The Judiciary system

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Today we are having an oral presentation about the Spanish judiciary system. But what do you know about the judiciary system in England and Wales? Click here to see a diagram of the courts.

Task 1.  Your task is to draw a similar diagran of the Spanish courts and compare both systems.

Task 2. Legal English is a minefield; it is full of false friends. Click here to see a compilation of frequent false friends. A word of caution: there are more than 4000 false friends and false cognates (Spanish-English).

Task 3. Video.
In this video four district judges talk about the most difficutl decisions they have to make.

Before you watch
Check the meaning of the following words: bailiff     eviction

Watch the video and write down what the four judges say about the most difficult decisions they have to make.
  • Judge 1
  • Judge 2
  • Judge 3
  • Judge 4
Watch again. There is a link below the video to a transcript if you find this task difficult.


Photo by LexnGer. Flickr.com
We had a very interesting presentation about the Spanish judiciary system. We learnt how the Spanish system works and quite a few new words.

I, personally found the following word puzzling: 
auto de sobreseimiento. After some browsing, I found a translation tool called Linguee, which combines an editorial dictionary and a search engine. You can search hundreds of millions of bilingual texts for words and expressions.

Let me know how you get on with this tool!



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