Harry Gibbs Constitutional Moot (2 Viewers)

[BillytheFIsh]

Well... after the organisers only identifying teams by numbers and deciding to give us our opponent's submissions only on the night before, (20 pages a-piece - we're going to have a fun Thursday night), I've finally managed to work out who we're up against in the general rounds this weekend.

They are:

Rd 1: VU
Rd 2: Edith Cowan
Rd 3: Newcastle
Rd 4: Macquarie

Does anyone know who the members are of any of these teams? (obvioulsy not EC or probably newcastle) What's their mooting experience like?

It's good that we're not against UQ in the general rounds, as it's our plan to hopefully beat them in the grand final in front of Kirby. Ahh revenge for the semi-final last year will be sweet.

 

[Frigid]

dude, i'm gonna hijack your thread a bit

The 2005 LexisNexis Constitutional Law Mooting competition will be held at the University of Canberra.

Kirbz has already been secured to Judge the Grand Final which will be taking place at the High Court of Australia. Additional Grand Final Judges may also be appointed to this competition and information representing this will be provided to the registering teams.

rules of competition
registration


ohhh and g'luck to Simon and Gabriel for Harry Gibbs moot!

 

[BillytheFIsh]

They the UNSW team?

We actually faced UNSW last year in the general rounds and I rekon they were the best team we mooted against. Somehow they ended up finishing pretty low down though which shows some of it can be a bit arbitrary.

Hasn't the Lexisnexis one already happened? The dates say soemthing about 26-27 of Sep.

 

[Frigid]

ya they the nu-south team. i fink.

oh er. you're right. oops. mea culpa.

 

[MoonlightSonata]

I'm not too fond of constitutional moots; if only there were some more areas offered for national competitions - like tort/criminal/property, etc.

I suppose with constitutional mooting comps they avoid jurisdiction issues though

 

[Frigid]

I'm not too fond of constitutional moots

add to the fact that it is taught in 2nd year at UTS, and 4th at UNSW, it precludes some students from applying

 

[MoonlightSonata]

What? You go through 3+ years of your law degree before learning about our primary law? Gese... that seems a bit silly. It's not as though it's that conceptually difficult at an under-grad level that you need that long to be prepared for the material.

Um, no we do Constitutional law in 2nd year in the form of Public Law.

However we do it again (in far more depth and detail) in Federal Constitutional Law, in 4th Year.

 

[MoonlightSonata]

Constitutional law is fun! [yes, I'm a sick, sick man]

Well I love virtually all fields of law (tax not included), but in terms of what I prefer for mooting, it's not up on the top of my list. Perhaps because I have not had the advantage of doing FedCon yet, only Public.

Crim moots are hard to do because the appeals generally don't lend themselves to appropriate moot questions. Maybe look into witness exam if this is your interest.

My interest is primarly in contract, property and negligence disputes. But I will certainly be doing witness examination next year.

 

[BillytheFIsh]

I'm not too fond of constitutional moots; if only there were some more areas offered for national competitions - like tort/criminal/property, etc.

I suppose with constitutional mooting comps they avoid jurisdiction issues though

Constitutional law is fun! [yes, I'm a sick, sick man]

There is a national torts moot - the Shine Roach McGowan. which is run in the middle of the year.

Other than that the ALSA general mooting comp has questions on a broad range of areas.

Crim moots are hard to do because the appeals generally don't lend themselves to appropriate moot questions. Maybe look into witness exam if this is your interest.

Although I guess you can have legal argument on a point of law reserved for the Court of Appeal as a question for a crim law moot. Haven't really thought about it before.

 

[BillytheFIsh]

add to the fact that it is taught in 2nd year at UTS, and 4th at UNSW, it precludes some students from applying

What? You go through 3+ years of your law degree before learning about our primary law? Gese... that seems a bit silly. It's not as though it's that conceptually difficult at an under-grad level that you need that long to be prepared for the material.

 

[erawamai]

What? You go through 3+ years of your law degree before learning about our primary law? Gese... that seems a bit silly. It's not as though it's that conceptually difficult at an under-grad level that you need that long to be prepared for the material.

'Public law' is taught in 2nd year which is essentially constitutional law low fat variety. 'Federal constitutional' is taught in 4th year.

 

[MiuMiu]

At UOW we have Public Law A and Public Law B; Public Law A is Administrative Law and Public Law B is Federal Constitutional Law....I never understood why the don't just name them as such....

 

[Lazarus]

Interestingly, I am also a member of the UNSW team for this competition.

 

[MoonlightSonata]

Interestingly, I am also a member of the UNSW team for this competition.

If you end up in the High Court I will be so jealous

But I'm in the semis for junior so I might get to the Supreme Court at least!

 

[Frigid]

have fun and good luck lawboys and girls!?! remember to get an autograph of kirbz for me yeah!?

and james, si vous plait, stop putting neg on at the same time as wit-ex - everybody's abandoning my competition for yours

 

[Meldrum]

I shall see you this evening then!

!!!BOS meat-up!!!*

* - Sorry.

 

[BillytheFIsh]

Interestingly, I am also a member of the UNSW team for this competition.

I shall see you this evening then!

 

[BillytheFIsh]

!!!BOS meat-up!!!*

* - Sorry.

A meat up?

I don't even want to know what that entails.

 

[Meldrum]

BOS meet up = BOS meat*-up

* Meat as in phallis, implies homosexual intercourse.

 

[Frigid]

* Meat as in phallis, implies homosexual intercourse.

i only moot with protection*.

* - namely, authority.