Mooting at the School of Law

What is Mooting?

Mooting describes the oral presentation of a response to a complex legal problem against an opposing counsel and before a judge. Mooting is perhaps the closest experience that a student can have whilst at university to appearing in court.

Moots are judged by a panel of three. Mooting judges include academics, real-life judges, barristers and solicitors. We are pleased to say that Judge Maurice Kay QC and District Judge Foster have agreed to once again act as a judge at some of the 2010/11 Mooting Competitions.

Mooting Facilities

Each year the Ed Bram Student Law Society elects a Master and Mistress of the Moot. The Master and Mistress of the Moot then become responsible for selecting, training and equipping students to take part in mooting competitions. The School of Law holds an internal mooting competition each year, a varsity competition with Sheffield Hallam and enters teams into various external mooting competitions. Such is the importance of mooting within the Law School, that thanks to Slaughter and May Sheffield Law School has it's very own recently refurbished moot court so that mooting can be conducted in a court-like environment.

Mooting Success

Each year the Graham Battersby Mooting Cup is awarded to the School of Law's Outstancing Mooter. In 2009/10 this was Henry Messenger.

The School of Law has also recently experienced a lot of success in external Moots including Telders International Mooting Competion, Lincoln's Inn Moot, The Oxford University Press Mooting Competition, and Beechcroft Mooting Competition.