Web Legal National Mooting Competition

"So you want to be an Advocate"

1. All law students studying at English and Welsh law course providers of 18+ years of age are eligible to take part. They will become "Applicants" of the Mooting Competition. This includes LLB, GDL, LPC, BPTC, Masters in Law and PhDs in Law and all variants of these courses. Web Legal has the right to reduce, enlarge or amend the entry requirements for the Web Legal National Mooting Competition.
2. All potential Applicants are divided according to their law course provider. In order for the Applicant to progress to the first moot round proper they must file an essay. The different course providers have been placed in essay rounds and students must answer the appropriate essay to that essay round. This is not a course provider vs course provider competition. Students are not representing their course provider. Web Legal are merely using course providers as an organizing framework.
3. Web Legal has organized the essay and first rounds according to course providers but course providers are not associated with Web Legal or our National Mooting Competition "So you want to be an Advocate".
4. All essay entries submitted must be on Microsoft word, have the Applicant's name, email address and course provider as a footer on each page and be emailed with the subject appropriate to their course provider allocation. For example, students from The College of Law (Bloomsbury) must have the subject "LON01 entry" on their email. All essay rounds have different essay questions and cut off dates. Applicants failing to adhere to these rules will be automatically disqualified from the moot and may not apply again.
5. When the cut off date for essay entries has finished Web Legal will choose the best essays up to a maximum of 20. In relation to the winning entries of the essay round the decision of Web Legal is final.
6. The winning entries of the essay round will be placed into up to 10 teams of 2 by Web Legal. Web Legal will attempt to place Applicants into a team with another Applicant from the same course provider but this may not be possible.
7. Although Applicants will be in teams, success will be judged on individual merit. Individual Applicants will be chosen as winners and will be placed in further teams on each round.
8. The 1st round will be at various venues around England and Wales. For example, there will be 6 London rounds, 2 Manchester rounds and 1 Welsh round.
9. All the moot questions / cases will be emailed to the winners at least 1 week before the moot itself.
10. 1st round mooting applicants must send to the venue their bundle at least 2 days before the moot - this needs to be posted and addressed to the judge of the moot. Failure to supply a bundle will mean automatic disqualification. If any Applicant is in doubt about the judge or location they should ask Web Legal who will be able to address the issues. If the venue is at a hotel rather than judges chambers, or the judge is not resident at the venue then the Applicant should ask Web Legal as to the address to send the bundle to.
11. Applicants will need two copies of the "bundle" with the following in it (1) their Skeleton Argument on the front (2) The full print out of any case that you want to rely on making sure every page is included (3) Any relevant pages of practitioner text books such as Chitty on Contracts, Archbold on Crimes etc. Applicants should highlight all the relevant passages which they may wish to rely on and also must paginate the bundle.
12. If Applicants are unable to make the date of the 1st round moot they should inform Web Legal so that the next runner up will be allocated a place. Unfortunately, due to the inability to re-schedule, if Applicants are sick and unable to attend on the evening of the moot they will forfeit their chance to progress.
13. Applicants must get to the location early as any Applicant causing a delay to the proceedings may be disqualified from the competition. Applicants should bring with them some water, although refreshments may be supplied by Web Legal.
14. During the 1st round moots, Applicants will have 5 minutes to speak. This time limit will be strictly adhered to by way of a stop-clock. Judges may ask questions but due to time pressures this will be kept to a maximum of 1 question per Applicant and a maximum of 1 minute to answer.
15. If the Applicant has a problem or there is anything which the Applicant needs to explain to the judge then the Applicant should inform judge.
16. Web Legal nomenclature:
    1. The judge must at all times be referred to as "My Lord or Ladyship"
    2. The moot venue is the "Court"
    3. There will be a team of Applicants and a team of Respondents
    4. To refer to your team member the Applicant will say "My learned friend"
    5. The law is the Applicant's submission, not a fact therefore the Applicant must state : "It is my submission that....."
    6. All other nomenclature will be advised to the Appliant.
17. 2 winners will be chosen by the Judge at the end of the moot after a short interval for the judge to decide the winner. The judge's decision is final.
18. 2nd Round. The dates and locations will be announced shortly. 2 winners will be announced at each location.

