(Mooting) Address

The Mooting Portfolio coordinates and oversees all internal and external competitions (that are not overseen by the Faculty of Law).

In its third year as an individual Portfolio, Mooting has faced several challenges Moving forward, the Mooting Portfolio seeks to re-establish fundamental requirements of its competitions that are critical to holding professional and educational moots. This involves a wide range of re-evaluating and assessing different facets of Mooting. For example, the administrative aspects, such as the rule book, the amendment of the scoresheet to align with well renowned intervarsity moots, how directors contact competitors, to other critical pieces such as the quality of questions and the judging benches

Subject Mooting

Thus far, the Subject Mooting Team has held three moots, including the Opens Torts Law Moot, the Ashurst Opens Commercial Law Moot and the Opens Criminal Law Moot

BLAKE SANCHEZ-CRUZ

While the subject mooting front has faced several challenges from both administrative and practical stand points, it can be safely said that those have been overcome. This new era in mooting for the UTS LSS was made evident by the display at arguably the best moot since the diversion of the Skills and Mooting Portfolio’s, the Opens Criminal Law Moot 2023 The bench consisting of Her Honour, Justice Mitchelmore of the New South Wales Court of Appeal, barrister-atlaw, Phillip Strickland SC, and academic as well as question writer, Kenneth Wu, poignantly challenged the finalists on what was one of the most enthralling questions produced at UTS

The Criminal Law Moot highlighted ongoing changes to mooting that have been taking place behind the scenes and have given promise to what is to be expected for the future, including the continuance of fully in-person moots.