QUT Mooting

QUT Wins Oxford IP Moot

The QUT team of Srdan Radojevic and Tim Wilkins with Ashleigh Harrold as researcher and Judith McNamara as coach has won the 2009 Oxford International Intellectual Property Moot Competition by beating the University of Edinburgh in the final. Serge also won best individual mooter and the team won best written submissions. Congratulations!

QUT competes in two constitutional law and one philosophy moot competitions

Last week QUT competed in two constitutional law moots. Justen Bersin, Ben Fraser, Christina Surm and Kristi Riedel with John Pyke as coach went to Melbourne for the Gibbs Moot. They won two moots on the first day but unfortunately lost their two moots on the second day. University of Sydney went on to win the final against UNSW. In Canberra Sinisa Butina and Nick Josey won the final of the LexisNexis Moot against University of Melbourne before a bench including Justice Kirby. The previous week end Luke Gamble and Louise Young made it to the final of the ALPSA Moot held at UQ with Louise winning the award for Best Mooter. Well done QUT!

QUT wins Pan Pacific Moot Competition

QUT has won the Pan Pacific Moot Competition in New Zealand. The team consisted of Srdan Radojevic, Ashleigh Harrold, Stephanie Wilkinson and Zoran Gelic with John Pyke as coach. QUT argued the case for the respondent in the final against Bob Sibley's team from USP. Srdan won the award for best mooter in the final and Ashleigh won best mooter in the rounds. Well done QUT!

QUT into the final of the Family Law Moot Competition

The QUT team of Helen Keech, Pierre Lammersdorf and Caitlin Siostrom with Donna Cooper and Iyla Davies as coaches, has made it into the final of the Family Law Moot Competition against Bond University. The final will be held on Friday 26 September in Hobart. Good luck team!

QUT into quarterfinals of AAT Moot Competition

The QUT team of Josh Hill and Sinisa Butina with coach Mark Thomas have made it into the quarterfinals of the AAT Moot Competition next week. Good luck team!

QUT wins International Virtual Moot Competition

The QUT team of Tim Wilkins, Nerida Gosper, Christian Dawson and Aemelia Grounds with Judith McNamara as coach competed in the International Virtual Moot Competition from 1-5 September. There were 7 teams from Australia and the US competing. The problem involved the use of a cleaning robot in Second Life. QUT made it to the final where they argued against the team from Melbourne University. QUT won the competition with Aemelia being awarded best mooter in the final. Congratulations to the team on the result and all their hard work. Well done!

Shine Lawyers Torts Moot

The QUT team of Deirdre Meehan, Mirinda O'Gorman, Louise Young and Nick Josey with Susan Hedge as coach performed very well at the Shine Lawyers Torts Moot competition held at QUT last week. The team finished in fifth position after the general rounds, just missing out on the semi finals. The team had a good win in their last moot on Thursday night against Bond University before an esteemed bench of District Court judges.

In the semi finals ANU beat UNSW and UQ had a win over Macquarie University. The final was held in the Banco Court before Justice Mullins, Richard Jones of the Land Court and Jodie Willey from Shine Lawyers. UQ won a very close moot. Sam Volling from UQ won the award for best mooter in the final and Thomas Harrison from Bond won the award for best mooter in the rounds

Congratulations to all the teams on all their hard work!

QUT competes in Oxford IP Moot

The QUT Moot team of Ben Fraser and Jodie Connolly with Jen Yule as coach travelled to England to compete in the Oxford IP Moot last weekend. Even though the weather was cold, wet and windy the team performed very well in the rounds with wins against the University of Newcastle and the London School of Economics. QUT then faced National University of Singpaore in the quarterfinals. It was a close moot with NUS winning and then going on to the win the final against the University of British Columbia. Ben and Jodie did really well and should be congratulated on working so hard with Ben winning the trophy for Best Mooter and getting to sit on the top table for the awards dinner with the Lord Justices. Also thanks to Tim Wilkins who as researcher for the team worked hard on the written submissions and preparation in the final weeks and thanks to everyone who helped with the practice moots.

QUT competes in India

The QUT moot team of Callan Lloyd, Leith Helsdon and Kit Cameron with Professor Kamal Puri as coach travelled to Mumbai to compete in the DM Harish International Moot Competition. There were 26 teams competing with 13 of those teams from overseas, with QUT being the only team from Australia. In the first moot the team performed very well winning their moot against the team from the India Law School, finishing in the top 10 after the first round. QUT then faced the team from Washington University. Unfortunately QUT lost and Washington went on to ultimately win the competition. The competition was a great experience for the QUT team and the Government Law College were very good hosts. The team should be congratulated for all their hard work preparing for the moot in a short amount of time with very little experience in international law.

QUT finishes third at Jessup Moot

The QUT Jessup Team of 2008 consisted of Matthew Glenn, David Morgans, Christina Surm, Priya Dalal and Troy Blakeney with Dilan Thampapillai as coach. They performed exceptionally well at the competition in Canberra held at the ANU from 29 January until 2 February in which 13 teams participated. After the rounds, QUT was ranked first after winning all their moots against Bond, Macquarie, UTS and University of Melbourne. They won their quarter final against Murdoch but unfortunately lost their semi final against UNSW. UQ was ranked second at the break but lost their semi final against University of Sydney who then went on and won the final. Bond ranked fifth at the break but lost in their quarter final. QUT finished the competition third overall as well as third for the written Memorials. This has been the best result QUT has achieved in the Jessup Competition.