A 5-unit interactive, online course teaching the essential Legal English terminology regarding claims, litigation and various legal proceedings.
This module provides 3 credits for your Paris Bar Association continuing legal education requirements
- interactive reading exercises
- interactive listening exercises
- vocabulary quizzes
- glossary with definitions
- authentic legal documents
- course certificate upon completion
Course contents
The Claim
Legal English vocabulary needed to describe and present claims and losses (examples: allege, incur, inflict)
Legal Procedure
describing the bodies, people, and procedures in various instances, e.g. courts, administrative bodies (examples: tribunal, panel, venue)
Pleading the Case
vocabulary associated with instituting proceedings, arguing a case and asking for remedies (examples: file, move, refute, plead)
Decisions
describing outcomes and results (examples: deem, remand, quash)
Enforcing the Law
explaining whether behavior complies with or contravenes the law (examples: compel, enforce, injunction, compliance, breach)