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party incurs loss or injury. If the insured person is also covered, this is called comprehensive or fully-comprehensive insurance.
In Britain, driving without third party insurance is an offence which can carry a fine of up to £5,000, and a possible ban from
driving. The adjective is uninsured) 6. disqualified (if a driver in Britain commits a motoring offence, he / she receives points
on his / her driving licence. If 12 or more points are accumulated over a three-year period, the driver is disqualified. Some
offences carry more points than others) 7. fixed penalty (a set of fines and penalties established in advance, usually for
minor motoring offences) 8. comply (for example, drivers should comply with traffic lights and signs, they should comply
with the direction of a traffic warden, they should comply with pedestrian crossing regulations, etc) 9. defective 10.
drink driving (in Britain, this automatically carries a ban from driving of at least one year, unless the driver has mitigating
circumstances, or if a ban from driving would cause the driver exceptional hardship – for example, the loss of his / her job)
11. seatbelt (this rule includes front- and back-seat passengers)
Other driving offences in Britain include: driving while disqualified; driving without road tax; using a hand-held mobile phone
while driving; failing to stop after an accident; failing to report an accident within 24 hours; driving with too many people in
a vehicle, or with an otherwise overloaded vehicle; failing to supply police with an alcohol, blood or urine specimen when
asked; driving while unfit through drugs; driving while failing to notify a disability; leaving a vehicle in a dangerous place,
etc. There are, in fact, at least 60 offences you may commit by driving a motorised vehicle in Britain!
The word in the shaded vertical strip is endorsement (from the verb to endorse, definition 3 in the A & C Black Dictionary of
Law)
People in the law 1 (pages 48 – 49)
Across: 2. lawyer 6. attorney (used especially in the USA) 11. juror 12. judiciary 13. advocate 15. testator (a woman
who makes a will is called a testatrix) 16. barrister* 19. appellant 20. convict (we also say prisoner. Convict can also be
a verb: to convict someone of a crime) 21. foreman (called the foreman of the jury) 23. probation (somebody who has
been put on probation is called a probationer) 24. suspect (this can also be a verb: to suspect someone of something)
26. witness (this can also be a verb: to witness something) 27. judge* (this can also be a verb: to judge someone)
Down: 1. client 3. claimant (we can also say litigant. Claimant has replaced the word plaintiff) 4. jury* 5. beneficiary
(someone who gives money, property, etc, to others in a will is called a benefactor) 7. magistrate* (also called a Justice of
the Peace, or JP for short) 8. adjudicator (arbitrator has a similar meaning) 9. tortfeasor 10. prosecutor 14. defendant
(also called the accused in criminal cases) 17. applicant 18. solicitor 22. coroner 25. counsel (for example, defence
counsel, or counsel for the prosecution)
* For more information on barristers, magistrates, judges and juries, see People in the law 2 on page 50.
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For reference see Dictionary of Law 4th edition (A & C Black 0-7475-6636-4).

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People in the law 2 (page 50)
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Barristers: In England and Wales, a barrister is a member of one of the Inns of Court (= the four law societies in London to
which lawyers are members); he or she has passed examinations and spent one year in pupillage (= training) before being