Task 6. Read the following sentences and decide what law system (Kazakh or American) they refer to

a) When the President receives a bill from the Congress, he must sign it, and then the bill becomes a law.

b) The Government is exercised by a Prime Minister and his Cabinet.

c) The House of Representatives impeached the President and put him on trial.

d) A new President is 38 years old; he is married and has two daughters.

e) A new draft of the Criminal Code was approved by the deputies of the Mazhilis.

Task 7. Make a presentation about the system of check and balances in Kazakhstan. Use the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan, adopted on August 30, 1995.

CIVIL LAW

Hours

Warming-up

1. What is civil law and public law?

2. Is there a clear distinction between them?

Task 1. Read the following text

CIVIL AND PUBLIC LAW

One important distinction is between private – or civil law and public law. Civil law concerns disputes among citizens within a country, and public law concerns disputes between citizens and the state, or between one state and another. The main categories of English civil law are:

Law of Contracts: binding agreement between people (or companies);

Law of Torts: wrongs committed by one individual against another individual’s person, property or reputation;

Law of Trusts, arrangements whereby a person administers property for another person’s benefit rather than his own Land Law;

Probate Law: arrangements for dealing with property after the owner’s death;

The main categories of public law are:

Criminal Law: wrongs which, even when commited against an individual, are considered to harm the well-being of society in general;

Constitutional Law: regulations of how the law operates and of the relation between private citizen and government;

International Law: regulation of relations between governments and also between private citizens of one country and those of another. [8]

Learn the new words

Task 2. Answer the following questions:

1. What is the main distinction between private and public law?

2. What are the main categories of English civil law?

3. What law deals with binding agreements between people?

4. What is meant under the term “torts”?

5. What law deals with the arrangements whereby a person administers property for another person’s benefit?

6. What are the main categories of English public law?

7. What wrongs does the Criminal law deal with?

8. What law regulates the relations between private citizens and the government?

9. What does International law regulate?

Task 3. Give Kazakh/Russian equivalents to the following words