Task 4. Write down the questions to which the words in italics are the answers.
1. A solicitor in Britain belongs to the profession of lawyers.
2. A solicitor prepares cases and submits them to barristers.
3. The Courts Act of 1971 opened a way for solicitors to become circuit judges in the Crown Court.
4. The division of the legal profession into solicitors and barristers is the result of a development which began in 1873 with the Judicature Act and was concluded in 1922 by the Solicitors Act which transferred disciplinary powers to the Law Society.
5. The judge takes no part in the jury’s decision as to guilt or innocence.
6. The number of judges is steadily increasing in Britain.
7. Law magistrates, not professional judges, generally preside over in the Magistrates’ Courts.
8. In the USA today there are more than 350.000 lawyers, two-thirds of them in private practice.
9. The main requirement for lawyers in Britain is to pass the Bar Final examination (for barristers) or the Law Society Final examination (for solicitors).
10. Barristers defend or prosecute in the English higher courts.
11. The highest level of barristers have the title QC (Queen’s Counsel).
12. Magistrates judge cases in lower courts. – _? – Yes, they do.

Task 5.
Underline the Participles, mark the Present Participles with “Present” and the Past Participles with “Past” and translate the sentences into Russian:
1.The tine paid amounted to three hundred dollars. – Past – Уплаченный штраф составил 300 долларов.
2.The executor is the person appointed to “execute” the will, that is to give effect to the wishes expressed in the will by the testator.
3.All criminal trials in Britain are held before a judge and a jury consisting of twelve ordinary people.
4.The police investigating the case are looking for three men.
5.The police never found the money stolen in the robbery.
6.They promised to compensate for all the expenses incurred.
7.The document corrected cannot be accepted.

b)Complete the following sentences using Participles:
1.They considered the application dated 20 September 1999 (to date) 20 September 1999.
2.The other party wanted to change the period . (to establish) previously.
3.The questions.(to mention) were of no importance.
4.The facts.(to underline) by the girl were rather unexpected.
5.The decision.(to make) aroused everybody's interest.
6.The contract .(to make) between these two parties has been completed.
7.The Clause.(to describe) the terms of payment will be discussed tomorrow.
8.The reports.(to reveal) these figures has not been issued jet.