1. The purpose of the trial is to decide whether the defendant is guilty or not guilty.
2. The objective of the criminal law is to protect the community.
3. Usually the person making the claim wants money to compensate for what has happened.
4. One of the important differences between civil and criminal cases is what is called the burden of proof or the standard to which the case has to be proved.
5. One of the aims of criminal sanctions is to correct and reform crimi-
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6. In criminal law prosecution is required to identify and locate the guilty person and to provide evidence of his guilt.
7. No rule of criminal law is of more importance than that which re-quires the counsel for the prosecution to give his version of evidence.
8. An important aspect of criminal law is that in most crimes the prose-cution has to prove two elements.
9. Burglary is entering a building, inhabited vehicle or vessel to steal, to inflict bodily harm or to do unlawful damage. In English law any entry by an individual into a building with the intent to commit theft is bur-glary.
10. To prove the guilt of the accused beyond reasonable doubt means not to have any doubt about his guilt.
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1. We consider this decision to be unlawful.
2. The public expected the barrister for the defence to give his closing arguments.
3. The accused did not expect the punishment to be so severe.
4. People saw the policeman stop and search the car.
5. The public expected the jury to examine the evidence and give a just and reasonable verdict.
6. To prevent unrest the police ordered the mob to leave the square.
7. The jurors watched the prosecutor exhibit the evidence.
8. The eye witness saw the defendant enter the house.
9. We believe crime prevention to be one of the main functions of the police.
10. The witness heard the offender threaten the victim.
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UNIT 9. CASE STUDY
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Alec Crabtree was found dead at his desk in his study last night. He had been hit on the head with a blunt object. He had been sitting at the desk with his back to the door, and was in the middle of writing a letter. He was found by his wife, when she went in to bring him his bedtime cocoa at 11.15 p.m., but his watch, which had been smashed in the struggle, had stopped at 11.05 p.m.
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The suspects are the people who were in the house at the time:
Mrs Crabtree (the dead mans wife);
Daniel Crabtree (the dead mans brother);
Mr and Mrs Fairfax (old friends of the Crabtrees);
Susie (the maid).
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Useful words and expressions
Using appropriate words and phrases at key moments of a talk makes it eas-ier for your audience to follow what you are saying and to anticipate what you will be saying next. This list will help you to highlight the key stages and to indicate the transitions between the different sections of your talk.
Introducing the talk.
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