INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY summary

Intellectual property is everything what someone wrote, created art or music or invented new technologies and trademarks too. It can not be copied illegally, so intellectual property is protected by copyrights and patents. A patent protects from copying new discoveries and scientific processes. Computer programs,literature,radio and television broadcasts are protected by copyrights. The ownership of intellectual property must be clear,but he or she can pass this right to someone else.Universal Copyright Convention,the Bern Convention and the Patent Corporation Treaty are established to enforce intellectual property law internationally. Illegal infringement of copyrihgts or patent can be criminal offense and people can be issued civil or criminal case.

Judicial institutions of Lithuania and United Kingdom

Judicial institutions are all over the world, but each country has its own and specific system of them, so there are some differences and similarities between one and onother country systems.
UK system of courts is exlusive and original. The highest court is the Hose of Lords, its decisions bind all other courts. The lower instance is Court of appeal ,which is divided into criminal and civil divisions. Such divisions are in the High Court too. Chancery Division handles cases of trust property , Family Division deals with family matters ,and Queen’s Bench Division handles cases of public law and it is appellate institution for lower courts‘. There are the Crown Court which deals with criminal matters and Count Court which deals with civil matters. The last and the lowest is Magistrate Court,which handles civil and criminal cases.
System of Lithuania is a bit different. There are general jurisdiction courts. That is the Highest Court, Appeal Court, County and Vicinity courts. All of them deals with civil and criminal cases and some of them are appellate. There are special administrative courts in Lithuania, which handle cases associated with administrative things.
The main different between UK and Lithuania's systems of courts is that there is the Constitutional Court in Lithuania. It handles cases associated with our constitution and its infringements. The other different is that there is jury in UK which makes decisions. In Lithuania just judges make them.
In conclusion, it is clear that judicial systems of these two countries are quite different,but both of them are effective and professional.

SELF- ASSESSMENT OF ESP LEARNING

WRITING SKILLS. I think that I write summaries quite well,but I have to learn more,to improve my writing skills in grammar and use of appropriate and professional words. ESP vocabulary tests are not very hard,just need to learn words and I perform in them not badly, about 70-100 percents. I do not like dictations, but we write them and my performance in them always are different,sometimes I write them well,but sometimes I make some mistakes in writing and punctuation. I do all contributions to weblogs and this task is not difficult and even interesting.
SPEAKING SKILLS. My participation in class discussions is quite well, I always say something If I have interesting and needful ideas. Presentations always are interesting: to listen to others and to present something myself. I think I make them well and with all requirements. I like speaking in pairs,because my partner usually says me a lot of exciting things and we can share our minds and evaluate ourselfs and that is going on for us not badly.
LISTENING SKILLS. Listening activities in class usually are not very easy for me, because we listen to authentic english and it is hard to understand everything clearly. Listening to podcasts was much harder, but more interesting. I have learned a lot of new words and improved my listening skills. I listen to english outside class too, but it is usually english music and films, but I think it helps to find out new things, especially new words.
READING SKILLS. Home reading is easy for me, because I can use a computer's dictionary and find out words, which I do not know. Class reading is quite well too, because texts usually are interesting and easy. So my performance in reading comprehension exercises is well, because I find all answers if I know the text well. Computer tasks which are related with reading is easy and interesting.
It is really exciting and interesting to learn foreign language for me, especially english, because it will be useful for me in my work and in all my life. I try to study it industriuosly and diligently.