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Mooting
The University of Buckingham is keen to foster in its students an enthusiasm for activities which nurture the 'practical' as well as the 'academic' legal skills. To this end mooting is the ideal endeavour, combining the art of constructing a legal argument in response to a difficult legal problem with the oral presentation of that argument before a judge, thus developing advocacy skills which are an essential tool for any student of law aiming for a career in legal practice. In an effort to replicate the formality of a real courtroom the student mooters all wear gowns which have been generously provided at a very substantial discount for the Law School's benefit by Ede & Ravenscroft.
Students are actively encouraged to participate in both internal and national mooting competitions. The students are well supported in this pursuit both by very enthusiastic, dedicated officers of the Student Law Society Committee and a staff member who fulfills the role of Mistress of Moots. Further support is provided by student volunteers who assist with legal research in relation to the moot problems.
Mooting workshop, August 2010
A mooting workshop, organised by the Student Law Society and run by Rowena Meager (the Law School's Mistress of Moots) was held to help students to appreciate the benefits of mooting. Read more…
Amidst a great turnout spectators watched as the four mooters (Jahkeel Quallo, Ade Haastrup, Darius Gladstone and Mark Flowers) delivered arguments relating to the scope of the criminal defences of necessity and self-defence to a charge of murder. Read more…
Next scheduled mootsThe next internal moot will be on Wednesday 8 September, and will deal with the law of contract.
Mooting news
- Inner Temple Inter-Varsity Mooting Competition 2010 (9 February 2010)
- Law students' mooting successes (21 December 2009)
- ESU Essex Court Chambers National Mooting Competition, Round 1 (17 December 2009)
- OUP/BPP Mooting Competition, Round 1 (23 November 2009)
- Weekly Law Reports National Mooting Competition (12 November 2009)
- Autumn Term exhibition moots (12 November 2009)
- Weekly Law Reports Annual Mooting Competition 2009/10 (12 October 2009)
- Student Law Society's mooting workshop and student moot (20 August 2009)
- Buckingham Law School's mooting victory over University of Oxford (10 November 2008)
- Law students' success in National Mooting Competition (31 July 2006)