A team of students and alumni runners is taking part in a 300-mile ultra marathon from Canterbury to Amsterdam to raise money for charity.

The University of Kent Athletics and Cross Country Club runners will complete ten marathons in ten days. They are raising funds for the British Heart Foundation and the Kent Opportunity Fund, which supports scholarships, extra-curricular projects and bursaries for our students.

The runners left Canterbury on 15 June to a rousing send-off by Kent students and staff, including Dame Julia Goodfellow, Vice-Chancellor; Graham Holmes, Kent Sport Director; Kim Brophy, Fundraising Volunteer Manager at British Heart Foundation; and Nina Mehmi, Kent Union Vice President (Sport). The Kent Bunny also made an appearance.

Runners from the Athletics and Cross Country Club are well-known for taking on big challenges and, in 2014, completed eight marathons in eight days running from Canterbury to Paris. The Cants2dam run is their biggest challenge yet and one of many exciting student projects taking place during Kent’s 50^th anniversary year.

You can support the team by making a donation via Just Giving  or by texting TEXT CDAM50 £5 to 70070 to donate.

For further information, contact Tim Farrow.

A power outage on campus this Saturday, 20 June, will mean that:

• Templeman Library will close at midnight on Fridayand reopen at 13:00 on Saturday afternoon.
• Park Wood Study Hub will close from 06:00 – 13:00.

Why?

Estates are carrying out an electrical shutdown, which will affect many buildings on campus.

More detail about the electrical shutdown.

All the lifts across the Canterbury campus were put out of service last night due to the problem with the telephone network which affected the emergency phones inside the lifts.

The lifts will be brought back into service as soon as possible.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

If there are any queries please contact the Estates Helpdesk on Extn 3209.

There is currently a fault affecting large numbers of phones across the Canterbury and Medway campuses. We have engineers on site investigating this problem and hope to restore normal service as soon as possible. In the event of an emergency, please ring 07872 990045.

We apologise for the inconvenience.

Barry Vaughan
Telephone Exchange Supervisor

Since 2009, students, staff and alumni have been busy fundraising for a bigger home for the Kent Law Clinic and a new Moot Court.

On Monday 15 June, building work for the new Kent Law Clinic started on the lawn between Eliot Extension and Rutherford College.

The new ‘The Wigoder Law Building’ is planned to open in June 2016 and benefits include:

• Improved learning facilities for students, including ‘The Kennedy Wong Mooting Chamber’ where its users will argue moot points of law in a simulated courtroom scenario.
• The ability to provide even more free legal advice and representation to those in the community who cannot afford to pay.

Read more about the project on the Kent Law Campaign webpages.

Kent Law student Charly Pennington has won a two-week vacation scheme with Magic Circle law firm Clifford Chance.

Charly, who graduates with an LLB Law degree from Kent Law School in July, was one of 20 students across the UK to secure the prestigious prize in the firm’s Intelligent Aid competition.

Now in its fifth year, the annual competition requires students to write an essay on a topical question, with 40 shortlisted entrants being put forward to a two-day final in London.

This year, students were asked to write an essay about the importance of the Rule of Law to a developed economy.

Charly said:

‘We had to write it in 500 words and were encouraged to be creative with how we presented it.

‘I finally settled on it being written as a text message conversation between a lawyer and a client.

‘It definitely paid off though because when I got to the finals, three of the partners that I met remembered my entry better than most.’

Clifford Chance seek to find students who can demonstrate their intelligence, their ability to structure a convincing argument, and their understanding of the practical application of the law.

Later this summer Charly will spend two weeks at Clifford Chance’s offices in Canary Wharf, with one week in Mergers and Acquisitions and the second week in Corporate Finance. She will also sit the firm’s assessment centre tests and be invited to go through the interview process for a 2017 Training Contract.