Griffith College Dublin

February

Patricia Harvey & Jacintha Victor John valiantly represented the Law Faculty, Griffith College Dublin, in the Quarter Finals of the Advocate all-Ireland Business Law Challenge sponsored by McCann Fitzgerald.

February was a busy month for Patricia & Jacintha who also represented Ireland and the Law Faculty in the prestigious Inner Temple Intervarsity Moot (London).

The following teams took part:

University of East Anglia, Birkbeck, University of London, Birmingham City University,University of Bradford, BPP, University of Chester,College of Law, University of Coventry, Griffith College, Dublin, Kaplan, University of Kent, King's College London, University of Kingston, University of Leicester, University of Manchester,University of Nottingham,University of Plymouth, University of Reading,

University of Sheffield, University of Southampton, University of Sussex, University College London, Queen Mary, University of London, University of Warwick

David Langwallner, our Dean supported and guided the team in the hope of bringing the 'gold' back to Ireland as well as partipating significantly in the judging of the various rounds in which GCD did not take part. David was singled out for special thanks by the organisers for his significant contribution.

As usual, the GCD team did us proud, but decided to allow the trophy to stay in the UK!

March

The Griffith Law School held its first Internal Mooting competition. Six teams were chosen from many applicants.

The schedule was arranged so that all teams would moot three times and then the two teams with the overall highest scores would go through to the final.

The Judges for the rounds were Martin Collins B.L, Taidhg  Dorgan B.L, Siobhan Leonard, Roderic O'Gorman, Joanna Joyce B.L, Barry Vickers and Nadine Conlon Byrne.

The standard was extremely high and all teams received excellent feedback from the judges which they found very helpful. All of the judges were very complimentary about the teams and this reflected in the scores awarded, with there being only 5 points in the difference between first and last in the overall scores!

Following lunch the two teams who battled their way to the final were Tash Van Eerden and David Smyth for the Applicant, and Shawn Blundell and Malachy Ryan for the Respondent.

The Impressive judging panel for the final consisted of Catherine Lucey Neale B.L, Gerard Danaher S.C and our own Dean of Law and stalwart supporter of the Mooting Society, David Langwallner B.L.

Following a lengthy deliberation, Mr Danaher S.C commended both teams on their arguments and professionalism. He also stated that he was thoroughly impressed with the standard of the speakers. He then announced that the winning team were Sean and Malachy. They are to be heartily congratulated on their performance.

April

Mooting News
Korede Esho and Changiz Durani took part in the inaugural NUI Moot Over Friday and Saturday 15^th and 16^th April. They were faced with an extremely tough problem question but battled their way to the final on Saturday afternoon where they argued for the respondent against a very competent NUI Maynooth team, in front of the Head of the Law Faculty, a Solicitor from MOP and Justice McMenamin of the High Court.

Despite a brave effort they narrowly lost out on bringing the cup home to Griffith College. They both performed admirably throughout the competition under heavy questioning from the judges. It is a great achievement for them to have got to the final of their very first competition.

Mooting 2011

October

Claire comes on board to provide inspiration and leadership to the Mooting Society

A number of meetings with interested students were organised. On the basis of this a strategy was devised whereby students could take part in a number of internal and external competitions.

November

Round One of the 'The Advocate' competition took place. In round one the Griffith team was up against UCD. The following teams progressed from the Regional Heats to the Quarter Finals:

Patricia Harvey & Jacintha Victor John, Griffith College Dublin
Matthew Morrow & Gavin White, University College Dublin
Donal Scott & Patrick Longworth, University College Dublin
Rebecca Russell-Carroll & Bridget English, Trinity College Dublin
Lisa Kelly & Christine Lynch, University College Dublin

Jason Heron & Rachel Dean, Queen's University Belfast
Séamus Keating & Cillian Pléimeann, NUI Galway
Brian McCormick & Redmond Arigho, University College Dublin

December

December saw a flurry of activity in the Mooting Society. Much of this centred around organisation of both the teams and paper work for the Advocate and Inner Temple competitions.

January

The Mooting Society took a well deserved break for everyone to concentrate on their examinations and building snowmen!