TEXT-BASED ACTIVITIES III

1. Answer the following questions:

Which institutions function under the coordination of the Superior Council of
Magistracy?
Where do lawyers perform their activity?
What does the Constitutional Court do?
How is legal aid regulated?
2. Ask questions for the following sentences:
1. Romanian lawyers can ascertain the identity of parties signing specific documents, as
well as assign an official date for the document and its content.
2. Other activities of lawyers include mediation, fiduciary activities on behalf of the
client, offering a temporary registered office for companies.
3. The Superior Council of Magistracy (SCM) is the institution in charge with
guaranteeing the independence of the judiciary.
4. The Ministry of Justice has competences regarding the administration of justice as a
public service, ensuring its good organisation and providing the budgetary resources.
5. The lawyers may be chosen by the clients or appointed ex officio by courts, according
to the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code and Civil Procedure Code which
regulate legal aid.
6. The notaries perform their activity in private offices, providing services to natural and
legal persons, by authenticating/certifying contracts or any other acts, according to the
law.
3. Make sentences with the following words:
to ensure, release, task, profession, disciplinary, to administer, resources
4. Match the words with their definitions: to safeguard, provision, training, deputy,
compliance, to promulgate, to certify
The practice of obeying a law, rule or request
To protect someone or something from being harmed or having problems
To make an official announcement introducing a law or rule
To state officially that something is true, accurate, or of a satisfactory standard
A part of an agreement or law that deals with a particular problem
The process of training people or being trained for a professional activity
Someone whose job is the second most important in a department or organization and
who takes the responsibilities of the most important person in some situations

5. Fill in the blanks with the following words:

prosecutor, assisting, exam, parties, drafting, promote, registered, professional, clients,
legal
The purpose of working as a lawyer in this country is to .. and defend the rights,
liberties
and
legitimate
interests
of
natural
and
..
persons.
A Romanian lawyer can only be .. in one Bar Association and can only exercise his/her
profession through more than one .. type of organization. Requests to register with the
Bar can be done by those registering through an ..; those registering without an exam
(doctors of law, a person who has been a judge, .. , notary, legal counsel for more than
10 years), or a member of a foreign Bar.
A Romanian attorney is able to offer a wide range of legal services such as .. contracts,
legal opinions and reports, consulting services, .. and representing .. before Courts of
Law, Public Notaries, Public Administration and any kind of institutions and third .. .
Additional Reading:
First instance courts are organized at county level and in the districts of Bucharest (there
are one hundred and eighty-eight first instance courts, but eleven are not functioning).
Based on the nature and number of cases, sections or specialized tribunals could be
established within the first instance courts. At first instance court level, the law provides
the organization of sections and specialized panels for minors and family cases. Every
court is conducted by a president with managerial attributions. The sections of courts are
conducted by a section president.
Also, within every court there is a leading college, which decides with regard to the
general problems of the court. With the exception of first instance courts and specialized
tribunals, all others court have judicial personality.
The military courts are organized in military tribunals, the Bucharest Territorial Tribunal
and the Bucharest Military Court of Appeal. The military tribunals have, each, the statute
of military unit, with its own indicative. The military tribunals function in Bucharest,
Cluj-Napoca, Timioara and Iai and the Territorial Tribunal and the Military Court of
Appeal in Bucharest. A prosecutors office is attached to every court of appeal, tribunal
for minors and family cases and first instance court. Similarly, attached to every military
court there is a military prosecutors office.