Courts, trials and legal rights
Society & big questions · C1 · 16 words
About this vocabulary deck
Sixteen C1 words for how the legal system works, from defendant and barrister to acquit, bail and miscarriage of justice.
- Level
- C1
- Topic
- Society & big questions
- Theme
- The world today
- Words
- 16 words with meanings and examples
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First words in the deck
- defendant — the person in a court case who is accused of a crime or of doing something wrong
- plaintiff — a person who brings a case against someone else in a civil court
- prosecution — the lawyers in a criminal trial who try to prove that the accused person is guilty