Law students Melanie Lafresiere, Jas Cheema and Tom Bishop have successfully applied for a grant of £3,000 from the Student Projects Grant Scheme to help cover travel costs for a trip to Sri Lanka in August where they will compete in the 11th LAWASIA International Moot Competition 2016.
Accompanied by Kent Law School’s Deputy of Director Johanne Thompson, it will be the second year a team from Kent have entered the competition. Last term, final year Law LLB students Orestis Anastasiades, Elena Savvidou and Lizzie Virgo (pictured above with Johanne) secured a top ten finish in the 10th LAWASIA International Moot Competition 2015 held in Australia in November.
The annual moot is organised by LAWASIA, an international organisation of lawyers’ associations, individual lawyers, judges and legal academics in the Asia Pacific region; the chair of its Moot Standing Committee is Kent alumnus Raphael Tay, a partner at Chooi & Company in Kualar Lumpur.
Kent Law School runs an intensive and wide-ranging mooting programme; in recent years the Law School has entered teams in the OUP/BPP Moot, the English Speaking Union Moot, the Jessup International Law Moot, the Oxford French Law Moot, and the UK Student Law Association Moot.
Pictures of Orestis, Elena and Lizzie competing in Sydney have recently been posted on LAWASIA’s Facebook page.