University of Otago law students (rear, from left) Alice
Osman, Luke Barrington, Louis Chambers, Society of Otago
University Law Students president Rob Harris (centre), Nic
Blumsky-Gibbs, Sean Conway, Maia Wikaira and (seated, from
left) Alice Selby, Joshua Pemberton and Kate
Lawson-Bradshaw, pictured with an aspiring mooters cup and
president's prize. Absent: Ollie Hornbrook. Photo by Peter
McIntosh.
For the second consecutive year, University of Otago law
students have won the president's prize for the best overall
performance in a national university law competition.
The competition was held during the New Zealand Law Students
Association's latest conference, which was hosted by the
Otago Faculty of Law in Dunedin last week.
Two members of the Otago team, Nic Blumsky-Gibbs and Sean
Conway, won the client interviewing contest, which was one of
several events in the competition.
Gaining second place in the mooting contest were Alice Osman
and Louis Chambers. Another team member, Kate
Lawson-Bradshaw, was second in the witness examination event.
Two other Otago students, Alice Selby and Joshua Pemberton,
also enjoyed success, winning an inaugural second-year
mooting contest, also held during the conference.
Another Otago law student, Maia Wikaira, gained first place
in the National Maori Mooting Competition, held in Wellington
late last week, as part of the annual conference of Te Hunga
Roia Maori o Aotearoa, the Maori Law Society.
Not to be outdone, three other Otago law students, Abby
Suszko, Devon Latoa and Sarah van Bellekom recently won
another mooting competition against a team from the
University of the South Pacific, held during a conference in
Vanuatu.
Society of Otago University Law Students president Rob Harris
said the recent Otago student successes were a "fantastic
achievement" which showed the quality of legal education at
Otago.
Law faculty staff and Dunedin lawyers had also provided
strong support, he said.
- john.gibb@odt.co.nz
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