The Kingsland Cup and Prize Moot

The Kingsland Cup and Prize Moot

Hosted by FTB and sponsored by the Solicitor's Journal, the inaugural FTB Kingsland Cup Public Law mooting competition opened to teams of undergraduate, GDL and BPTC students in November 2011.

With moots covering European, Environmental and Public law, the competition takes place over three rounds.

The first round, which saw 32 different teams judged on their skeleton arguments, has now closed.

The winning teams were:

Alexandra Pardal and Jessica Van der Meer, of City University

Yaaser Vanderman and Andrew Watson, of the Kaplan Law School

Martin Jones and Ben Katz, also of City University

Frances Aldson and David Peter, of College of Law and City Law School

These teams go through to the semi-final, which is to be held at FTB on 30 January 2012. Sir Keith Lindblom has been confirmed as one of the judges.

To see a full list of institutions that participated in the moot, please click here.

To see an article on the first round problem, published in the Solicitor's Journal, please click here.

The two highest scoring teams at the semi-final will go through to the Grand Final, which is being held at the Supreme Court on 12 March 2012. There, finalists will be put to the test by Justice of the Supreme Court, Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood.

Prizes will be awarded to both the runners up and overall winners.

For full details, including the First Round problem and Competition Rules, please download the FTB Kingsland Cup Guide by clicking here.

Sample scorecards for each round of the moot can be downloaded by clicking here.

All queries relating to the FTB Kingsland Cup and Prize Moot should be directed to kingslandcup@ftb.eu.com