PROCEDURAL LAW UNIT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NICOSIA Laura Eve McBride, Magdalen College, Second Year Undergraduate, BA Jurisprudence, Remote working Work Projects I worked on various projects for the Procedural Law Unit, both large and small, in their research regarding how the law of procedure relates to the ability to dispense justice across the globe. One of the smaller projects was the translation and editing of a brochure document from Greek to English, which had to match the original Greek counterpart and was to attract interest from more English speakers. Another was to research and find possible EU grants that are available for application, which involved looking through a large database and finding a suitable grant as well as potential partners for an application, which was a separate database. My next task was to find a suitable case to write a case note on for publication in a law blog. I followed the direction of my supervisor and found a suitable case, and had to read it in a lot of detail in order to produce a suitable summary. I then wrote a summary and some analysis, which was slightly difficult as this was an area of law I had no prior experience but found super interesting and very practical for future career prospects. My biggest project was working on a comparative research project, which took 2 weeks. A team of academics have created a set of model procedure rules for Europe, and my job was to compare the model rules to the current civil procedure rules of Cyprus (which were brought into force in 1958 with few revisions from there) as well as the incoming rules in Cyprus (which were released about a month before my internship commenced, and are due to be adopted soon). This involved a significant amount of research, background reading, and intense scrutiny of the various different rules, in order to try and make a comparison between three very different systems. The end result of this was to create a report to be built upon by the Unit
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