BAIL APPLICATION

Structure of Competition

Section 1: Judge Introduction

The Judge will briefly address the parties and prepare to hear the oral submissions. You may be asked to introduce yourself, you can use this suggested phrase:

“May it please the court, my name is [FULL NAME] and this is my Junior Counsel [FULL NAME] and we appear on behalf of the [CLIENT]”

You may or may not be prompted to give appearances. Judges' are instructed to ask for appearances. On the off chance they do not, the DLSS representative will inform you to give appearances.

Section 2: Submissions

You will have 10 minutes to present your arguments to the court. This amount of time includes speaking time for both speakers allocated at your discretion, as well as questions from the Bench.

If you run out of time, you can ask the judge for an allotment of extra time, which they may grant at their discretion. A maximum of three minutes can be requested.