LAW4805: Mooting and Advocacy Competition

Workload:
6-12 hours per week before competition.

Prescribed Prerequisites/Recommended Prerequisites:
Prescribed Pre-Requisites

LAW1102 and LAW1104

Assessments:
Participation in seminars (this includes both class participation and engagement in constructive critique of other students' presentations) (10%) AND written submissions (group mark (approximately 1500 words for each of the appellant/applicant and respondent) (30%) AND oral presentation (individual mark, judged in the final practice moot before competition) (60%).

Recorded Lectures:
No.

Past exams available:
No.

Textbook recommended?
No.

Comments:
Semester 2, 2015

We are put into teams and allocated to an external competition, for example, Kirby Contract Moot, Gibbs Constitutional Law Moot or Castan Centre Human Rights Moot.

We had some general practice sessions where we developed our speaking skills, and then we were split up into the allocated teams and worked on the moot problems.

Depending on the timeline of the allocated competition, workload varied widely. It closely follows the deadlines of the competition a team is given. When I did the Kirby Contract Law Moot, my team spent 12-15 hours a week on it for 5 weeks as the written submissions were quite long and we needed to respond to another team’s submissions.

This was my first experience of spending a long time on preparing for a moot, and this was my first external moot at law school.

It would be ideal not to overload when doing this unit as the allocated competitions can have extremely tight deadlines.