Competitions
The School of Law and Justice is committed to giving its students opportunities to develop advocacy skills and does so by mounting a number of mooting and negotiation competitions throughout the year.
Michael Crowley is the School's Competitions Coordinator. He administers the competitions in conjunction with student competition coordinator, Chrissie Hayter.
Two new competitions
1. Administrative Appeals Tribunal Mooting Competition
2. The McCallum Medal - 2007 Presentation Competition - NSW Young Lawyers invites you to enter an employment law presentation competition. See the 2007 Presentation Competition flyer (PDF 61KB) and the 2007 Presentation Competition Rules (PDF 66KB)
If you interested in any of the above please contact Brenda Bannister-Jones and/or Michael Crowley.
The 2007 Undergraduate Governor General's Essay Competition
For details about the competition and essay questions see the Undergraduate Governor-General's Awards.
If you have any questions please see Michael Crowley, Competitions Co-ordinator.
Proposed competitions for 2007
Semester 1
- IHL moot
- Winners of this competition to be given the option of competing in both the Red Cross moot and the ALSA IHL moot
- Estimated date: week 3
- Tottle Cup (Open mooting competition)
- The problem for this moot alternates between Criminal Law and non-Criminal law problems. This year the problem will be non-Criminal.
- Winners of this competition to be given option of representing ECU at the 2007 ALSA Conference
- Estimated date: TBA
- Client interview
- New competition – winners to be given option of representing ECU at the 2007 ALSA Conference
- Estimated date: week 5
- Negotiation
- Winners to be given option of representing ECU at the 2007 ALSA Conference
- Estimated date: week 6
- Constitutional law moot
- Winners of this competition to be given option of representing ECU at the Sir Harry Gibbs mooting competition in Semester 2.
- Estimated date: week 8
Semester 2
- Paper presentation and essay competitions
- Essay competition on law reform, winning paper presented at seminar later in semester (guest speaker being organised by North Law)
- Estimated date: submit in week 2, presentation depends on date of selected seminar
- Trial advocacy/witness examination
- New competition designed for students who have undertaken Evidence
- Winners of this competition to be given option of representing ECU at the 2008 ALSA conference
- Estimated date: week 3
- Mediation
- New competition designed for students who have undertaken ADR
- Estimated date: week 5
- Debate
- New competition
- Estimated date: week 8
The following competitions are also run by the Law School and may form part of various units:
- Trade Practices moot
- Nicholson shield
- 1st year Statutory Interpretation moot
- LPCC Paper
Printable list of proposed competitions for 2007 (PDF 15Kb).
ALSA - Melbourne 2006
The Australian Law Students Association (ALSA) Conference is held annually, and provides a forum for law students across Australia, New Zealand and Singapore to network and compete with one another in a range of events. This year's ALSA Conference was held in Melbourne during the winter break at which ECU was represented by teams in three of the competitions being run during the week, namely:
- Alicia Maher and Simon Williams in the negotiation;
- Kristin Clohessey and Toby Osmond in the general moot; and
- Tania Wenn and Kade Rosenthal in the International Humanitarian Law moot.