BarTalk June 2004
Volume 16, Number 3

Another awesome mooting year

By Christine Mingie

The UBC Faculty of Law and the UVic Faculty of Law completed another very successful year of competitive mooting, with the following results:

International Competitions
UVic won the 2004 American Bar Association (ABA) Client Couns-elling Competition National Championship in Florida, and moved on to win second place internationally at the Louis M. Brown International Client Counselling Competition in Scotland. UVic’s winning students were Maria Barrett-Morris and Darin Reeves. Law students participated from Australia, Canada, Cayman Islands, U.K., Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand, South Africa and the USA. UBC won the regional competition and participated at the national competition in Florida.

UBC participated for the first time in the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot (the “Vis”) held in Vienna. UBC placed in the top one- third in 44th place, competing against 135 law schools from 42 countries. UBC second-year student Wei Kiat Sun was awarded an “honourable mention” as top oralist at the Vis. The Vis is the most prestigious private international law moot. It was won this year for the first time by a Canadian law school (Osgoode).

UBC and UVic participated in the Canadian elimination round of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. UVic finished fourth among 17 participating Canadian law schools. UBC finished in eighth place.

UBC participated in three additional international moots this year: the ABA Negotiation Competition (UBC advanced to the finals in Texas); the International Competition for Online Dispute Resolution (ICODR) Arbitration Moot; and the ICODR Mediation Moot. UBC’s advocate team won first place in ICODR arbitration and Moot and its arbitration team placed fourth.

National Competitions
At the national level, UBC placed first for the fourth year in a row at the Canadian Corporate Securities Law Moot. Teams members were Shannon Salter, Lisa Kerr, Catherine Anderson, Adam Kaminsky and Dino Rossi. Two UBC team members won second and third best oralist.

UBC placed first at the Canadian Labour Arbitration Competition. Team members were Jesse Nyman and Ryan Anderson.

UVic placed first at Canada’s oldest national competition – the Gale Cup Moot, held in Toronto. UVic also won the Cory Factum Prize for best facta. Team members were Cameron Elder, Adam Perry, Aidan Cameron and Gordon Buck. UBC also participated in the Gale.

UBC won best facta award at the Wilson Moot, held annually in Toronto. UBC and UVic also participated in the bilingual Laskin Moot and in the Kawaskimhon Aboriginal Moot.

Regional Competitions
Several local moot competitions were held including the B.C. Law Schools Competitive Moot, the Western Canada Moot Competition (MacIntyre Cup) and the Peter Burns Moot. UBC won the B.C. Law Schools Competitive Moot this year.

The CBABC congratulates UBC and UVic for a succesful mooting year.

Christine Mingie is an associate with Lang Michener.

This article was published in the June 2004 issue of BarTalk and is subject to the copyright by the British Columbia Branch of the Canadian Bar Association, 2005, all rights reserved.