Winners standing with Paul Henton (Quadrant Chambers), Ingrid Hu and Michael Biltoo (Kennedys Law)
This year’s LLM students were proud to take part in the annual Swansea University IISTL internal moot competition final, a culmination of all their hard work throughout the year. The event took place in June in London and was graciously hosted by Kennedys Law in their new London office.
The teams consisted of claimants Ralph Mouawad (speaker), Layesh Premraj (speaker) and Prachi Agarwal (researcher), and respondents Opeyemi Omolere (speaker), Vishesh Tyagi (speaker) and Nazmus Sakib (researcher).
After a thorough grilling by our excellent judges, Paul Henton (Quadrant Chambers), Kennedys partner Michael Biltoo (who we have to thank for organising the event for us), and associate Ingrid Hu, the claimants were declared the winners of the moot. Not all was lost, however, for the runners up, as Ms Omolere was selected as Best Speaker and was therefore the winner of the Quadrant Chambers prize for Swansea LLM mooting students. Ms Agarwal also received a second award as she and Panagiotis Moustakas won Best Skeleton during the initial rounds.
Congratulations were offered by all in the audience, who were made up of other Shipping & Trade LLM students, including mooters who took part in the initial rounds of the competition, and staff members Professor Andrew Tettenborn and Angie Nicholas.
Dr Kurtz-Shefford, director of Shipping & Trade Law mooting, said this:
“Both teams did a great job this year. The competition was intense, but they put on a great show and never gave up – they did their university proud. We’re particularly grateful to Kennedys for offering our students such a fantastic experience and employability opportunity. We’re also very thankful to Quadrant Chambers for supporting our students with their mooting prize. Also grateful to my colleagues for supporting the mooting competition and helping me to train students throughout the year.”
Runners up (and best speaker winner) standing with judges.