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Mooting involves the practice of appellate advocacy before a panel of judges. Teams of two are given a problem scenario on a particular area of law and present both written and oral submissions on their client’s case. It is a great way to hone your legal research and oral presentation skills and is also a lot of fun. On top of that, there is $100 in it for the winning team, along with a trip to Adelaide for this year’s ALSA conference in July!

The competition will be run as follows -

•   Senior Moot: Monday 3rd May - Friday 7 May

•   Junior Moot - Monday 10th May - Friday 14 May

Bear in mind that the Junior Moot is only open to those students who have either not entered the Junior Moot or an external competition through QUT before. Further, there will be a moot run solely for students in first year in the second semester.

Nominate now to competitions@quotals.com - send us the names, emails and contact numbers for you and your teammate, or just nominate yourself and we will find you a partner!

QUOTALS Senior Moot

Every year around April, the Competitions team call for nominations for the Senior Moot Competition. The Senior Moot is for those competitors who have entered other university competitions before. You can also enter this if you have not performed in the Junior Moot, but beware! The competition is tough!

The Senior Moot is an excellent way to apply the law that we have already learnt in lectures and tutorials to a “real life” situation.

Do I need a partner?

Students compete in teams of two, although individual nominations are welcome. We will pair you up with another partner.

What is required?

Each team has 20 minutes to present their argument, and the Appellant has the right to reserve up to 3 minutes for rebuttal.  

You moot in front of a mixture of Brisbane’s legal profession so the utmost professionalism and preparation is required. Business attire is required so dress to impress!

What do I get out of it?

It’s your introduction to mooting at QUT and competitors get the skills and the experience to enter QUT’s Mooting elite that get to enter competitions all around the WORLD! There are also fantastic prizes to be won including cash and the opportunity to proceed to the Australian Law Society Association’s Conference (this year to be held in Brisbane) where the winners will compete against universities from all around Australia and receive a free pass to a week jam-packed full of social events!

How to get involved?

We are also in need of bailiffs for this competition. Being a bailiff (not as burdensome as it sounds) gives you an opportunity to see firsthand how a moot operates and see some of QUT’s finest strutting their stuff in the moot court.

Moot Camp

Every year QUOTALS holds a workshop on the art of mooting.  Come along and hear first-hand tips for mooting from QUT mooting warriors! The workshop is great for Senior Mooters who get a chance to refresh their mooting knowledge at the beginning of the year before try-outs for the QUT Faculty Mooting Programme.

The workshop will:

·         Give some instruction about what mooting is, techniques to use, how to address the Court.

·         A demonstration so you can see what you are and are not meant to do.

·         Practical exercises so you can put everything you’ve learnt into practice!

Although these are the things we aim to show in the workshop it is very flexible and open to participators input. So the night can be adapted if there is anything in particular you want to know more about or learn.

It is highly recommended that those students entering the QUOTALS Senior Moot Competition come along to this – you will gain so much from the experience!

2009

Nothing smells of drama like a security guard, a couple of hammers and a floozy hotel. But between the four senior moot finalists Melissa Edwards, Dan Miles, Luke Gamble and Tim Wilkins, they turned a simple story into a battle of vicarious liability, between being an independent contractor and an employee.

The QUOTALS Senior Moot on the 1^st of May 2009 at the Banco Court in the Law Courts Complex on George St was a battle of preparation, wit and argumentative genius in front of a stellar judging panel consisting of President McMurdo, Justice Applegarth and QUT Professor Bob Sibley. The competition was a success all round with the audience noting that the competition was a hair-breadth apart.

The final concluded with the reigning champs, Luke Gamble and Tim Wilkins taking out the title for the second successive year and Dan Miles winning the prize for Best Speaker.

Thanks to all the teams that participated, our judges and Competitions Directors, Sinisa Butina and Caitlyn White for organising the Competition. For further info email: competitions@quotals.com .