All the teams competed in two preliminary rounds arguing a tort law based scenario kindly prepared by Dr Mark Campbell (Senior Teaching Associate at the University of Bristol Law School). The preliminary rounds were judged by John Livesey (Bristol Law Alumnus) and His Honour Judge Neil Ford QC. The competitors were scored on the basis of their submissions, legal knowledge and advocacy skills; and the best four teams of the preliminary rounds proceeded to the semi-finals. University Law London and LSE knocked out Bristol and Durham in the semi-finals and proceeded to the final round. The finals were judged by, Recorder and Deputy District Judge, Mr Tim Rose (Bristol Law Alumnus and Partner at Sansbury Douglas), who announced that the winner of Bristol’s 4th Annual Intervarsity Mooting Competition was LSE. The final round took place at the School’s brand new moot court at 8-10 Berkeley Square and was attended by Law students.
Bristol was represented by Georgia Tetlow and Claudia Chan (second year LLB students), who gave an excellent moot performance reaching the semi-finals.
Katie Hindley (second year LLB student), the IV rep of the UBLC, organised the competition that was kindly sponsored by Simmons & Simmons for another year.
Dr Sofia Galani, Lecturer in Law and the School’s Mooting Academic Adviser said:
‘It is great to see that our annual intervarsity mooting competition is now in its fourth year. The success of the competition is to be attributed to the UBLC, and especially to our student, Katie Hindley, who worked hard to organise such an amazing day. We are also indebted to our judges who gave up their time to judge our competition and our sponsor. We would like to thank all the teams for their participation and congratulate LSE on their win!’.