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LIV & Hanover Welfare Services Mooting Competition

Young lawyers are invited to participate in the 2011 Law Institute of Victoria (LIV) & Hanover Welfare Services Mooting Competition.

The Competition has been held for over ten years and provides an invaluable opportunity for the trainees and new lawyers to exercise and improve their advocacy skills. The LIV has been supporting Hanover Welfare Services’ (Hanover) involvement with the mooting competition for over a decade and we are pleased to be bringing this unique opportunity to our members once again.

The two main purposes of the competition are:

• To assist with the professional development of new lawyers

All team members will be invited to attend an exclusive advocacy training session conducted by the Honourable Professor Hampel QC, Chairman of the Australian Advocacy Institute.  Those who attend can claim 1.5 continuing professional development (CPD) points. This session will be held on Wednesday, 11 May 2011 at the Law Institute of Victoria.

• To raise funds to help Hanover continue its work with people experiencing homelessness Hanover is a leading welfare agency that has been working in the area of homelessness for over 40 years. Every year Hanover assists approximately 6500 people with accommodation and support services, of which 2500 are children. To date the competition has raised almost $500,000.00 for Hanover’s work in the community.

Details of the Competition are as follows:

The qualifying rounds of the Mooting Competition will be held in the Old High Court Building on the following Thursday evenings in June from 6 – 7:30pm:

Each qualifying round will be conducted before a single Justice of the Supreme Court.

The two winning teams with the highest scores will go on to compete in the Grand Final on Thursday 28 July 2011 in the Banco Court before a Full Court. All participants will be invited to attend the Grand Final as well and the Mooting Competition Cocktail Party where the Winner’s Trophy and participant certificates will be presented.  

For the first time, firms and organisations with less than 20 lawyers are able to enter individual participants who will be allocated into a composite team comprised of participants from several organisations.

Entry fees (GST inclusive):

• Firms and organisations with 40 or more lawyers - $3,000
• Firms and organisations with between 20 and 40 lawyers - $1,800
• Firms and organisations with less than 20 lawyers - team entry - $1,100
• Firms and organisations with less than 20 lawyers - individual entry - $275

To enter:

• Ensure that your team member(s) are eligible
• Complete and return the entry form to the Young Lawyers Section
• Send cheque for the entry fee to the Law Institute of Victoria.

Please ensure that the cheque is payable to Hanover Welfare Services.

Deadline for entries:  Friday, 29 April 2011

Entry into the Competition is limited and we are and will be accepted strictly on a first received basis. 

Last year, the Grand Final was a tight contest between the teams from Freehills and Maddocks with the Freehills team taking out the winning trophy and Maddocks being awarded the best advocate trophy.

If you have any queries in respect of this competition, please contact the YLS on 9607 9370 or email younglaw@liv.asn.au.

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