B. Using the text decide what information an American attorney should obtain and what procedural rules he should consider to complete the document

C. Imagine you are an attorney in the USA and your client was damaged by a business partner who broke, for example, a delivery contract. Invent a situation which may arise in real life and:

· explain the merits of your claim to the colleagues (groupmates)

INTERVIEW. Work in pairs.

Choose the role you’d like to play: One person is the interviewer
(a journalist/a defence-lawyer/a friend or some other person of your choice) and the other - the interviewee (a defence-lawyer).

1 The interviewer. Prepare 10 questions to ask your groupmate, who takes the role of a defence-lawyer, about the case s/he is dealing with now.

2 The interviewee. Think about the possible questions his/her character might be asked and prepares answers.

Present the interview to your groupmates in the class.

IV. WRITING

Use the facts and language you have learnt in this Unit to compare the main points of civil procedure in the USA and Ukraine in written form.

The following phrases will help you to describe similarities and contrasts: as compared with, like, unlike, both, both … and, neither of, the same is true of.

V. OVER TO YOU

To practice the language, complete the following activity in your own time.

Write a brief report displaying the main features of civil procedure law in Ukraine to explain stages and the main procedures of a civil case proceeding in your country to foreign colleagues. Consider only the main points of legal proceedings on civil matters.

Unit 2 Appellate Review Section 1 Rules of Appellate Review

I. LEAD-IN

1. Think about the subject of this section and get ready to discuss the following questions:

· What stages of legal proceedings does a civil case usually pass through? Which of them are post-trial ones?

· What types of trial court decisions do you know and which of them can be a subject for appellate review in Ukraine?

· Explain the term “court judgment without appeal”.

· What do you call parties to an appeal in your country? What are their English counterparts?

· What grounds for lodging an appeal are provided for by Ukrainian Civil Procedure Code?

Write out of a dictionary the phonetic scripts of the words given below. Group the words according to spelling differences and compare the pronunciation of bold letters using the phonetic scripts. Memorize the words spelling and their respective pronunciation.

app eal, app ell ate, app eal able, to app eal, app ell ant, app ell ee.