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Table of Contents
ОглавлениеRule of law, judicial review, due process
Charter of Core Principles of the European Legal Profession
Civil Procedure
From the judgement in Anthony O’Shea v R (2010)
Brandt v American Bankers Insurance
Without prejudice
Burden of proof in a civil case
Supreme Court rules party must pay fees for frivolous claims alone
BP v Halliburton
From Jodie Bullock v Philip Morris USA, Inc.
Civil evidence case
Contributory negligence
Sean Lane et al. v Facebook, Inc. et al.
Product Liability in Poland
Guantanamo Petitions
3. CRIMINAL LAW
Test yourself
Contempt of court
Habeas corpus
Plea bargain
Criminal procedure case
Types of evidence
Self-incrimination
Prosecutors
Reversal of conviction
Police can collect DNA samples from arrestees
Extracts from the Resolution of the XVIIIth International Congress of Penal Law 2009
Doli incapax
Necessity
Consent
Judgment and sentence for direct criminal contempt
Three strikes law
Motion to dismiss
4. INTERNATIONAL AND EUROPEAN UNION LAW
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Rules of International Court of Justice
United Nations Charter
Principles of the European Union
Excerpts from Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights
From Fourth Additional Protocol to the European Convention on Extradition (2012)
From Agreement between the European Community and the Council of Europe
Cross border disputes
European arrest warrant
EU succession and wills
Jurisdictional immunity of the state
ECHR Jurisdiction
DNA data ruling
European Commission v Poland
5. CONTRACT LAW
Essential elements of a contract
Parts of a conctract
The language of clauses
Employment contract
Personal property sales contract
Assignment
Stock redemption agreements
Reading clauses
Cases
Paul D. Ceglia v Mark Elliot Zuckerberg
6. PROPERTY LAW
Property case
Personal property
Popov v Hayashi
Real property
Real property case
Intellectual property
Intellectual property assignment case
Passing off
Breach of confidence case
Trade mark case
Cease and desist
7. BUSINESS LAW
Test yourself
Fraud and breach of fiduciary duty
From the Articles of Association
Certificate of Incorporation
Purchase and sale of private shares
The Code of Commercial Partnership and Companies
A company in Poland
Procedure for bankruptcy in the UK
Personal bankruptcy now available in Poland
Financial regulation case
Finance case
The debt crisis and the legacy of leaving the Eurozone
Promissory note
8. MISCELLANEOUS
Facebook and data protection law
Human rights case
Civil and criminal proceedings
Witness immunity
Posthumous reproduction
Impeachment of President Nixon
Violent video games
True or false
Match each extract with the type of documents it comes from
Explain the meaning of each extract
9. LETTERS AND FORMS
Correspondence
Forms
10. LEXICAL EXERCISES
Word formation
Latin terms
Formal verbs
Prepositions
Phrasal verbs in legal context
Match the definition with the term it describes
Words with special meaning in Legal English
Complete the sentence with the correct word
Choose the correct option
Identify and correct any mistakes
Translate into English
11. GLOSSARY
English – Polish
Polish – English
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
