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The law

popular TV series

CSI

The good wife

How to get away with murder

people

a witness

the jury/a juror

the accused/the defendant

a solicitor

an attorney (US)

a prosecutor

a barrister (UK)

law idioms

to run up debts

to have your house repossessed

to be evicted

to get away with murder

the economy at large

prices went up by 10%

there was a lack of cash fow

the Great Recession

there was a credit crunch

the currency collapsed

the housing bubble collapsed in 2008

taxpayers bailed the banks out in 2012

crimes

tax evasion, to evade taxes, tax haven

identity theft

fraud, fraudster

to embezzle, embezzlement, embezzler

burglary, to burgle, burglar

arson, arsonist

processes

to cross examine

to report sb to the police

to sue sb