Key Vocabulary List. justice, judiciary, legal/judicial system, legal profession, legal rights, law enforcement systemjustice, judiciary, legal/judicial system, legal profession, legal rights, law enforcement system legitimate/ illegitimate (government, owner, claim), legal/ illegal, lawful/ unlawful code, civil code, criminal code law, criminal law, civil law, common law, case law to draw up laws, to pass laws, to apply laws, to break/ violate laws, a breach of law law and order, to maintain law and order, to administer law, to implement law, to abide by the law, law-abiding law-breaker/ law-violator/ law-offender law-suit to try smb, trial, to bring smb to trial/ to put smb on trial, to be on trial/ to stand/ undergo trial, to bring smb back for retrial jury, juror, to serve on a jury, to try smb by jury, to deliver a verdict of guilty or not guilty, to be convinced “beyond all reasonable doubt” lawyer, barrister/ solicitor/ attorney, public prosecutor, judge, Justice of the Peace (JP), “circuit judges”, senior judges, coroner counsel for the defence, counsel for the prosecution low/ high court/ Magistrates Court/ Crown Court/ County Court/ Juvenile Court/ the High Court/ the Court of Appeal/ the European Court of Justice/ the European Court of Human Rights/ coroners’ courts, administrative tribunals justice, to bring smb to justice, to administer justice, miscarriages of justice, to be wrongfully (wrongly) accused/ convicted to bring a civil action against smb/ to sue smb (for libel, slander, negligence, etc.) to take/bring judicial proceedings against smb, to prosecute, to indict, to be found guilty by a court crime, criminal, to commit a crime, crime against society, armed crime crime reduction, reduction in crime rate to confess to a crime to offend, offence, to commit an offence, offender, re-offender, law-breaker criminal case, to refer cases to (the) court, to handle a case, to correct cases, disputed cases, to bring/ take a case to court, to solve a case, to discharge a case, to dismiss a case for lack of evidence to accuse smb of smth, accusation, the accused to defend smb, the defendant accomplice hostage a fundamental principle of law, to uphold the principle of law to be binding on smb to choose at random/ by lot to look into/ to inquire into to catch smb red-handed, to catch smb in the act to be light-fingered Text A
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