    SCR01	Location:	London
    Winners of LON01
    Winners of LON02
    Winners of LON03
    SCR02	Location:	London
    Winners of LON04
    Winners of LON05
    Winners of LON06
    SCR03	Location:	Manchester
    Winners of MAN01
    Winners of MAN02
    Winners of LIV01
    SCR04	Location	Newcastle
    Winners of LEE01
    Winners of PRE01
    Winners of NEW01
    SCR05	Location	Bristol
    Winners of WAL01
    Winners of BRI01
    Winners of NOT01
    SCR06	Location	Cambridge
    Winners of CAM01
    Winners of EAS01
    Winners of MID01
    SCR07	Location:	Oxford
    Winners of OXF01
    Winners of SOU1
    Winners of MID02
    SCR08	Location:	Scotland
    Winners of SCT01
    Winners of SCT02

    This means a total of 16 people through to the semi-finals.

19. Semi Finals. The dates and locations will be announced shortly. 2 winners from each location will be chosen by the judge to go through to the final.

    SCR01 Winners vs SCR02 Winners

    Location: London

    SCR03 Winners vs SCR04 Winners

    Location: Manchester

    SCRO5 Winners vs SCR06 Winners

    Location: Cambridge

    SCR07 Winners vs Scotland Winners

    Location: Oxford

    This means a total of 8 Applicants will go through to the final.

20. During the semi final applicants will have 10 minutes to speak. They must also file a skeleton argument with Web Legal by email at least 1 week before the moot itself. The judge will choose 2 winners from each semi final to go onto the final. The decision of the judge is final.
21. Semi final winners will then be allocated to the final. The final will be held at the UK Supreme Court banqueting hall. There will be 8 Applicants in total competing in the final.
22. The Applicants will have 15 minutes each to speak. They must also file a skeleton argument with Web Legal by email at least 1 week before the moot final itself. The judge(s) will choose 1 winner and 1 runner up. The decision of the judge is final.
23. All the moots may be filmed by Web Legal and each Applicant by entering into the mooting competition agrees to be filmed and waives all rights to his image during the mooting contest.
24. All contestants must wear appropriate (business like) dress at each moot. Foul language and other unprofessional behavior at the moot will cause disqualification for that person.
25. Each team will work together and will be given a separate mooting issue on the same fact pattern for each round. Should any contestant wish to complain about their teammate, they should email staff@weblegaleducation.com who will make a decision and may disqualify the other contestant and organize a lone moot. Any decision made by Web Legal will be final.
26. Web Legal will endeavor to give contestants mooting issues that are appropriate for them i.e. if the Applicant has not studied EU law, Web Legal will endeavor not to give that Applicant an issue on mooting law. However, this may not be possible and it will be Web Legal's ultimate decision in relation to which issue is given to the Applicant.
27. Each judge will be an academic or practitioner in law and Web Legal have endeavored to ensure that the mooting issue is relevant to the judge in question, however, this is not always possible and Web Legal reserves the right to issue any mooting question.
28. Locations, times and dates for each mooting venue are of course subject to change at short notice. All Applicants need to ensure that they maintain close contact with Web Legal in order to ensure that they know the location for the moot. Web Legal will not be responsible for any loss any Applicant may incur as a result of a mistake by Web Legal in relation to location, times and dates.
29. The finalists will all receive a ticket to a Web Legal UK event of their choosing. The runner-up will receive a ticket to a Web Legal International Academic Holiday of their choosing. The Winner will receive a ticket to a Web Legal International Academic Holiday of their choosing plus £1,000. The prizes have no cash value (apart from the Winner's prize of £1,000) and cannot be transferred or sold. All the terms and conditions of the various Web Legal products will still apply to the prize winners.
30. Each application by way of essay to the national mooting competition is authorization for Web Legal to contact the Applicant by email, telephone or letter in order to progress the mooting competition or to inform the Applicant of Web Legal products and services which Web Legal considers may be of interest to the Applicant.