 197 |
9. LETTERS AND FORMS | 199 |
Correspondence | 201 |
Forms | 212 |
10. LEXICAL EXERCISES | 217 |
Word formation | 219 |
Latin terms | 221 |
Formal verbs | 225 |
Prepositions | 226 |
Phrasal verbs in legal context | 228 |
Match the definition with the term it describes | 229 |
Words with special meaning in Legal English | 231 |
Complete the sentence with the correct word | 234 |
Choose the correct option | 242 |
Identify and correct any mistakes | 253 |
Translate into English | 256 |
11. GLOSSARY | 259 |
English – Polish | 261 |
Polish – English | 265 |
ANSWER KEY | 271 |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 297 |