{"id":1375,"date":"2016-02-15T13:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2020-03-20T23:08:12","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T23:08:12","slug":"law-students-secure-travel-grant-for-international-moot-competition-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/law-students-secure-travel-grant-for-international-moot-competition-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Law students secure travel grant for international moot competition in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"

Law students Melanie Lafresiere, Jas Cheema and Tom Bishop have successfully applied for a grant of \u00a33,000 from the Student Projects Grant Scheme<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

Accompanied by Kent Law School\u2019s 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<\/a> in the 10th LAWASIA International Moot Competition 2015 held in Australia in November.<\/p>\n

The annual moot is organised by LAWASIA<\/a>, an international organisation of lawyers\u2019 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Pictures of Orestis, Elena and Lizzie competing in Sydney have recently been posted on LAWASIA\u2019s Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n