Students will need a B2 level of English to undertake the course.

Students should be able to describe a criminal or civil case from beginning to end, write a Letter ofAdvice and Issue a Claim in English.

Criminal Law

Trials, sentencing, appeals and punishment

Conventional word order in Legal English

Modal Verbs (present, past and future)

Conditional sentences

How to make a PowerPoint presentation

How to give legal advice over the phone

How to express a legal opinion in a formal Letter of Advice

How to issue a claim and ask for damages in a formal letter

Students should be able to describe a criminal or civil case from beginning to end, write a Letter ofAdvice and Issue a Claim in English.

There is a PDF file for every lesson, available from the Teams site, which should be downloaded at least one day in advance. The final exam is the same for attending and non-attending students.

• Face-to-face lessons

  Reading comprehension

  Case Studies

  Listening and video comprehension

• WRITTEN TEST

  In order to be admitted to the final exam, students have to submit two pieces of writing during the course to this address: martin.harper@unimc.it

  (i) a Letter of Advice explaining a lawyer’s professional legal opinion in English, according to the instructions given on page 15 of Lesson 3 and/or page 7 of Lesson 4.

  (ii) a Claim on behalf of a client, demanding damages, according to the instructions given on page 11 and/or page 14 of Lesson 7.

  Each legal letter should be at least one page but not more than two pages in length and should respect the conventions regarding presentation, terminology and rhetorical structure which will be explained during the course.

  
  

  SPEAKING TEST

  Candidates who have successfully passed the written test will then have to make a 10-15-minute PowerPoint presentation explaining a legal case from beginning to end. The case can be either criminal or civil. In a criminal case, the candidate should describe the crime, the victim, the accused, the police investigation, the evidence, the arrest, the charges, the trial, the verdict and the sentence, plus the result of any appeals. Obviously, the case must not be one of those studied during the course.

English

English