LAW SCHOOL newsletter ISSUE 8
TUDENT NEWS... S INSIDE THIS ISSUE...
Stunning Mooting Success!! STUDENT NEWS...
Stunning Mooting Success...
Debating Competition...
Citizens Advice Bureau...
Scholarship...
Student Law Society... The finalists (from left to right). Appellants (Birmingham): Jennifer Kay, Hannah Fountain. Respondents (Chester): Joshua Walters, Sarah Phillips. Local Links and Hopes for the Future... This has been our most successful year to date in the National Mooting Competitions. Joshua Walters and Sarah Phillips represented the Law School at the Inner Temple STAFF NEWS... National Mooting Competition and after 5 hard fought rounds successfully beat Birmingham University in the final Internally Funded of the competition. Part of the winning prize was a mini Research Project... pupillage for both students at 2 Hare Court Chambers in London. Speakers at International Family Law Conferences... Our second team of James Southward and Jack Troup took us to the semi finals of the OUP/BPP National Mooting Research Seminar Series Competition where we were narrowly beaten by City and Annual Lectures... University.
Our internal mooting competition (kindly sponsored by local The Equality Conference... barristers’ chambers Linen Hall Chambers) ran for the second year and the winning team this year was James Quiz Success... Southward and Joshua Walters. Debating Competition
The first year internal debating competition was run for the first time this year with first prize of £100. The competition took place over 3 weeks with the students having to undertake three different debates over that period. The winning team was John Bright and Michael Brough.
Citizens Advice Bureau
As a result of our close relationship with Cheshire West CAB (Senior Lecturer Wendy Steel sits on the trustee management group) a record number of law students have become volunteers on the CAB’s Gateway scheme. This is often the first point of contact that members of the public have with the CAB and the volunteers either provide initial advice or support or in more complex matters arrange for the member of the public to attend the CAB and have a face to face interview with a volunteer.
Scholarship
Joshua Walters was also successful in obtaining a major scholarship from the Inner Temple which will pay his fees and support his other training costs on the Bar Professional Training Course.
Student Law Society
The Society has been active again this year arranging a number of educational and social events which this year included a trip to London. The highlight of the educational talks was provided by Chief Inspector Simon Price of the Cheshire Constabulary who gave a presentation on the running of a recent murder investigation from the first call to the police through to the actual prosecution and trial of the accused. The social calendar of the society was concluded with another successful annual ball at the Queen Hotel and both honorary presidents HH Judge Elgan Edwards and HH Judge Derek Halbert attended. Local Links and Hopes for the Future
The University Law School has retained and enhanced strong links with the local legal sector and we would like to thank the following for their assistance and support this year: DTM solicitors, DWF LLP, Hill Dickinson LLP, Hillyer McKeown solicitors, St. John’s Buildings (barristers chambers), Linen Hall Chambers, Cheshire West Legal Services, Cheshire Constabulary, Chester magistrates court association, the in house legal team of Shop Direct, the College of Law, staff at the local courts and HH Judge Elgan Edwards, Honorary Recorder of Chester and HH Judge Derek Halbert, the presiding civil judge for Cheshire. We apologise to anyone inadvertently omitted.
A number of other links, local and international are being discussed, amongst others the possibility of offering students clinical legal education and a short period studying in a German University.
STAFF NEWS... Internally Funded Research Project
Chantal Davies and Dr. Matthew Garrett have been working on their project on the experience of black, minority and ethnic students at the University. They were the third team in the last four years from the Law School to be successful in securing an internal research grant from the University’s Learning and Teaching Institute.
Speakers at International Family Law Conferences
Professor Roger Kay was invited to speak at the Caribbean Conference of the International Society of Family Law and was part of a small panel delivering in front of all the delegates. Dr. Martha Sampson gave a paper at the same conference.
Both of them have also been accepted to speak at the World Conference of the same society, to be held in Lyon in July.
In the meantime, Professor Kay will be delivering a talk to Cheshire family law practitioners for the Cheshire Family Justice Council in June. Research Seminar services was more reprehensible than other homicides. Series and Annual Professor Penny Booth gave the annual family law lecture and gave an extremely entertaining Lectures and thought provoking presentation on the elderly and the law.
Professor Bob Rains of Pennsylvania State University visited us as part of his sabbatical and gave a very entertaining and informative talk on same sex divorce in the USA as part of the Equality Conference (see next item).
We were also visited by Professor Dr. Barbara Lorinser of Pforzheim Hochschule University in Germany. As well as participating in some scheduled classes she delivered a talk on German Employment Law. The Law School was responsible for organising the Faculty of Social Science Annual Seminar Series this year. The Law School annual lectures were incorporated within this series, together with talks by two visiting overseas colleagues.
The School Annual Lecture, kindly sponsored by DTM Legal Solicitors, was delivered by Professor John Gardner, Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford, was extremely well attended and received. He considered whether in certain circumstances homicides by members of uniformed public
The Equality Conference Quiz Success!!
Chantal Davies helped to co-ordinate a very Finally, a notable victory for five members of successful one day Equality Law Conference staff at the Chester and North Wales Law as part of the University’s Diversity fortnight. Society Annual Law Quiz! Caroline Apart from Professor Bob Rains there were Chappell, Matt Garrett, Phil Hunter, Roger other prominent speakers from the Fawcett Kay and Wendy Steel vanquished nine other Society, Eversheds and the Department of teams of solicitors and barristers in a general Health. The conference also included a knowledge quiz to win first prize. lunchtime moot between University of Chester students and students from the College of Law.