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5th June 1010

Law degree named as best added value degree per year of study

A law degree gives the most added value to a prospective graduate per year of study, according to recent research. 

The research claims that a law graduate can expect to earn up to £245,000 more in a lifetime than a person who does not attend University.

The full report can be viewed here.

28th February 2010

LJMU Law students make competition final

Third year Law Students Joe Carty and Kathryn King have successfully made it through to the finals of the 2010 Client Interviewing and Counselling Competition (CICC).

Read the full story here.

2nd March 2009

LJMU Law students runners-up in competition final

Aimee O'Toole and Johnny Gill - Students from the Law School - were runners up in the National Interviewing Competition held at Anglia Ruskin University in Chelmsford on 28th February. Considering the strength of the competition, and the fact that Anglia Ruskin has won this competition four times in the last five years, this is an especially noteworthy achievement.

The LJMU Law School are now National Negotiation Competition champions, Inaugural Mediation Competition champions and runners up in the National Interviewing Competition - an impressive record we are sure you will agree and a fitting testament to our marvellously skilled students.

29th January 2009

LJMU Law students through to Competition Final

Students from LJMU have moved forward to the national finals of the Client Interviewing and Counselling Competition after winning the regional round, held at Manchester Metropolitan University, on 23rd January 2009.

Aimee O'Toole and Johnny Gill, both 3rd years, will represent Liverpool John Moores University Law School in the final in February, which takes place in Colchester.

They were coached by Sarah Hardy-Pickering and Ian Johnson.

9th December 2008

LJMU Law Students Win International Mediation Event

Students from Liverpool John Moores University Law School have won the International Westminster Mediation Event, held at the University of Westminster on 28th November 2008.

The team of Jennifer Calvert, Aisling Owens and Katherine Kearley beat off competition from several other Universities and law training colleges, together with a team from Drake University, USA, to win the inaugural ADR tournament. The team was coached by Sarah Hardy-Pickering and Ian Johnson, both lecturers from LJMU.

The event was sponsored by The ADR Group, with each of the winning team members being offered a month’s internment at the ADR Group in Bristol, together with a free place on the ADR Group’s prestigious Civil and Commercial Accredited Mediator training course.

Mike Lind, of the ADR Group said in praise of the tournament:

“Well done on organising a truly worthwhile and impressive event. The quality of the students was superb and both Richard and I enjoyed meeting them. Congratulations to Liverpool JMU on winning the overall competition.”

Sarah Hardy-Pickering said of the event:

“We were honoured to have been invited to participate in the inaugural Mediation Competition event held at Westminster and are obviously very delighted to have won the Team Competition. Our top team of Aisling, Jenny and Katherine were fantastically organised, highly competent and very skilled at both mediating and acting as advocate and clients and they thoroughly deserved their stupendous win.”

The event also featured individual competitions, in which the members of JMU’s team acquitted themselves well.

The results of the competition were:

Team Competition
Winner – Liverpool JMU
Runner-Up – Drake University
3rd Place – College of Law, Guildford

Individual Events
Mediators:
Winner – Sjana Whitby (Kingston University)
Runner-Up – Jennifer Calvert (Liverpool JMU)
3rd Place – Adrienne Sula (Drake University)

Advocate-Client teams:
Winner – Adrienne Sula and Meghann Sweeney (Drake University)
Runners-Up – Richard Gray and Susan Hart (University of Edinburgh)
3rd Place – Emily Reninger & Meghann Sweeney (Drake University)

14th July 2008

International Negotiation Competition

LJMU Law School is proud to announce that Law Students Jennifer Calvert and Aisling Owens were named runners-up in the prestigious International Negotiation Competition for Law Students 2008, held in London between the 7th and 11th July.

There were 16 teams from around the world competing for the title, with the team from South Korea named overall winners.

Special thanks also go to Sarah Hardy-Pickering and Ian Johnson for their roles in coaching Jennifer and Aisling.

For further details of the event, please click here.

 

1st June 2008

LJMU Law Graduate Becomes Supreme Court Judge

An LJMU Law graduate, who has recently been appointed a Supreme Court Judge, has thanked the University for helping him to achieve his success. The Honourable Justice Richard Williams graduated from LJMU in 1987. Please click here to read the full story.

 

11th April 2008

LJMU Students Win National Negotiation Competition

We are proud to announce that Law Students Jennifer Calvert and Aisling Owens were declared winners of the 2008 National Negotiation Competition on Saturday 15th March (pictured with LJMU Law Lecturer, Sarah Hardy-Pickering).

They beat 11 other teams in the Final and will now represent the UK in the International Competition to be held in London in July.

For full details of the event, please click here.

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6th November 2007

The Liverpool Law Review Annual Lecture         

The Liverpool Law Review Annual Lecture took place on Friday 2nd November in the Moot Room, John Foster Building.

The School was delighted to welcome Lord Mance as the main speaker at this event. Lord Mance sits in the House of Lords as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and is recognised as one of the UK’s top lawyers.

His lecture was entitled:

“Human Rights, Privacy and the Public Interest - Who draws the line and where?”

Lord Mance was joined by his wife, Lady Arden, who sits in the Court of Appeal. Professor Philip Love CBE DL, High Sheriff of Merseyside welcomed and introduced Lord Mance.

Special thanks go to Huw Thomas for organising and delivering such a high-calibre turn-out.

Further details of the event are avilable here.

Pictured: Lord Mance and Huw Thomas

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19th October 2007

LJMU Law Students Win National Mooting Competition

Not many law students conclude their university career with a trip to Buckingham Palace, but that is exactly what Liverpool John Moores (LJMU) law graduates Satya Chotalia and Sara Anzani will do this month when they collect an award from HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, after winning the 2007 English Speaking Union-Essex Court Chambers National Mooting Competition.

The pair triumphed in the prestigious competition, held in July at the President’s Court of the Royal Courts of Justice in London — a far cry from the more modern academic surroundings of LJMU’s campus.

Under the watchful eye of their coach, LJMU senior law lecturer Eric Baskind, they saw off competition from 64 teams from other universities and walked away with £1,000 each and a highly coveted mini-pupillage at Essex Court. They beat finalists Sarah Tandy and Eve Taylor from Southampton Solent University, who came a close second, having put up a hard fight in the final.

Anzani says: “This competition has been an amazing experience. Mooting has helped me develop my skills and has impacted positively on my studies.”

Chotalia says: “Mooting is fantastic for building confidence and for providing a forum for real analysis of legal problems. I would recommend it to anyone.”

There is no doubt that Anzani and Chotalia’s experiences of mooting will seriously boost their prospects of breaking into the Bar, a profession notoriously difficult to enter. “Somebody at a chambers in the northwest read about the victory in the legal press and went to invite me on a mini-pupillage with a view to then applying for pupillage,” says Chotalia. “That sort of thing would not have happened before.”

And due to the publicity surrounding the event, Baskind himself has been fielding calls from chambers interested in his students. “I have been contacted by three other sets who noticed them and said they wanted to see them,” he says.

Further details on this tremendous achievement can be found here.

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