Ex. 1. Read and memorize English proverbs. Find the appropriate Russian equivalents. Use them in the dialogues or in the situations of your own.

Proverb	Paraphrase
1. He that once deceives is ever suspected.	One, who deceives today won’t be believed tomorrow.
2. Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.	Rather be a subject to injustice than perform an injustice.
3. A lawyer never goes to law himself.	A lawyer never goes to the court without a reason.
4. Necessity knows no law.	Necessity always writes its own law.
5. Opportunity makes the thief.	Opportunity induces the thief to steal.
6. The end justifies the means.	The final purpose comes up to the means.
7. There is no effect without a cause.	If there is no fire there is no smoke.
8. When rogues fall out, honest men come by their own.	When thieves fight honest people can feel calm.
9. He that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it.	The person who is guilty thinks that all the people speak about it.

Ex. 2. What types of crimes are described in these situations?

1. He threatened to send the love letters to her husband unless she gave him $500.

2. The telephone box had been smashed and there was graffiti all over the walls.

3. An old man has been attacked and robbed in a city street. He is recovering in hospital.

4. Department stores lose millions of pounds each year through goods being stolen off the shelves.

5. Thieves broke into the house while the family was away on holiday.

6. The young woman was sexually attacked as she walked across the dark park late at night.

7. He watched with satisfaction as the fire he lit burnt down the factory. “That’ll make them wish they’d never given me the sack,” he thought.

8. It was a perfect. It was so good, in fact, that it could even fool an expert.

9. The bank believed her to be trustworthy. They had no reason to suspect that she had transferred thousands of pounds to false accounts.

10. “If you want to see your child again, put $50,000 in an old suitcase and wait for further instructions.

11. George gave the man $50 in return for a small packet of heroin.

12. It was a beautiful day. The sun was shining and people were sitting outside the café enjoining the sunshine. Then the bomb went off.

13. “If only I hadn’t brought these watches through customs,” she thought as she sat crying in the police station.

Ex. 3. Read the accounts of the following seven court cases. In each one, the sentence imposed by the judge has been blanked out. Say what you think the sentence should have been, what sentence should have been imposed. Use the keys given after the extracts.

___ FOR MOB LEADER

TERRY LAST, the ringleader of the Chelseai Mob who planned violence at Britain’s football ground was ___ today.

His Honour Judge Shindler described 24-year-old solicitor’s clerk Last as a man who “glorified and revelled in violence” and who had a “perverted lust for violence.”

The judge, who lists watching soccer as a hobby in his Who’s Who entry, said Last and his gang of four other Chelsea fans had brought terror to terraces forcing ordinary fans to stay away.

FORMER JUDGE SENTENCED OVER DRIVING OFFENCE S

A 61-YEAR-OLD former High Court judge, who gave a false name when stopped for speeding while disqualified, pleaded guilty yesterday to attempting to pervert the course of justice.

The disgrace of former judge Vivian Price, of Redwall Farmhouse, Linton, Kent, was chronicled in Maidstone Crown Court as he _____.

His counsel Mr. George Carman, QC, said that for a former deputy High Court judge to “plead guilty to a charge of trying to pervert the course of justice is a unique situation as far as I know in the courts of this country.” He added that “the law has often reserved its most severe punishment for those in positions of public eminence. Great privilege carries with it great responsibility.”

Miss Heather Hallett, prosecuting, said Price gave his correct date of birth when stopped for speeding but the name of a member of his family. He continued the deceit by pressurising a member of his family to take the blame. He had been disqualified for drink-driving the same year.

The first offence took place on the Canterbury by-pass where he was stopped after driving at 98 mph. He was later stopped again doing 50 mph at Coxheath, near Maidstone, in a 30 mph limit.

For attempting to pervert the course of justice he was sentenced to ___for driving while disqualified the first time. For the second driving offence, he was sentenced to ___. He was also banned from driving for ___.

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