The Constitution provides that a Russian citizen over the age of 25, who has had a higher legal education and experience in the legal profession for a minimum of 5 years may become a judge (Art.119). The Law on the Status of Judges provides for more details.
Judge of the Constitutional Court – 40 years of age and experience of working in legal profession for no less than 15 years;
Judges of the Supreme Court and the Supreme Commercial Court of the Russian Federation – 35 years of age and experience of working in legal profession for no less than 10 years;
Judges of the courts of the constituent entities and the Federal Territorial Commercial Courts – 30 years of age and experience of working in legal profession for no less than 7 years;
Judges of the commercial courts of the constituent entities – 25 years of age and experience of working in legal profession for no less than 5 years.
B) Which statement corresponds to the text?
1. The Law on the Status of Judges sets forth the basic requirements for the position of a judge.
2. A judge is a Russian citizen of 35 years old who has experience of working in legal profession.
3. Any citizen of our country with the experience of 5 years can be a judge.
4. The Constitution of the RF sets forth the basic requirements for the position of a judge
c) Answer the questions:
1)Would you like to be a judge?
2) Which court would you like to work at?
3) What should you do to be a judge of that court?
Exercise 13
Grammar focus 5. Reported speech.
am ,is → was; are →were; do, does →did
look, feel etc.(present) →looked, felt etc. (past)